ENEMY FIGHT FIERCELY IN SEINE POCKET

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5

ENEMY FIGHT FIERCELY IN SEINE POCKET

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) AKinAM ’’A (Received August 24, 9.40 p.m.) , LONDON, August 24, Marseilles, the second city and greatest port of France, was liberated yesterday three hours after the announcement of the freeing of Paris. When French forces of Genera Patch’s army entered by the eastern suburbs, they found that the r.r.l« had driven the Germans into a few city buildings and strongpoints near the harbour., t • i j The city people gave the outside troops a delirious welcome even while the isolated strongpoints were being mopped up. Many prisoners have been taken.; . , Toulon has been largely occupied, but the Germans are still stubbornly resisting in strongpoints. ,

General Patton's sweep south-east of Paris had reached a point yesterday 1 5 miles beyond Sens, along the road to Troyes, stated the supreme haadquarters. One correspondent says the Americans have reached the River Marne (east of Paris) at Meaux. The Germans, fighting fiercely with their backs to the Seme, are being pressed into a deep pocket, based now on only 27 miles of the river. A further northward drive from Mantes has turned their left flank. The trapped Germans, however, include comparatively fresh troops, and they are fighting strongly.