Allied Advance Up French Coast

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7

Allied Advance Up French Coast

NEW RECORDS FOR SPEED

- ~ UAV . ,- ~ ■ LONDON, September 1. United Kingdom and Canadian forces, racing ahead almost at will up the Channel coast of northern France and into the Pas de Calais, have today exceeded all past records of speed of movement. , # On the coast the Canadians have reached Dieppe and are at Le Treport, 14 miles above it.. Inland, men of the British Second Army have made a spectacular advance of 30. miles and reached and by-passed the town of Arras. Armoured columns of the American First and Third Armies are steadily approaching the frontiers of Belgium and Germany. The latest town reported to have been liberated is St. -Mihiel where1 the Americans won a big victory in September 1918. It is only 50 miles from, the border. ( Correspondents at Mediterranean Headquarters say that American troops of the Seventh Army are now 45 miles south of Lyons. They have fanned out to the east and are pounding the retreating Germans on a front 12 miles wide. The Germans are also threatened from the, rear, and another American force, advancing from ■ Grenoble, is about 40 miles south-east of Lyons. The French forces : have cleared'the western side of the valley as far north as opposite 1 Valence, thus' drawing almost level with the Americans. 1