GATES OF COULMAR
FRENCH IN ALSACE
MULHOUSE CAPTURED
Hec. 11 a.m. LONDON, November 22. French First Army troops have captured Mulhouse and are now at the gates of Colmar, General de Gaulle told the Consultative Assembly. The Associated Press correspondent reports that the French took prisoner 1000 enemy troops at Mulhouse, including part of the staff of the German 19th Army. Violent street fighting is going on in Belfort. The French forces in the Belfort Gap area beat off an enemy counter-attack in the area of Delle where the Germans tried to cut off French armoured forces.
The Swiss radio reports that continuous violent artillery fire was heard in Basle today from the Belfort area indicating large-scale fighting. French tanks yesterday afternoon repeatedly attacked German pillboxes along the lines from St. Louis to Neudorf, four miles from Basle. Between 3000 and 4000 Alsatian civilian refugees last night flocked across the Swiss border.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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152GATES OF COULMAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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