BAKERSFIELD,
CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944
"Monty"
Cites
Decisive Victory
End of War in Sight,
General Says, as Armies
Close Noose on Paris
From Three Sides;
10,000 Beaten Germans
Give Up to Tankmen
LONDON,
AUG 21. (UP)—Great fires are raging in Paris and students
Are
battling Nazi troops In the city streets, the United Nations
radio
at Algiers said tonight.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Aug. 21. «IE)—The battle
of northwestern
France has ended in complete and
decisive victory for the Allies and the end of the European war is in sight,
General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery declared today as Allied armies laid siege to
Paris from three sides, breached the Seine river line, and swung in from
Normandy to finish off the survivors of the routed Nazi
Seventh Army.
"The Lord, mighty in battles,
has given us the victory," Montgomery said in a stirring order of the day
to the combined British, American and Canadian armies under his
overall ground command.
"The news is very stood from
the war fronts all over the world. The end of the war is in sight. Let's finish
off the business in record time." Montgomery said the past 10 days have
seen the elimination of the German army south of the Seine as an
effective fighting force, and
that "terrific" destruction of Nazi men and armor still is going on
in the bypassed Normandy pocket.
B-29s
Hit
Yawata
Industry
Liberator Sinks Nip
Cruiser; Airmen
Blast Philippines
By J. B. KRUEGER
Associated Press War Edior
Superfortresses jolted the home
islands of Japan with a double punch Sunday, a Liberator sank a 14,200-ton
Japanese cruiser and General MacArthur's persistent airmen finished oft' enemy
aerial defenses guarding the southern
Philippines.
These wounds, inflicted in a week-end
cries of assaults from Japan itself to her empire's outer reaches, proved the.
oriental antagonist was entangled in an air war
potentially as devastating as
Europe has endured.
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