1/6 and 2/- per week to 7/- per week.
Princess Margaret is 14 years old today.
The Germans say Parisians are rising against
them.
1.14 1/2 end
21/8/1944. 6.= pm. Hibberd
The Germans say that the American bridgehead
across the Seine on the Eastern bank near Mantes
is being extended to both sides viz to Rouen and
Paris. This bridgehead is the outstanding news.
The Seine there is 150 yards wide and American
forces are fanning out up- and downstream.
There is no news about the thrust against the
Seine on the other side of Paris. As far as Paris is
concerned the Germans say they spared it in
1940 and wish to spare it again. Yesterday
7500 [?] prisoners were taken and our troops are
3 miles from Lisieux and more in the South
on the line of the river Touques. Off Le Havre
6 German R-boats were damaged.
In the South stiff fighting takes place in the
outskirts of Toulon. One of our advancing
columns is halfway between Toulon and
Marseilles. In the South of France landing
fields have been built. The 3rd German
General has been taken there and one of them
is Major General Hans Schubert. Laval is now
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