MORE SUCCESSES CLAIMED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 June 1940, Page 6

MORE SUCCESSES CLAIMED

1 BREST AND STRASBOURG CAPTURED 200.000 PRISONERS TAKEN ! [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 21st June, 2 p.m.) BERLIN, 20th June. A High Command communique states: "We captured Brest and readied the Lower Loire from Nantes to Tours and crossed in various places. The pursuit continues in the Middle Loire over the Cher sector and towards Bourges. Our fighters continuously attacked the retreating enemy. South of the Loire remnants of the beaten French eastern army in Northern Lorraine arc being pressed more and more in the Moselle region between Epinal and Toul. also in the middle and ptirfcj of the upper Vosges. Epinal. Toul and Luneville have fallen info our hands. The struggle continues on both sides of Diedenhofen, in the Maginot Line, which was again breached west of Peissembourg. Dive-bombers and fighters destroyed a large part of the fortifications. We captured Strasbourg and the German war flag flies over the cathedral. Troops from Bellfort and those from the Upper Rhine junctioned at Burgundy. We took 200.000 prisoners yesterday, including General AV.meyer. Commander-in-Chief of the, French Tenth Army and his Chief of tafT. Enemy planes, rftainly British, continue to attack open German towns. Four civilians were killed last night. The German Air Force has begun to wreak vengeance on Britain. German air squadrons last night bombed important English armament centres, including a nitrogen factory at Billingham. where fire broke out. Fuel oil tanks at Hull were set on fire. German torpedo-boats west of Dungcness sank a 4000-ton vessel and a Üboat sank an 8000-ton vessel.