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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 17 August 1944, Page 6

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FIGHTING IN FRANCE IXDNtJON, Aug. 16. —The Allied line of attack now stretchy about 125 , miles along the Riviera coast, says the German news agency’s commentator, Capt Sertorius. Airborne formations \ yesterday landed between Cannes and Nice The enemy has since been re* ; from the sea. As in the landing in Normandy it was the Allies' strong air and naval superiority •which enabled them to obtain a foothold, added Capt. Sertorius. The landing of reinforcements on our already established beachhead in < southern France.continues without in* •) terruption. The. bulk of our leading j infantry divisions are already ashore, according to an official statement from Allied Headquarters in the Mediter- j ranean. Prisoners to midnight on j Wednesday totalled nearly 700. Ger* * A French commando force which landed some miles from the main as* j sault force has now contacted American infantry divisions. Mr Churchill visited Corsica on Tuesday and thon - proceeded by a destroyer to watch “ Cue landings - •'The Allies in Normandy are administering a sound defeat to the German Seventh Army, but it cannot yet •SHAEF statement. Reuter’s correspondent at the United States First Army Headquarters, in Normandy says it is officially announced that elements of II German divisions art caught in the Falaise pocket. Caiia- ■ north of Falaise after an advance § made in darkness, reports Reuter's * correspondent. They met no enposition and almost four miles j without pause in one sweep. Two . r thousand ‘German prisoners so iar - j dent of the Associated Press of Great < Britain with United States 3rd Army t aays the bulk of the trapped German J 2 riila. units searching frantically for scattered Ways of escape from the pocket which Allied artillery an<* plan? are pounding. ,