PANIC AMONG ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 284, 28 August 1944, Page 5

PANIC AMONG ENEMY

Swimming The Seine

I,ON DON, August 25. “Panic-stricken Germans .threw away their arms and began to swim the, be ne at a ferry crossing below Rouen, saj the Normandy correspondent ot tnc "Dailv Express.” “The Allied air forces have 'been' patrolling the Seine lor two davs waiting for this opportunity. hardly dared to hope., after the erribfit slaughter in the halaise gap, . tb , dfc ,A Germans would panic, but our I “'jK The Germans, .for some reason " 11C J “ k present is not clear, suddenly went back " “Gei‘nian b dead and the wrecks of barges, paddle boats, and ferry. boats litter a 50-mile stretch of the beine between Quillebouef and Barnewlle, uijs Renter's correspondent with the lactical Air Force. "They are the remnants ot German daylight attempts to cross the. river which have been hampered hi hours by the planes ot the Tactical An 1 < Th(i Normandy correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says: "The German bridgehead west of Ibe Seine is grow-, ing tiny and if may be only a matter or hours before the battle for r not begins. The tail cud of the Seventh Army is now crammed in an area between the Seine and Hie Risk’. The German ferries are vulnerable but well oiganized, and (here are good covered approaches to the river, so we may count on the fact that the most valuable German equipment is already across the river. Men and horses can always swim across, and it is not likely, therefore, that the Germans are badly caught this time.”