22/8/1944. Macleod. 6.= pm.
Our troops are within a mile of Lisieux. The Vichy
Government has left Vichy for somewhere in
Eastern France. Marseilles is not so well
screened with defences as Toulon is. American
patrols are operating between Mantes and Paris.
Orleans is under German gun fire from the
South bank of the river Loire. The Canadians
have captured Dives-sur-Mer. Belgian troops are
in Cabourg and Dutch forces in the outskirts of
....... our correspondent Frank Gillard
puts the number of prisoners at 30000. The
German representative Abetz is with the
Vichy Government but other diplomats have
left for a different place in Eastern France.
General de Gaulle has left Cherbourg and last
night he was at Rennes. Mosquitoes flew at
treetop height last night along the Bay of Biscay
and up the Gironde. The Danish radio says
that saboteurs have blown up a tram depot
at Aarhus and that all trams and
buses have been destroyed. The Germans
say today that bitter battles are being fought in
Romania and a German commentator
said that Jassy has been bypassed by the Russians
and been given up. Our attacks on airfields in the
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