Evening star., 1944-08-23
Air Observers Repor
Flight Of Nazi 7th
Appears 10 Be Rout
British and Cunodiuns
Race 10 to IS Miles to
Push Germans Harder
By the Associated Press.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Aug. 23.-As French
patriots liberated Paris, Allied
airmen today described the
flight of the battered German
7th Army across the Seine as
having the appearance of a
"rout."
On the left of the Allied line
British and Canadian Armies raced
ahead 10 to Is miles, pushing the
Germans tighter against the Seine
and into the fire of American flank
ing forces moving toward the sea
along the left bank.
Still a third dramatic develop
ment came as an American armorec
column drove more than nalf way
across France and plunged past the
ancient town of Sens, only l60 miles
from the German border to the
northeast near the Saar town oi
Neunkirchen.
City Already Outflanked.
While the capture of Paris was
certain to have a tremendous psy-
Geological effect on the Germans and
bring JOY to every French home, the
capital already was out of the pic
ture militarily.
The city had been outflanked by
American bridgeheads across the
Seine to the northwest and south.
east and some radio reports, which
were not confirmed at Supreme
Headquarters, already placed Ameri.
can tanks at Meaux, less than q
miles from Chateau Thierry. II
true, this report meant the Ameri-
cans already were fighting on Worlo
War battlefields.
The new Allied trap of Marsha
Guenther Won Kluge's riddled forces
along the left bank of the Seine ap.
peared to be closing on all sides as
the Germans gave up ali attempt al
an organized rearguard action.
AT the Seine crossing Allied plane.
hammered the German troops anc
were expected to deliver still more
punishment today as the weather
showed signs of clearing.
Others Flee Toward River.
Other German troops fled towarc
the river, where hundreds of rivel
craft of every description from rub.
Der boats to small steamers had beer
gathered to feerry them across.
Six hundred German tanks, We.
hicles and locomotives fell before tn.
guns and bombs of Allied planes
Supreme Headquarters said, while 8
belated German Air Force attemp
to give fleeing Nazi ground troops
cover resulted in the destruction O
81 enemy aircraft.
Driving up the coast toward thu
mouth of the Seine and the grea
port of LIE Havre, Dutch and Belgian
units took the famous resort cite.
Of Trouville, Villers-sur-Mer ane
Deauville. LIE Havre is miles acros!
the Seine estuary from Trouville.
Seven miles southeast of Deau
vile the Allies took Pont rEveque
The British and Canadian Army
lines squeezed forward from 10 Il
Is miles, engulfing the important
road hub of Lisieux, 16 miles south.
east of Deauville. At Trouville the
Allies were at the mouth Of thu
Seine and as far inland as Iisieu,
they were all the way from 10 to 81
miles from the lower reaches Of the
river. In the center of the from
Laigle, IS miles east Of recently
fallen Gace, also was taken.
Yanks Near Evreux and Vernon.
On the inland side of the Seine
trap, American troops driving
toward the sea parallel to the rivel
were reaching points near Evreuz
and Vernon, generally so airline
miles from the mouth.
The whole German aqea south o,
the river was contracting rapidly
There were indications that all Ger.
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