also replied to the King's message on the liberation
of Paris. In their today's communique the Germans
admit the loss of Focșani and they also report a
Russian attempt to break into Hungary.
Fierce fighting still takes place in the old quarter of
Warsaw. In Macedonia Marshall Tito's forces have
captured chrome mines. After a lull of 30
hours the Germans resumed flying bomb attacks
on this country this afternoon. 2 announcements
about foot and mouth disease amongst pigs
in Yorks., East Riding and at Ripon in the West Riding
of Yorks. An appeal has also been made to farmers
to allow pickings of wild fruits.
29/8/1944. 9.= am.
American patrols have reached Château-Thierry,
the scene of a big American victory
in 1918.
Other American forces are more than 10 miles
beyond Troyes.
Along the Lower Seine we are building up
bridgeheads and seizing new ones. In
Southern France we are pursuing the remnants
of the German 19th Army up the Rhone
Valley. Organised resistance in Marseilles
has ended.
The first Allied food supplies have reached
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