The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-21
Allies Within 15Miles
 Of City Of Marseille
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tConInueu outskirts, other troops were out- fianking the stronghold from the north and already have cut all csc cape roads for the garrison except that leading northwest to Nice.
 General Sir Henry Maitland Wil- son, supreme Allied commander. an- nounced in his daily commmunique that some is.000 German prisoners have been taken in the first six days of the fastest-breaking invasion ever mounted by the Allies.
 A third German general-Major Hans Schuberth. civil affairs com- mander for the Basses-Alps district and his entire staff of six officers and 90 men were among the latest prisoners to fall into Allied hands.
 An official statement said Sch- berth was known as an ardent Nazi."
 Until last June" the statement said, he had been chief admins tratiye officer for southwest France with headquarters at Toulouse and he had a reputation for extreme cruelty. It was supposed his trans fer was based on this reputation and his mission was to crush the local resistance movement"
 A front dispatch said Schuberth was captured in a battle for an tn- land town. His headquarters were in a house outside the town. When German troops in the house fired on a massing American unit. an armored car and light tank immed- lately fired two rounds into the structure. after which the general and his staff surrendered.
 Round Up
 Hundreds of French collaboration ists were being rounded up. The most important yet caught was Firdinand Bouisson, 7i. former pres ident of the chamber of deputies, who was found hiding in a friends house four miles from St. Raphael.
 Bouisson, who served as minister Of information in one of the Vichy cabinets and helped Marcel Deat edit the eollabOrationist Paris news paper, LOeuyre, was jailed at Dra- guinan to await trial and punish' ment.
 Four all-French columns were closing in on Toulon under the command of Gen. DelattTe De TaS- signy, who has first hand knowledge Of the defenses Of the big naval base,
 The closest was that pushing down the southern slopes of Le Reyest- Les-Eaux and nearby Mt. caume, overlooking the base and only two miles away.
 Another was approaching along the coast from Les-6alins- Hyeres, 10 miles east; a third from 6ollies- T0ueas, four and half miles to the northeast, and the fourth, along the MaFseille-Toul0n highway from the vicinity Of Le Beansset, five miles to the northwest,
 The French already have cut all roads out of TOulon except q few secondary routes, and they were np' der artillery fire,
 Main Resistance
 The main resistance vas coming from powerful coastal defense guns, Many were knocked out yesterday by Allied battleships, cruisers and planes during an all-dRy air and sea bOmhardmeDt, but others, iDS eluding some Of Ss0 iDillimeteFs, still were firing,
 French e0mmand0s were credited with capturing a battery Of l5b-miDs llmeter guns which had been h0ldS ing up the advance from the north and n0ltbwest,
 Reynolds Packard, United Press War Correspondent, reported from the TOul0D front that the Gefmans were using every trick iD tbeir bag 70 pFolong the defense Of Toulon, Dummy e0Dy0ys Of wrecked, motor less, wbeeless automobiles propped up on stones and wooden guns tO detraet Allied fire were 0yeTFnD % the advance, Packard said,
 While preparing f0r . lRstSditeb fight, the Germans recognized that ll was only a question Of time before T0ul0D would fall. French getneeef reaching the Allied lines said they were destroying vital haybog iasials lati0ns,
 TbTea Gelumps
 Three American columns were cutting aef0sg the IslaIP eonalnuDis cations serving MaFsellls and threatening the elty fF0ntally
 One vas driving eegp the bighNay from enlhattlAd Ak, % miles due f0Fth of Marseille, [ second Has aps pr0aeblng from Et, zaehaTie, bollN q miles Co the northeast, and tllf third was near cugas,Ises Pins, lb inlles east,
 '5be fate 0i Marsellle, however, probably was decided at Alg, where American infantry and tanks gh0 had advanced 70 miles from nleli landing beahees pan Into 6 force 0f German Mark vf tanks, anils tank guns, mortark, anil~alfefntt trucks, heavy machine -Gnns @lld