a naiinp y~sr~t d ~nu S,c Is r ddotvirnbr919ant` ` 1 mile through a blazing screen of German 88-millimetre guns and antitank weapons,

capturing dominating heights from which their{ artillery could sweep virtually every road in the Falaise area. Simultaneously, Lt George; . .-Gen S . Patton's American tanks and riflemen pushed slowly north and west of Argentan to within less than six miles of Falaise, meeting savage resistance from German panzer units. The Germars were reported still clinging to parts of Argentan in their effort to hold open that side of the corridor. Bitter fighting was reported around Argentan, where American armour had penetrated well to the west and north. Putanges, ten miles west of Argentan, also fell to the Americans in a quick lunge that Supreme Headquarters, A.E .F., Aug. 16.-(BUP)lopped more than five miles off the Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's armies struck from all sides southeastern corner of the enemy pocket. into what remained of the German 7th. Army in the NorBritish Slash Deep mandy pocket to-day, killing or capturing thousands of fleeAt the opposite end of the ing., troops, while Berlin reports said Allied armoured col( British troops- from the north trap, and other Americans from the south umns were striking eastward in a new drive toward Charslashed deep into the German de,tres, 46 miles from Paris. Shaken by the incessant poundfensive perimeter, in a series of ing of Allied planes and shellfire, the broken remnants of fast-rolling thrusts that isolated a half-dozen enemy units and pushed Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge's 12 divisions were splitin the Nazi lines as much as three ting up into small bands in a frantic attempt to escape miles. To the north, Lt.-Gen . Sir through the ring of guns and armour tightening around C. Dempsey's 2nd Army droveMile, into them. The Canadian 1st Army fought its way into the outTinchebray .and pushed eastward along the top of the pocket, by. skirts of Falaise, narrowing the main eastern escape corpassing the strongly held village of ridor to six miles or less, and front reports indicated that Conde and crossing the Moireau river . the Germans were trying to break out over secondary roads The t front, Americans captured Dom. and sneak through the hedgerows to safety. La Ferte-Mace and Ger, Slaughter Hundreds C, ---- ----------into Yvrandes,. three mile, i drove of The German radio broadcast that Tinchebray, and farther to n south east the May By-Pass Chartres Canadian troops were fighting in pushed beyond Ranes against strong enemy opposition. in progress the streets of Falaise and British Fierce fighting is Other British units pushed in to . Correspondent Rich- north of Chartres, only 46 miles United Press ward a junction with the Canadian and D . McMillan in a front dispatch west-southwest of Paris, D .N .B . 1st Army at the eastern end of the said Canadian 1st Army advanced said, indicating that the Americans Chartres in a line, capturing Cossessville and Treforces reached the outskirts of the might be by-passing prel, the latter barely seven miles on the capital . town at dawn . after fighting and direct thrust e west of Falaise.. marching through a drenching rain. There was no confirmation of Flying weather over Roving Allied armoured patrols the enemy report, which said Amer1 area worsened somewhatthe battle raced along the perimeter of the icon tanks also were "in the Noearly toZ day, but swarms of Allied warLa Loupe pocket plugging the loopholes in gent, Le Rortrou and planes were on the attack almost Chartres, where their trap and slaughtering hun- areas just west of e continuously, bombing and strafing dreds of the fleeing enemy. More they -were- being engaged by Gere the trapped enemy and ranging far than 4,400 others were rounded up man "covering' ." forces. to the east to strike at the few would', and shunted back to prisoner-ofIf true, the D.N.B . report coin-' n Nazi elements that managed to slip war stockades during the last 30 mean that the _Allied high Paris a through the gap Yesterday . hours, some 3,000 falling prisoner mand was striking out for to Lt :Gen. H . D . G. Crest s Canaand the Seine river line without Bomb 21 . H.Q. Posts t dian's and Britons and 1,400 to the waiting for the completion of the R .A .F. Dominion and American Americans. n Normandy battle, now in its "and flyers flew some 4,000 sorties yesBritish United Press War Cornihilation" stage. terday respondent Robert C. Miller, with highlighted by a massive Headquarters ,sources believed the -American 3rd Army near Arr. strike at the German Air Force that only a relatively small portion I stations in the Reich and the Low gentan, reported in a delayed disorigin0 of the '100,000-odd Germansnet had natch to-dav that -thp _ daii alhter of k Countries from which the Luftally caught in the Allied waffe might attempt to aid the front been able to escape, despite Von cornered 7th Army. reports that about half of swing More than 1,900 R.A.F. Von Kluge's army was in full Kluge's 12 divisions had broken Command and U .S .A.A .F . Bomber last night. heavy out in a wild dash through the planes covered Falaise -Argentan corridor early h of about 1,000 by a massive escort Tricked By. Leaders fighters, bombed 21 yesterday . main Luftwaffe headquarters, conMany of the Germans, he said, e trol stations and airfields, while were tricked by their own com60,000 Doomed the nanders into believing that These sources indicated that at tt hundreds of medium bombers and rocket-firing fighters slashed at way to the east was open . least 50,000 to 60,000 of the pocketwhen they try to find this communication "It is targets, ed Nazis were doomed to surrender P and supply dumps in and bridges gap that we either kill or capture around or death; although it was acknowlthe battle area . them, , Miller reported . edged that small bands of enemy it Other raiders struck hard at the, His dispatch said the - Germans manage to infantrymen might embattled were surrendering in small groups escape overland -through- the clos- it ing out in German garrison holdof five to 50 men. e the citadel of St. Malo, prisoners alAllied " lines. ing Several thousand on the north coast of Brittany. The bagged by the 3rd Gen. Montgomery poured more Nazi D .N.B. News Agency said the ready have been along with men, guns and armour into the township itself fell to the AmeriArmy, Miller said, booty . fight, throwing British 2nd Army cans last "great quantities" of German D.N .B . the northern stretch d of street night after several hours, forces against Meanwhile, the : fighting, but reported that rein- of the pocket, while the Canadian . s- said the motley garrison both sides News Agency inside forced American tank and mechan- 1st Army and the American 3rd citadel, still was putting up a the the fuized infantry units had resumed was Army hammered wedges deeper . u rious battle . -"- - eastward drive on Paris which innto the eastern end, . P There was no change in the sithalted more than . a week ago -when i uation at Brest or Lorient, where main Montgomery . shifted the attack v American armoured columns were weight of the American d pounding hard at isolated German northward to aid in encircling the e~ garrisons trapped in those ports. Army. _ ---Nazi 7th

Huns' Escape Lanel On Falaise Front

Remnants of Enemy Force in Frantic Flight; Armoured Columns Said 46 Miles From Paris

Canadians Narrow .
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