Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Stars and Ifelo germans Retreat Fromble Toncae in chaotic Melee Swift recalling those which captured France four years this week freed a great wedge promised a Hal dozen ports to Europe and routed the germans with ominous in reaching out toward Nazaire to Tient and yank and Vance columns met what even the most conservative Sharief spokes men called confused German the huns garrisons every where throughout Brittany 6o far have been Light because of withdrawals to help the Normandy and fleeing German units have into our and Vance their vehicles and through Long Sacri fice by the German line the roadways in abandoned Rennes Garrison surrendered correspondents stories have been hard put to keep up with the Mili tary Advance of the past but All have detailed the numbers and aspects of germans in the two months since Day the americans have captured along the entire French front and have buried German dead i Robert Miller of up told of one of the instances of this in which German of the Garrison of threw Down their weapons and marched out to surrender under command of their own in the midst of there was no moans of transporting the Ger mans to the so the americans gave them pencilled and directions and the germans marched themselves off to the prison four the prisoners came trekking Down the Road unde the hot the leaders holding White flags attached to Sticks at that moment Rennes had not been hut this part of the Gar Rison had decided that Thev had had enough of mean dirty and Haggard from the forced mar Ches and continuous shelling and these men a car cry from the supermen who were supposed to be destined to Rule the the officers tried to keep the column in with a semblance of military bearing but was fhe Man t care Retreat in horse drawn trolley in the dash into Mayenne m ten hours the night of a gust the huns appeared comple Tely in Mayenne deep and Well fortified positions were found empty the main Bridge was intact although it had been mined with Quarter ton a German speaking sergeant Learned frown prisoners that some germans were due to reach town by automobile from the East soon after the yanks two staff cars and a truckload of germans rolled Down the occupants of the staff cars were Cut Down by the waiting those in the truck French refugees at Laval told tames Mcglincy of up that the germans were using everything they could Lay their hands in 1 Frerks Vilge the 1 i Cut Supply lines threaten Paris Region with famine i i1 t1 t t Vuk in own horse drawn trolleys t i i j c r5 11 their Kellmell at reported one French they came from Rennes in groups of Twenty and but there thousands of them Al German officers were the ones Riding at first and they were Miles ahead of their one night paused for drink at a cafe where i was and frankly admitted that Thev had lost touch with their then Thev began to Stream through in All sorts of vehicles horse carts and i even saw one said the Frenchman they had got it off the frack t somehow and they had four horse drive nor the Ger mans Werp discouraged and mrav of Rhein thrown n f Cherbourg the French Are deeply worried about the food plight of parisians now that the City is Cut off from Normandy chief source of its the Paris whose prewar Jive million population undoubtedly has been Cut possibly As much As a is virtually he seized cutting of communications makes it impossible for people to leave pans for Refuge elsewhere or to search for food to bring so far As is known no plans have been made for evacuating any of the daily arrival of flour is reported about sufficient for on fifth of the Peoples needs meat is Cut to per cent milk is available Only to infants less than nine months no wine or Salt has readied the City since june 10 and parcel Post by which friends in the country previously had supplied cite have been in where have been fairly Well Manv of the people were reported by Drew Middleton to the new York As feeling they Are now worse As far As food is than Thev were under the of 300 Grams a Day allowed by the enemy was maintained almost to the but that they Are getting far less from the Middleton reports that while the i reach also Lack ample supplies of sugar and there is More Green and fish available in fun shops of the poorer sections of this City than in Many similar neighbourhoods in they say the allowance infantry in trucks after the biggest combined air and artillery explosions since d the Canadian first army in Jantry advanced in a new device f mechanized troop these vehicles which took the canadians into the strongly held German lines South of Caen and beyond the Orne River Are described As a Miracle saving Ca giving adequate Protection and permitting the infantry to de bus within the in Erna lines thanks to flip special Armor fitted to the the giant carriers until now Piv hush Bush broke out Midnight casualties in France total Allied casualties in fran United states forces lost killed wounded and 6 143 British forces lost killed wounded and Canadian forces lost 919 killed wounded the United states total includes casualties in pre invasion exercises in april when 130 were killed 41 wounded and 312 were when enemy boats attacked a sheaf announced that Allied casualties have been thirty per cent under anticipated medical chief for the Western re ported that three percent were bags 6 in one bout England George Pilu of set a new record for the 8th Saaf when be downed six German fighters irs a sing engagement during an attack on Priddy Tail bag is now u enemy planes shot Down and six the lib in Jay he jul 4 n4v i the Itell last week an founded that Lesley me former commanding general of the army ground had been killed by the explosion of american Mcnairs death on the Normandy front had been reported the pre ceding in the the new York to Hanson Baldwin called the Accident one of those poignant Al tragedies that add up to the mass tragedy of Mcnair had been observing the action from a Forward position near to when some american bombs struck among our troops during the Tensive Aerial bombardment that preceded Tho opening of the ame rican offensive july report of the accidental bombing of some of our forces when smoke from ithe bombardment blew Over our lines and obscured the respective positions of the German and american forces from formation of our planes was made by Lewis ninth Saaf about fifty planes from the com bed bombardment Force the eighth and ninth crossing m the late Waves of the attack had dropped their bombs Short of the target Brereton said investigation had determined that casualties among our forces m the incident were less than had been believed at who Lead seen the be ginnings of the bombardment with generals Brereton and his the previous wrote such As this Are inevitable in the complicated business of modern Are no exception to the Bur atu10pv has this and every our own troops our antiaircraft fired at our own Pla our naval guns blasted our own planes or Cherbourg handles More tonnage than port of new York no Manoy in two a Wiilis this Sandy Luport de2s where first Allied blood was shed been converted into one of the in m greatest Porte handling a bigger daily tonnage than the port or new says the dispatch of one correspondent describing the development of the original Allied beachhead m France into a great it is not like any Harbor you Ever adds the dispatch Are no big when the is has been turned into one for the Allied supplies Are being fed Over it to the army through a network of new roads the engineers have Cut right through i the picturesque Cliffs and the Concrete Wall which hit Ier boasted was those new roads link with the main in land trucks haul freight directly to Supply dumps in the r both water and land traffic Are controlled from towers similar to those used in airports to direct plane work goes on 24 hours a during darkness communications Are maintained Over Walkie big freighters unload cargoes into ducks amphibious trucks and Landing Craft ducks Back and Forth from the ships to the with level truck loads which Are lifted out by huge cranes onto the when 4he tule is right ducks and barges pull right up several seawall ramps and buy More War Bonds