IN ALLIED HANDS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 152, 29 June 1944, Page 5

IN ALLIED HANDS

MAUPETUS AIRFIELD jf Mopping-L'p Continues In ! Cherbourg Area Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, June 2S. I Mopping-up operations are still i proceeding in the Cherbourg area, I it was learned at Supreme Head-1 quarters to-night- The estimated! total of prisoners as the result of the advance on the peninsula is now between 30.000 and 40.000. Resistance by enemy pockets around Maupetus airfield' five miles east of Cherbourg, has ceased. The I airfield is now in Allied hands. 1 1! There is no further resistance in the i -A city or harbour. b In the north-east corner of the I-A peninsula, the enemy is withstand-1 c ing Allied troops in the Cap de Bar-! f< fieur region. These are probablv j w scattered units. In the north-west I of the peninsula there is still opposi-j v tion in the de la Hague area. I ft particularly at Beaumont, five miles j south-east of the cape. From herejji some enemy artillery is reported. v There are indications that serious d damage has been done to the port tl facilities of Cherbourg. This will A probably necessitate considerable improvisations to obtain the maxi- p. mum value from the port. tl'