RIS IS L Rumania Is out of the War Patriots Clear City Soviet Peace Paris, *City of Conquest,* Free Again in Four-Day Battle Bid Accepted As U.S
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THES Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Vol. 1 No. 45 New York—London—Rennes Thursday, Aug. 24 1944 RIS IS L Rumania Is Out of the War Patriots Clear City Soviet Peace Paris, *City of Conquest,* Free Again In Four-Day Battle Bid Accepted As U.S. Army Nears By Satellite French Armored Unit Reported Inside; Balkan Nation Wants Marsei les and Greroble Also To Join In Fight In Hands of the Allies Aga nst Nazis Paris is free. Its liberation, after four years and two months of German occupa- In an eleventh-hour bid to tion, was announced yesterday at the headquarters of Gen Charles climb on the Allied band wagon, de Gaulle's National Committe of Liberation. Rumania last night became the French Forces of the Interior, with the aid of unarmed citizens first of Hitler's Balkan satellites encouraged by the approach of American armies to the gates of the to get out of the war. Radio city, effected the liberation, according to the announcement, and £ucharest broadcast a royal proc- French armored troops already were reported to have entered the city lamation stating that Rumania as the vanguard of the liberation armies which landed in France two has accepted Russia's peace terms months and 13 days before. and wants to become an ally of Almost simultaneously with the .the United Nations. disclosure of the freeing of the city, The proclamation said a new na- 3 - Inch Heads which is the symbol of liberty to tional government will be formed France and to much of the world, With Gen. Konstantin Sanatescu as Allied headquarters in the Meriter- premier. Two cabinet members thus Tell the News ranean announced that Marseilles, far announced are Bratianu and France's largest southern port, had Maniu. fallen to French and U. S. forces ad- Bucharest radio said that the Vi- In U.S. Papers vancing from their south coast beach-, enna Pact—under which Germany'.? head. Only small pockets of resist- Satellites were pitted against each ance remained to be cleared up. it Other and under which Rumania ced- was said ed the larger part of Transylvania to Freeing of Paris Stirs Mediterranean headquarters also Hungary—has been rejected.. announced the fall of the rail center "Rumania is taking her fate into America Out of Its of Grenoble and revealed that .Wlied her own hands and will fight against troops had advanced as much as 170 the enemy. All citizens are to rally Near Apathy miles inland from their landing around the throne." the royal procla- points. Heavy fighting was reported " mation said. Seven times captured, twice threatened with seizure during its long his- Stars and Stripes U. S. Bureau in Toulon, great French naval base. tory, Paris is free again today after four years of German control. Picture NEW YORK, Aug. 23—America The battle for control of Pans above show the capital's 107-year-old Arc de Triomphe. greeted the liberation of Paris today began inside the city Friday night, Reds Capture Four wi.th something more than the al- when street fighting broke out, ac- most apathetic calm which has mark- cording to reports from French Strongholds ed—or failed to mark—most news sources. On Saturday the prefecture Paris Watched in Silence from the front since D-Day. was occupied. SS troops placed ma- Capture of four enemy strong- Newspapers dragged out three-inch chine-guns in key posts to comoat holds by Russian Armies on the first, type. Some organized groups called the increasing menace of the FFI second and third Ukranian fronts As Boche Entered in 1940 for celebrations and prayer services. troops was announced by Marshal Stalin Mostly, however, it was business as It was estimateo that 50,000 armed last night in three Orders of the Day. usual. FFI men, plus several hundred thou- The first Order of the Day re- On June 14, 1940, German tanks rumbled into Paris. They passed Newspapers, using their biggest sand unarmed patriots, took part ported that troops on the second through otherwise silent streets. Many thousands—some reports said type since the invasion, headlined the w. the battle. Ukranian front had captured Vaslui, two-thirds of the population—had evacuated Paris and the remaind news with "Paris Is Freed," and By Tuesday night all of the key enemy strong point and communica- er stayed indoors. "Paris Is Liberated," while the radio public buildings had been seized as tions center in Rumania, 36 miles Paris had been declared an open networks aired special shortwave the Germans left the city. south of newly liberated Jassy be- broadcasts from the French battle tween the Sereth and Pruth Rivers. city a few days before. A valiant Meanwhile, the U. S. advance FDR Li ts Aid effort had been made to save the fronts. southeast of Paris was obscure be- The second Order of the Day said city, but the fight was a desperate The New York Times said editor- cause of Allied silence. There was troops on the third Ukranian front and losing one against an army with ially: "If Paris was freed solely by no information whether Gen. Pat- had captured by assault the towns To Free French vast superority in armor. Marshal foreign troops one could be glad- ton's forces had gone beyond' the of Akkerman and Bendery 21 miles Petain. who assumed office shortly but the French did all that man can city of Sans, which they were re- southwest of Odessa, important after the occupation, signed an arm- do to free himself. With every passing ported to have reached Tuesday. strongholds of the German defease istice with the Germans on July 24, day—indeed, with every passing hour This city lies 60 miles southeast of system on the lower Dniester. Says Lend-Lease Put and- formal hostilities in France —new areas are freed. Visibly France Paris. The order announced that troops ceased the next day. is rising from her ashes." De Gaulle's Army Gen. John J. Pershing, who com- Algiers radio, however, reported On the first Ukranian front captured Paris cafes, shops and stores, the that American forces had reached Debica, center of the aircraft in- manded the American Expeditionary the Marne River, northeast of Paris, Back in War cinemas and most of the hotels, Force in World War I, described the dustry 60 miles east of Cracow. The were shut. Women made pilgrimages which was the scene of the 1918 bat- last big German base guarding the liberation as "a great step forward to the Arc de Triomphe and, bowing .along the road to Berlin." tle in which the Allies stopped the approaches to Silesia, Debica stands WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—Presi- their heads, cried bitterly. The Ger- Gerraan advance toward the capital. ou the eastern bank Of the Vistoka dent Roosevelt informed Congress to- The aged general said: "Today mans ordered a 9 PM curfew and Paris is freed and the sons of In western France the German River and is on the Lvov-Cracow day that the U.S. commanding ge- the city of light lost its brilliance Seventh Army continued to retreat, railway line America who fought to preserve rhe neral in the field in France had in a blackout as complete as that of freedom of Paris in 1917 and 1918 with Allied forces in close pursuit. been sent $420,369,000 wort of lend- London. have had a permanent role in the Their escape corridor toward the U.S. Planes Blast lease equipment for delivery to the • Thus began life under the German liberation of 1944 by their coopera- Seine was narrowed to about 20 French in addition to the vast Continued on Page 4 Contmued on Page 4 miles as the Americans proceded Wall for Chinese quantities already received by the west along the Seine toward the French forces now fighting on their mouth of the river and the British Fighting their way into Tengchung and Canadians advanced eastward through breaches blasted in the city homeland. urns with Prisoner toward Paris. walls by U.S. 14th Air Force, Chinese "With the fall of France, the troops now hold a third of the city, French Army was virtually destroyed a Chungking report announced last he said. Now there is an army in A fter Landmg In Enemy A rea 8 German Ships Sunk night. France again. It is equipped with Meanwhile. Jap counter - attacks lend-lease arms." Off Lorient by Brit sh were reported repulsed by Chinese NINTH AIR FORCE HQ, France, Motioning his captive to turn The French are back in the fight Aug. 23—Unarmed and hunted by a around, the Thunderbolt pilot on the highest peak of Sungshan. the President said, because "we have near the Salween River. squad of German soldiers after ne snatched up the rifle, relieved the LONDON, Aug. 23—The British sent them Sherman tanks, American had parachuted behind enemy lines soldier of his ammunition belt, and Admirality announced tonight that half-tracks and artillery and other from his flak crippled fighter-bomb- led him back into the bushes. In a eight German vessels were sunk First * Djckmobile' equipment to replace what they had er, a Ninth Air Force Thunderbolt few minutes, six Germans came this morning off the French lost." pilot capaired a Storm Trooper non- across the field, coming within 30 coast near Lorient by British war- Brings Java, Sinkers The President added that "the com, disarmed him, and after a 24- yards of the crouching pair. "I ships, under the command of Capt.