ON THE WAY OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 5

ON THE WAY OUT

GERMANS IN FRANCE

BRITISH PACE GROWS HOURLY

Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, August 31. ♦•The Battle for France |s won," says the Paris correspondent of "The Times," <'Along the. whole front the Germans are on the way out. Nearly all of France has heen liberated. The last great battle on the Western Front cannot long be delayed. ' • .; "American armour, with infantry in close support, presses on persistently, and. the enemy inevitably fails back. Pockets of resistance reniain here 'and there -behind the surge' forward of the main forces, but they take little liquidation. It seems thai the Germans at last have been thoroughly frightened by the possibility of being trapped., and Have decided to fall back to Metz, Verdun, and the Maginpt and Siegfried; Lines. Here the battle for Germany proper will begin." ' A "Daily Mail" correspondent, cabling from th.c. Amiens road,'says: "The pace of the British advance is growing faster hourly. The German Seventh Army is fleeing for its life. All the flying-bomb bases squth of the Sommeare as good as won. it is nq longer a campaign; it is a pursuit Our whole Army is always on the moye. It is not really a rout, : because the Germans have it under control. It is a confession of their complete inability to defend the flying-bomb sites which are all they have left that is worth defending. Most of the villages and towns that have been liberated are intact. Our line has swept swiftly straight forward from Vernpn "Aw?!y to the rigjit, on the American front, it is going fabulously fast. We hardly believe half the news we get from there. "From the German viewpoint, the whole front, if it can be'called a front, is tilting the wrong way They are being cuj; off from Germany and trapped among their own flying-bomb sites but there is nothing they can do about it The Seventh Army has been thrashed within an inch of its life and is helpless." ' ' "It is hardto see where the Germans nave any defensive positions in all Western Europe," says the "Daily ExW^ ■.°ra sP<)ndent» Alan Moore,1 «ttSLY lth t^. Briti?h- "Some pitifuli S «??c are hem£ made to hold parts of the Somme. Sections of the' Valley have been flooded and mined, and a screen of infantry has been left south 5 he +^ ver ' bwt the German armour Amiln^^T t0 the other side bey°ntf hSiSL whe • enemy around Aliens This rtnp«W T" 3 UP fly^g-bomb sites. i& rf ftJ 1? T 3ll. Mediate cessa--6 otJ hfr bombardment of southern 'SS^SrilWMt ,the stalla«ons in" Kofa litti? +• U eis am ynmolested'for a little time, and some " bomb's arp being launched from aircraft * mg out upd§r a white flag."