NEAR BORDEAUX

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

NEAR BORDEAUX

Americans From North?

LONDON, August 23. . The Madrid correspondent of the British United Press says that American armoured patrols which are . re P°^ £} be linking up with the Maquis about miles north-east of Bordeaux ane . believed to be part T °f. the co um n y south from the Loire winch recently passed through Angouleme. American military sources at Washington doubt the reported Allied l audlt '»® at Bordeaux and other points on the French coast along the Bay of Biscay, saying that neither Bordeaux nor any of the Biscay ports are necessary for the operations at present going on in J! rance and that the Allied High Command is unlikely to risk ships and men that could be employed to better advantage elsewhere in France. ran* n The German news agency stated that a small group of American troops landed yesterday near St. Jean-de-Luz, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, after a naval bombardment. Partisans assisted th Tlie n< Exchange Telegraph agency’s Madrid correspondent says that the tiermans have completed the evacuation of the entire Franco-Spanish Iborder. Three Allied aeroplanes landed at Perpignan today after the F.F.I. had liberated the town.