RUINS OF BREST
FLIGHT OF GERMAN GARRISON CROZON LINES TIERCED
(Received Sept. 20, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19
The German news agency announced that General Ramcke and the remnants oi his followers left the smouldering ruins of Brest under cover of flight and made their way to the Peninsula of Crozon, south of Brest.
It added that General Ramcke decided to leave Brest because he did i.ot wish to turn the cel.'ars filled with German wounded into a battlefield. The lines sealing the Crozon Peninsula have been pierced. The Americans penetrated the western and southern part of the peninsula, while the German forces Tallied on the northern tip.
Violent fighting is progressing on the steep, rocky slopes and deep gorges along the coash where the thick undergrowth is affording the Germans good cover.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22458, 20 September 1944, Page 5
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