Late War News GERMANS CLAIMED IN RETREAT
Struggle In Paris
(By Telegraph.-Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received August 26, .1.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 25.
The Associated Press correspondent with the British forces says that the fast melting pocket along the lower reaches of the Seine now covers an area roughly 30 miles wide at the mouth and 15 miles long. A broadcast this morning from Radio Diffusion De La Nation Francaise reported that General Leclerc’s division inside Paris was crossing the font St. Michael, after moving along Boulevard St. Jacques. Another French broadcast stated that the enemy had been forced on the defensive and was retreating.
The German overseas radio stated this morning: “Fresh lighting against the terrorist groups has broken out in the south and south-western districts of Paris. The Germans have concentrated fresh, heavy armament iu the city, and this is now coming into action.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 283, 26 August 1944, Page 8
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