VAST ALLIED RAID ON CALAIS
Guns Still Shell England ” LONDON, September 26. Soon after midday today Lancasters unloaded 3500 tons of bombs on Calais and the gun positions at Cape Gris-Nez. German long-range guns opened up a vicious shelling of the English coast and continued it at intervals for five hours. Frequent sqllvoes of three to four shells rocked the coast. Dover's big guns replied. The British United Press correspondent outside Calais reporls that the commander of the Saigatte battery of heavy guns near Calais, which had been shelling the Dover area, offered to surrender. He sent an emissary with a white flag into the Allied lines offering to surrender at noon. The Allied commander accepted rather than waste men in continuing tho at!ack.
Reuter's correspondent with the Canadians says that nearly all the German positions south-west and west of Calais are now held by the Canadians. The main body of the German garrison has withdrawn into the town. Widespread inundations have made Calais practically au island.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 3, 28 September 1944, Page 5
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