The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-21
Japan Suffers
Mew Raids BIZ
Big Planes

(By International News ssrvics)
Victorious Allied advances In both
northwestern and southern France
were reported today by Allied com.
muniques.
Gen. Dwight ID. Eisenhower's
headquarters disclosed that Allied
units had reached the Seine River
at the vicinity OF Nantes and CASH
court, northwest OF Paris, In q move
to prevent the retreat OF trapped
Nazi Seventh Army forces toward
safety. while Allied units TO the
north made further progress toward
Lisieux.
American Third Army forces were
reported TO have cleared the last
Nazi defenders from the town or
Argentan in Normandy. ......
Although official communicates
did not mention closer American
approaches TO Paris, unofficial
frontline dispatches placed Ameri-
can patrols within the suburbs OF
the French capital, and the German
radio confirmed the presence OF
Yank forward elements In the out
skirts OF the city.
Fight In Paris
Correspondent Pierre Huss re-
ported from the front that refugees
from Paris said bloody street fight
ing ragged between armed French
students and German soldiers.
Rifle, machinegun and grenade
combats were reported by one refu-
gee who added that great conflagra-
tons ragged In Paris.
In southern France, American
and French forces were revealed To
have cut off the great port OF MAI
seille and the naval base OF Toulon
by driving inland and westward TO
the outskirts OF Aix-en.Provence.
some Is miles north OF Marseilles.
In a move to trap the German de-
tenders OF both cities.
Closing Last Gap
As swift French columns raced
west 10 close the last escape gap
for Nazi garrisons OF the Marseilie-
Toulon areas, American troops
smashed their way TO the heights
above Toulon, while French forces
passing through American lines
threw an arc about the city and
drove ahead to establish positions
only three miles north OF the sea
port.
American elements. reinforced by
units OF the French Maquis, sur
rounded German troops In the town
OF Pertius while other elements In
creased pressure on German lines
at the outskirts OF Aix'en-Provence.
Yank columns. by.passing Ger
man pockets OF resistance In sever
al places. liberated several more
towns and villages and the bag or
prisoners taken by the Allies since
the landings on the Mediterranean
coast OF France rose TO above ~
600 Three German generals. com
plete with their staffs, were among
those captured.
Aided by MsquIs
Allied operations in many places
were aided by Maquis forces which
surrounded German garrisons In
key towns and immobilized the
Nazi forces until American armored
elements arrived TO deal with the
Germans.
In the Pacific, the war against
Japan moved into new phase as
B-29 superfortresses launched
double barreled blow against the
lap homeland, hitting Yawata, the
Jap steel center, in a dusk ana mld'
line raid on Sunday.
AS the twin pronged superfort-
ress attack battered the Jap home
land. Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced that continued aerial blows
against erstwhile Jap strengthens
in the Molucca Islands, including
had reduced the mill
tary effectiveness OF those bases 10
a point where Jap defenders were
pulling their aerial strength out OF
the islands, and destroying the air.
fields so that L. S. planes could not
make use OF them.
Reduce Strength
The Jap aerial Withdrawn from
the Moluccas reduced 10 almost
nothing the offensive strength OF
the last major Jap bases between
Dutch New Guinea and the Philip
pines.
On the eastern front in Europe,
Russian forces scored two victories
by driving an added Is miles for
ward toward ;he Latvlan capital OF
Riga, and by wiping out three Ger
man divisions. an estimated 10000
men, in a pocket north Of the South
Poland bastion OF Sandomierz.
German reports indicated that
Russian troops TO the south had
launched a new offensive from both
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