CHANNEL COAST
Completely Mopped Up From Zeebrugge To Nieuport
FRENCH TAKE LA ROCHELLE
Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 13. The Channel coast from Zeebrugge to Nieuport has been completely mopped up, says Reuters correspondent with the Canadian First Army. The total number of Germans taken prisoner at Le Havre has now. risen to 8000, which is believed to be the entire garrison. The prisoners are husky and well fed, also fresher and cleaner than any captured since D day. They evidently went to deep shelters during the Allied bombing and shelling and finally surrendered without showing fight. The garrison did not include S-.S. troops. Marseilles radio, operated by Free French Forces of the Interior, stated that the F.F.I, has liberated the port of La Rochelle, north of Bordeaux, to which considerable German forces had returned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 218, 14 September 1944, Page 5
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135CHANNEL COAST Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 218, 14 September 1944, Page 5
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