CABOURG LANDING REPORTED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 235, 1 July 1944, Page 7

CABOURG LANDING REPORTED

(Received June 30, lil.oo p.m.)

LONDON, June 30. Paris radio announced that British and Canadians had landed east of the Orne estuary and occupied Cabourg. Violent fighting was raging, it said. POLITE CAPTORS Airman’s Unexpected Experience LONDON. June 29. A Canadian airman who for two days was a prisoner of the Germans in Normandy told at the Allied supreme headquarters what .Reuter’s correspondent describes as one of the most fantastic stories of the war. The officer related how he and live fellow-prisoners who were taken after their heavy bomber crashed in a cornfield received champagne when they asked for water, how German troops bowed and said, “Excuse, please, British prisoner,” when they passed, in a split trench, and how finally their 60 German captors asked to be taken prisoner. “The Germans tried to defend a chateau, but our advance parties and patrols by-passed it,” he said. “On the third day somebody motioned us to the door of the chateau, and there was the commandant fixing a white flag to the wall. The last thing the commandant did before we lined them up and handed them over xvas to produce another bottle of champagne. An n.c.o. shook hands with us with tears rolling down his cheeks, and said, ‘My sister is in Loudon.’ All our captors were quite friendly. They were shaken by the Allied assault, but seemed happy when they were captured.” CONGRATULATIONS FROM STALIN (British Official Wireless.) RUGB.Y, June 29. Marshal Stalin, in a message to Mr. Churchill, sends “warm congratulations on the liberation of the town of Cherbourg from the German invaders. I greet the heroic British and American troops, on the occasion of this brilliant success.” Mr. Churchill replied■: “We are honoured by your congratulations, and express thanks for your greetings to the American and British troops on the occasion of this most pregnant victory.’’