DEEPER INTO BELGIUM
THE ALLIED THRUST
LONDON, September 3. • Armour and infantry of the United States First Army captured Maubeuge ! and Tournai, 43 miles from Brussels, ! and are now thrusting deeper into Belgium, says a Reuter correspondent. Tournai, which is five miles beyond the frontier on the main road from Lille, fell to an armoured spearhead; There was only scattered opposition. The French Patriot Radio today says that Allied forces have already reached the great Belgian town of Namur, 35 miles inside Belgium. If this is correct, the Belgian capital is being outflanked. The French radio says, in fact, that the Germans are already pulling out of Brussels, while throughput Belgium an underground army of about a million men has received its orders. So far today every German-con-trolled radio in Belgium has been silent. ■ The Germans have been burning down whole villages and murdering scores of civilians during the withdrawal from the Belgian border areas, says a British United Press correspondent, who saw the mutilated bodies of 14 Frenchmen, bound hand and foot, riddled with machine-gun bullets and mauled with pickaxes. The German news agency says that the population of Lorraine has started to leave the Maginot Line area.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 2
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