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FLYING BOMB
BASES
Some as Good
as Won"
LONDON, Sept. 1 (A.A.P.).
liom Amiens a "Daily Mail"
coriespondent says the pace of
. the British .advance is growing
i 'aster-hourly, and -the German
I Seventh .Army -is fleeing for its
1 life.. All flying, bomb bases south
I ..the. Somme are as good as
j ®Pn-. 'There ' is complete inabi
lity, to defend ,. these, sites, which
aie all- the .Germans have- left
worth; defending. Most 'villages
and. towns are being , liberated in
tact.-
I .-The Germans are . being- cut off
- , . "on Germany and ..trapped
among . their own flying bomb
i . a tes,. the correspondent . says', and
there is .'nothing they . can do
about it. .
; 'A despatch to the "Daily Ex-
I press" said some pitiful attempts
nfre ljeine '"hde to hold parts of
the Somme, and sections of the
valley had - been flooded . and
mined. - The enemy around
Amiens had been blowing up fly
ing bomb sites, but installations
jn Holland would remain unmo-
i "sted for a little time, while
some bombs were being launched
'torn aircraft.
In two days the Germans lost
over 2000 vehicles and guns dur-
P1e onslaught on their re-
tii. co'unms moving across
Sene-Rouen area.
"Daily Mail" report
Dam. neH ni?d ,"le famous Notre
slript-a wv?. r ' , suffered con-
srnei ably from air raids.
snatph11 'f United Press de-
the io.f r , Amiens said: "In
DrKnnmJe„w, we have taken
iatlmo lho wcre weeping with
oai'pntc „,iS,?le, carried letters to
posted mi had nevcl" been
tlip iet'(p, e unvavying theme or
lne le'tcrs was 'all is over.' "
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