NOT A SHOT FIRED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7

NOT A SHOT FIRED

A Radio .France broadcast from Algiers said tonight that Allied patrols, pushing on from Nice, had crossed the frontier into Italy. The Second Canadian Division en-! tered Dieppe just after noon today. A correspondent says that the -Germans toegan. to pull out yesterday and that" explosions were sttfl going on in the town this morning as ammunition dumps blew up. Before they left, the Germans smashed up the harbour \ area, sank ships in the harbour mouth, 'blew up the bridge over the river, and destroyed the power station and ■the water tower; but the town itself is not greatly damaged. v . Dieppe has one of the safest and deepest harbours along the Channel coast,' and can take vessels-460 feet long. It was the terminus before the war for the cross-Channel traffic from Newhaven, 75 miles away on the south coast of England. INTO THE FLYING-BOMB ' COUNTRY. # A correspondent at Arras says that British tanks by-passed the town to tiie west and are now ,north of it. The JT.F.L are reported to .have risen and set on the.-German garrison. This great British drive brings our men well into the Pas de Calais, the main centre of the flying-bomb sites. Many sites have been overrun and French patriots arc bringing the news of others close by to the advancing troops. " The "beaten and' disorganised Germans, struggling back just ahead of the fast-moving tide of British armour' guns, and .lorried infantry, no ionger torm any semblance of a line. Pockets + l.h^m^ re bein § by-passed and left to mtantry to mop up, while Allied aircraft'range far ahead blasting the enemy The desperate Germans are reported to be flooding large areas in an attempt to halt the Allied drive

THE TAKING OF DIEPPE