VIVE LES ANGLAIS
TRICOLOUR AT CAEN POPULACE WELCOME INVADERS (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. About 700 men, women, and children in the square in front of the Caen Town Hall to-day cheered and shouted "Vive les Anglais; vive les Americains " when the Tricolour was hoisted on a lamppost; after which they sang the ' Marseillaise.' Renter's Caen correspondent says the people began to clean up the battered town to-day. Dr Jean Cayla, chief medical officer for the said 1,365 wounded had 'been treated in one hospital since D-Day. He estimated that between 1,000 and '2,000 had been killed, and added that it was impossible to give the total because so many were buried under rubble. Another hospital was hit by a bomb, and a house surgeon, 18 sisters, seven nurses, and 60 civilians wounded or killed. The firemen were still fighting the fires whicli were eating through sections of the town. More than 3,000 people had ibeen living for a month, in the Cathedral Abbayo des Hommes, containing the tomb of William the Conqueror, and the adjoining convent. Each family had a few feet /of space furnished .with straw, and kneeling benches. Here babies had been born.
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Evening Star, Issue 25224, 11 July 1944, Page 5
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197VIVE LES ANGLAIS Evening Star, Issue 25224, 11 July 1944, Page 5
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