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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 6

It has been reported that every bridge over the Seine, between I’aris and the mouth of the river, more than 120 in all, has been destroyed by Allied air assaults. That course had to be taken in order that the enemy should be deprived of their use. The Allies, for the present, could not use them, although the day will come when bridges over the Seine will lie essential, and the stern necessities of war called for the prompt destruction of these vital links. Air patrols will see to it that pontoon bridges, or efforts to repair the damaged structures, quickly have attention, for if this gap in the line of communications can be kept open then the Germans will have to divert railway traffic south of Paris, and that will mean an added strain,on the whole transport system. The cost to be incurred in the replacement of those bridges alone will be immense, and that represents only a fraction of the material damage done. Bombs have been the weapons emploj’ed, but it has been said that the luiioc caused bv the tires they have started has far exceeded that caused by the force of theexpioston.