NAZIS REPORT A YANK
DRIVE TOWARD PARIS
High Command
Declares
Another Swift
60-Mile
Eastward Advance
Puts
Doughboys Within
40
Miles of
Capital.
London, Aug-. 16.—(AP)—
The German h i g h c o m m a n d d e c l a r e d to day t h a t Americans in another swift 60-mile eastward advance had s
t r u c k within 40 miles of P a r i s,
b a t t l i n g n e a r
t h e c i t i e s of Dreux
a n d C h a r t r e s d u e w e s t of
t h e capita l .
T h e official communique said t
h i s d r i v e s p r a n g from t h e Alencon a r e a 30 m i l e s above L e M a n s , w i th b i t
t e r f i g h t i n g b e t w e e n
D r e u x a n d C h a r t r e s , 40 a n d 43 miles from P a r i s.
A n o t h e r Nazi b r o a d c a s t i d e n t i f i ed t h e Americans as
reinforced, motorized elements of Lieutenant G e n e r a l George S. P a t t o
n ' s Third
Army, which h a d seized Le Mans a
n d curved n o r t h w a r d , closing on
t h e F a l a i s e g a p . T h i s b r o a d c a s t d e c l a r e d P a t t o n ' s m e n s t r u c
northeast out of Le Mans, t h r o u g h or n e
a r Nogent-le-Rotrou and La Loupe, 35 and_50 miles away, and t h e n on t o t h e 20-mile C n a r t r e s -
D r e u x sector. B i t t e r f i g h t i n g proc
e e d s , especially n o r t h of
C h a r t r e s, it said.
Germans Showing
Confusion at Falaise Gap;
U. S. Seventh Army Is
New Invading Force
Victors
of Sicilian Campaign, Led by
General
Patch, Have Smashed
Mediterranean
Coastal Defenses,
Established
Firm Beachheads and
Are
as Much as Eight Miles Inland
—Enemy
Resistance Continues to
Prove
Relatively Weak.
By EDWARD KENNEDY.
Rome, Aug. 16.—(AP)—
The U. S.
Seventh army, reconstituted after its victorious campaign in Sicily, has smashed
through German costal defenses and established itself firmly in southern
France, penetrating inland as far as eight miles in some places, Allied
headquarters announced
tonight. Casualties
in this newest invasion of Hitler's Europe were officially declared to be
exceptionally light, this resulting from "perfect co-ordination of all
arms and services,"
British
Staff Officer Says Von Kluge's
Withdrawal
from Normandy Pocket
No
Longer Being Conducted According
to
Plan—Believe 50,000
Enemy
Forces May Yet Be Encircled—
New
Entrapment Threatened
Nearer
the Paris Area
By GLADWIN HILL.
London, Aug. 16.—
(AP)—
The Allies
showered steel and surrender leaflets on the German Seventh army's pell-mell retreat
near Falaise today and, by Berlin account, hurled an American column within 40
miles of Paris,threatening a new encirclement of fleeing German troops.
Field dispatches
declared Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge had pulled most of his armor from the
vanishing Normandy front, but his hatch below Falaise had been sliced to eight
miles. Possibly 50,000 Nazis still were fighting rear guard actions within the
dwindling Normandy' pocket.
Allied
planes showered t h e enemy with 2,000,000 safe conduct surrender leaflets.
U. S. RAIDS JAP BASE
IN PESCADORES ISLES
Chungking, Aug. 16. — UP) —
A m e r i c a n L i b e r a t o r s bombed the J a p a n e s e
naval base of Mako in
t h e Pescadores islands today in
t h e first blow at those enemy islands b e t w e e n F o r m o s a a n d China.
The F o r m o s a h a r b o r of T a
k a o in in t h e s o u t h w e s t p o r t i o n of t h
e big
J a p a n e s e island was bombed at n i g h t by L i
b e r a t o r s . All t h e a t t a c k planes were from Major Gene r a l Claire L. C
h e n n a u l t ' s U. S. F o u r t e e n t h air force.
No details were given of the Mako
a t t a c k.
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