DE GAULLE TOUR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 283, 26 August 1944, Page 7

DE GAULLE TOUR

Delirious Reception LONDON, August 24. General de Gaulle was given a delirious welcome on his first tour of liberated areas in France. Cheering crowds, including many weeping women, stood along the road from Rennes to Le Mans waiting for him to pass. Their enthusiasm compelled him to stop and make a short speech at the village of Sable, where no stop had been arranged.' The crowd at Lc Mans was so dense that General de' Gaulle had to get out of his car and proceed to the town hall on foot. General de Gaulle has toured Brittany and Maine, and he is to go on to Angers and other towns while he waits for the moment to enter Paris. Brought out by the news of the liberation of Paris, which swept right through Normandy, excited crowds of French villagers today arc lining roads eastward along which the British are leaping forward, greeting an endless stream of tanks, armour, artillery and supply wagons pouring toward the front, says the Exchange Telegraph agency’s correspondent with the British at Laigle. For miles along the route people held posies and big bouquets which they threw into every vehicle.