Million Cheering Parisians Celebrate

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 206, 31 August 1944, Page 5

Million Cheering Parisians Celebrate

Received Wednesday, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 30. With mass parades Paris and Marseilles celebrated their liberation. Reuter’s correspondent iu Paris says that a million cheering Parisians lined the Champs Elyees when Generals de Gaulle, Bradley and Koenig and the fc'.F.l. commanders reviewed American troops. Four jeeps filled with brigadier generals led the parade. Armoured cars four abreast followed and then came thousands of marching men. The Exchange Telegraph’s correspondent in Marseilles says M. Dastier, Commissioner of the Interior in the k'rench Provisional Government accompanied by General Detassigny took the salute at the march past of French troops which freed Marseilles. Thousands of Marseilles citizens lined the ruined houses singing patriotic songs and pelting the troops with flowers. General de Gaulle, broadcasting to France, paid tribute to the fine Allied armies whose offensive permitted the liberation of Paris and who had made certain of the liberation of the wholo country by crushing German strength. CHUNGKING, Aug. 30. The commander of the operations on the Hunan front, General Hsueh Yueh, has ordered the execution of five high officers of the Chinese Fourth Army on charges of corruption and profiteering in the evacuation of Changsha when the city fell. The condemned officers in-

elude a regimental commander, the chief aide-de-camp, and the chief of the Military Affairs Department.