FORGES CROSS FRONTIER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 2

FORGES CROSS FRONTIER

! Tonight, as the war enters its sixth year. Allied patrols are approaching the German border. A correspondent with General Patton's Third' Army in Lorraine says they are moving oiKa 50-mile front and there is little likelihood of them being stopped before the frontier. American patrols have been moving round the fortresses of Metz and Nancy. In southern France American troops who by-passed Lyons nyere tonight reported to be 35 miles to the north-east, on the mam road toßelfort. A correspondent says that the Germans pulled out of Lyons last night. They left some militiamen behind to make a last stand, and when Allied troops entered Lyons this morning street fighting was in full swing, with the Maquis gaining the upper hand. Ablate report from Allied Mediterranean Headquarters says that American and French troops have since entered the town.

On the Allied left the First Canadian Army continues to roll up the German remnants struggling homewards along the coast. n General Crerar has got armour across the Somme near Abbeville, 'despite enemy demolitions of bridges, and there is every sign that the Germans are going to pull out of Belgium and the' Pas Calais. The Allies have fought their way into the outskirts of Le Havre where the German suicide garrison is blowing up the port. At Brest, German positions are being repeatedly attacked by American aircraft.

" , oon " LONDON, September 3. At 9.30 a.m. today troops of the British Second Army crossed the frontier of France into Belgium, Tanks and infantry massed near Douai and they entered Belgium near where an American column had crossed yesterday. Both American and British columns have passed through the Belgian town of Tournai, 45 miles from Brussels, and a correspondent says that the drive to the Belgian capital is now on. Further east other American First Army columns are over the border at many points, but there is no official news as to how deeply they have penetrated.