BREATHLESS PACE

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

BREATHLESS PACE

THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright > E ™ 10A?i- m< ' LONDON, Sept. 1. Ine Allies' offensive in France is sweeping on at a breathless rate The Americans have reached the Belgian frontier north of Sedan. British troops have reached Arras. Canadians captured Dieppe without fighting/and Have also reached the English Channel at Le Treport. Belgian troops are now two miles east of Le Havre, on which they are driving, in southern' France forces of the American' Seventh Army are rapidly closing in against ISyons. - ■ Verdun, 49 miles from the .German1 irontier.-fell/to an American armoured thrust- which" sped through the '<■ Ar•gonne forest at 35 miles an hour to make crossings over the Meuse north of the town, says Reuters correspondent with the American Third Army The Americans encountered resistance in Verdun and attacked with-armour-ed cavalry and combat teams. Infantry, in a sweep through the Argonne Forest, rode on tanks. Patrols sweeping out in front of the armour, are already pushing on from .Verdun towards the borders of Luxemburg, Belgium, and Germany. The -Americans have captured Commercy 31 miles south of Verdun. MORE SEINE BRIDGEHEADS. Reuters correspondent with the British Army says that the Canadians have broken out of the Rouen bridgehead and advanced 20 miles on a 'broad front. British infantry has established two more bridgeheads west of Rouen towards -the sea. ■ British armoured columns captured Molliens 14 miles west of Amiens. The column 'which yesterday reached Gournay is now astride a line from Aumale to Poix, on the left flank from Amiens. The British alone yesterday captured Germans of seven divisions. Our armoured columns' are not meeting German .armoured forces. The Germans are believed toJ be so demoralised by the speed of - .General Patton's advance on the right flank that they have moved the major part of their armoured forces eastwards. Seven generals and their staffs have "been f captured, reports a correspondent with the British Second Army. Pilots of the Tactical Air Force last night reported many -explosions on the waterfront at Dieppe and others at Le Havre. The Germans were I apparently blowing up Dieppe prior | to the evacuation of a very large part' ,of ithe. rocket coast. j The Germans are fleeing up " the i Rhone Valley today with American! tanks and infantry at their heels, says' the Rome correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, who .adds that it is officially reported that the Germans have ordered retreating units in southern France to return to Germany by their own resources. French troops who are advancing from Narbonne are reported to have met with no German resistance. The Americans along the FrancoItalian frontier entered the village of Condamine Chatelard, which the Germans had burned because of patriot activities. American vanguards from Nice are reported' to have crossed the ItaloFrench frontier at Ventimiglia. ~