Show French Report German I Force at Lyon Cut Off I I GENEVA June 22 AP AP French French sources reported Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day that German troops in the vicinity of Lyon had been cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off from northern German forces by closing of French lines above them The southeastern French forces according to reports reaching the Swiss border are welding their hitherto separated armies in the upper Rhone valley and generally are having increased success with local counter counterattacks German motorized units in Lyon now stand in a pocket amid reassembling French forces which are aided by fresh materials from the south it was yas said aid The The French r were reported to have nave closed their lines above Lyon across the lakes and the Sa Saone one valley valley valley val val- ley to the Auvergne mountains on the west West of Lyon German efforts to take and hold Fer Clermont rand with its big war industries encountered a resistance stronger than any before Verdun it was said While the German mass nation of French territories crisscrossed criss criss- crossed by motorized columns reached Brittany on the west the eastern mass occupation still was lagging in the Champagne area northeast of Paris This lag was said to be due to fierce resistance of several hundred hundred hun hun- dred thousand French troops locked up tip p in the Maginot forts of northern Alsace and eastern Lorraine who were holding out though attacked from all sides One indication that the French I defeat in the north and the rout or retreat through central France has not meant complete collapse of the French armies was that tha the exodus of French and Polish troops into Switzerland where they surrendered their arms lasted lasted lasted last last- ed only one day dayS Since Thursday when troops from the southern Maginot Magino line poured across the Swiss frontiers frontiers frontiers fron fron- tiers from the Doubs valley less than troops have crossed the borders |