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Show ALLIES TAKE OVER PARIS AND MARSEILLE-ROMANIA ACCEPTS PEACE OFFER The Second French Armored Division Entered Paris Wednesday " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Rome, August. 23. Vengeful French troops, in their first great victory of the war, captured cap-tured Marseille Wednesday as a rampant American armored column col-umn plunged 140 miles north from the Mediterranean into Grenoble, 183 air line miles from Germany. The French struck into Marseille, Mar-seille, second city of France, from a siege are curled around it by Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's conquering Franco-American Seventh army and crushed crush-ed all but a few pockets of nazi resistance nine days after the allied invasion of southern France. NORTHERN FRANCE French forces of interior liberate Paris; Americans sweep to within with-in 125 miles of German border; Canadians reach mouth of Seine six miles from LaHarve. BALKANS Romania an-nouces an-nouces withdrawal as German ally; will join allies in war against nazis. SOUTHERN FRANCE French troops capture Marseille, second city of France; rampant American armored column rockets rock-ets 140 miles north from Mediterranean Med-iterranean into Grenoble. RUSSIA Soviet troops seize great fortress of Tighina and Ak-kerman Ak-kerman in Bessarabia; seize vital vit-al Romanian rail center of Vas-lui Vas-lui in drive for Ploesti oil fields and Bucharest. ITALY Polish troops reach Metauro river on 12-mile stretch I and Berlin claims allies preparing prepar-ing to resume large-scale attack . to break out on Poplain. AIR WAR 500 Italy based bombers strike at Vienna area. ! others hit Lyon; allied planes support advancing armies in western France. |
