Evening star., 1944-08-24
y. S. Forces Reach Swiss Border;
Allies Fighting Way Into Paris
Americans Take
Salon in Drive
Past MurseiI|e
1y the Associated Press.

Lyon and Bordeaux, Frances
third and fourth largest cities,
were reported in Allied hands
today. Meanwhile, Allied head
quarters in Rome announced
that American troops striking
northwest of captured Marseille
toward the Rhone Valley have
captured Salon.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Geneva declared American forces
had reached st. Julien on the Swiss
frontier miles south of Geneva,
presumably in an advance from
Grenoble, which is rs miles below
Geneva.
AS these new blows against the
Germans were reported, American
columns drove down the Seine
toward the sea northwest of Paris,
and RAF coastal command planes
sank or damaged a number of Ger
man ships attempting Dun
kerque" evacuation of LIE Havre.
The dispatch from Geneva as
serted reliable report said other
advanced American units also had
arrived at Evian, IL miles from st.
Gingolph on the Swiss frontier.
Earlier the Swiss radio had placed
American troops at Annecy, 81 miles
northeast of Grenoble, and within
Is miles of Lyon The latter city
$40 miles below Paris.
Poilus Drive Westward.
French Poilus who recaptured
Marseilles yesterday ARE driving
westward into the lower Rhone VAL
ley Rome headquarters said.
The capture of Bordeaux by Al
lied forces and French Patriots and
of the entire region of Lyon and the
city of Perpignan by French Patriots
was reported in Algiers radio broad
casts.
The Algiers radio said Bordeaux,
big port on the South Atlantic
coast, had been captured by COM
bined force of Americans driving
south from the Loire and French
Maquis who had marched north
from the Spanish border.
Allied Planes Land.
Algiers asserted three Allied
planes already had landed at Per-
pignan to establish contact with the
French Forces of the Interior. Per-
pignan is at the west end of the
Pyrenees which form the border be-
tween Spain and France.
"A dispatch from Associated Press
Correspondent Charles c. Foltz from
the French-Spanish frontier at
1run, said American and French
forces, reinforced by troops landed
from the sea, were reported by
French authorities to be pushing
steadily toward Bordeaux from both
sides
French military authorities at
Hendaye. ITO miles south of Bor-
deauX, said 800 French Commands
were among Allied forces landed
from French destroyer south of
Arcachon, below the prize Atlantic
port.
Yanks 20 Miles From Aries.
At Salon. the Americans were but
20 miles from Aries at the south end
of the Rhone. a natural gateway
into France.
Allied headquarters gave no de-
tails Of the French drive westward
from Marseille toward the Lower
Rhone.
Other French units, it declared.
were mopplng up German pockets
IN the naval base of Toulon to the
east.
There was no official word on
American mobile columns which
seized Grenoble, 140 miles north of
Marseille.
Collaborating with the fast-step-
ping Allied columns were B-25s
which bombed two bridges ahead of
two German panzer divisions,
headed apparently for the Riviera
beachhead. Mitchells struck at rail
centers in South France and found
a good target at Settino, 4O~miles
north of Turin, where German
troops were reported massed.
There was no report yet of how
much damage had been done to
Marseille.
AS long ago as Wednesday noon
the French and Americans had
slammed into the city's outskirts
after overwhelming the suburbs of
Mont du Paradis, Carquieranne and
Mont des Oiseaux.
Nazis Fire on Own Men.
Sid FEEDER, Associated Press cor
respondent. said he and four other
American correspondents, caught
In the extreme front line of the
battle for Marseille, saw the at
tack unfold step by step.
The most fearful, awful moment
(see SOUTHERN FRANCE, A-3J
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