August 27, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 27, 1944:

 

ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING/AUGUST 27, 1944 –

10,000Nazis

Surrender To

Gen. LeClerc

By JAMES F. KING

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED EXPEDITNARY

FORCE, Aug. 26—(AP)—

The last enemy machinegun was stilled in Paris tonight, French and American infantry 'stalked the last few stragglers and snipers, and

then the Germans admitted they had cleared out of the capital .which they had held under an iron rule since the first summer of the war.

The German garrison in Paris that surrendered to the American corps commander and the French Gen. Jacques

Leclerc was estimated at 10,000 men.

Germans Hurled

Nearer to Reich

By JAMES M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, Sunday, Aug. 27— (AP)—

The Allied armies, having broken across the Seine river barrier on a 200-mile

front, herded the once-indomitable Germans before them today in a battle of pursuit that swirled steadily nearer to the Reich's frontiers.

"The elimination of the German Seventh army as a fighting entity has decided the battle of France," declared Supreme Headquarters in warning the little duchy of Luxembourg and the French frontier provinces of Alsace and Lorraine that they soon "may become a theater of war."

What there is left of the Germans in northwest France is hanging like meat on a butcher's hook, waiting to be cut down," said a high officer at British field headquarters. Southeast of Paris there was brisk fighting on the northeast bank of the Seine between the American bridgeheads at Corbeil

arid Melun as the enemy strove to delay the American advance.

The ragged remnants of the Germans remaining on the southwest bank of the river at its mouth were frenziedly trying to cross in day troops closed enexorably in for the kill. But all the German efforts were of a sporadic nature born of the knowledge of thc.ir ultimate futility.

Only the harried survivors of the Normandy debacle and a handful of divisions of the once-mighty 15th army guarding- the rocket coast stood before the Americans, British and Americans surging: across the Seine over at least six bridge west

and southeast of Paris.

The British in a spectacular 40-mile forced march in six hours forced a crossing of the Seine at Vcrnon, ten miles northwest of the strang American

bridgehead at Mantes, and turned loose another powerful force against the Germans scrambling from their channel forts.