BORDEAUX FIGHTING
ENEMY RESISTANCE BROKEN LONDON, April 16. " The back of German resistance on both sides of the Gironde, estuary has been broken, and the remnants of the garrison of 20,000 are fleeing under a murderous hail of bombs and shells," says the British' United Press correspondent. " The Germans are falling back to the northern tips of the Royan and Point de Grave pockets for a final etand." French forces at Point de Grave, after bounding forward four miles, pinned the Germans in a narrow area in the northern tip of the peninsula with their'badks to the sea, where they* must surrender/or fight to the death. Four hundred and fifty French-based Fortresses for the third successive day to-day attacked German positions in the Gironde estuary. High explosives were dropped in the Point de Grave area.
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Evening Star, Issue 25462, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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