ENEMY PURSUIT
ADVANCE CONTINUES
(Received June 21, 12.55 p.m.)
LONDON, June 20
A German "High Command communique states: "We captured Brest and have reached the Lower Loire from Nantes to Tours and crossed the river in various places. -The pursuit continues on the middle Loire over the Cher sector and towards Bourges. Our fighters continuously attacked the retreating enemy south of the Loire. Remnants of the beaten French eastern army in northern Lorraine are being pressed more and more in the Mosel region, between Epinal and Toul, and also in the middle and part of the Upper Vosges. Epinal, Toul, and Luneville have fallen into our hands.
"The struggle continues on both sides of Diedenhofen, in the Maginot Line, which was again breached west of Weissembourg. "•* Dive-bombers and fighters destroyed a large part of the
fortifications. We have captured Strasbourg, and the German war flag flies over the cathedral. Troops from Belfort and those from the Upper Rhine made a junction in Burgundy. We took 200,000 prisoners yesterday, including General Altmeyer, commander-in-chief of the French Tenth Army, and his chief of staff."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7
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182ENEMY PURSUIT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7
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