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Crazed German ColonelHangs On at St MalomJ ■ mmBy HAL BOYLEST. MALO, Prance, Aug. P (Delayed)— (£*)—German troops began shooting thetr own officers today in order to surrender as AmericanIII miwere firing.“Wo are shelling thC4IA Anowdoughboys in flaming hand-to-hand battles occupied all St. Malo except1 tank destroyers, anti-tank guns, ar-the port’s rocky citadel. | tillery and mortars,” White con-inside this battered granite fortress the enemy garrison still held|tinued. But they are in fortifi-out at. 6 P. M. under the command of a fanatical leader, Col. Von (cations 45 feet deep beneath solid Auloch, a tall grayhaired man who was parrying out to the bitter end his threat to make this fashionablethev march to the rear.beach resort a “new Stalingrad.”A veteran of the Russian front“Their commander just lined upevery German in the port area, gave, a machine gun to every fifth man were as touRji to crack as Cherbourgrock. We just finished cleaning out their last stronghold in the Victoria Hotel. 700 yards from the front.Lt. Col. Herbert H. Hauge, of Des Moines, la., said the fort’s defensesseemingly obsessed on the subjectof Stalingrad, the commander hadjand a rjnP to the others and threw |and said th€re was bitterness among sworn his determination to turn St. jthem all in the front line of com- j prisoners because high-ranking of-Malo into a similar siege even if bat,” said Capt. T. C. Roberts, West fibers in many cases had pulled the hopeless fight cost the^ lives of j Hartford, Conn. “They are a sloppy! army.”all of his men and himself.French refugee and German pris-back into the safety of the fortress.!Loud speakers induced many toj surrender.We Dound them with artillery forMany more prisoners have been oners lt;said the colonel suffered de- j taken today, raising the total lusions as the result of a head the four-day siege to at least 3,800, five minutes, then broadcast an ul-wound received at Stalingrad and ancj another 3.000 wounded are re-jtimatum giving them half an hour was embittered by the death of his|p0rted in the large hospital within I to come out.” exDlained Mai. J. M.wife and children in a Berlin bomb- i the city. A Iir.g raid.Alexander, Garth Road, Scarsdale,“They have been giving up in N. Y.Streaming back from barricaded j groups of 100 or more.” said Captain It appeared necessary to ^hatter streets are remnants of his motley Roberts. We bagged a couple of|thr port’s fortress with divebombers army—hundreds of Todfc organiza- lieutenant colonels and a lot of i before the infantry could storm tion workers, marines, headquarters other officers. One lieutenant col- f through the bottleneck entranceby Nazis 280 mm. navaltorpedo boats in therifles.Enemysoldiers, truck drivers, cooks, para- [ 0nel had been wounded bv his own chute troops, sailors and “punish- men so they could give up.ment platoons, a beaten, sweaty,| *geverai prisoners told us they, dirty misfit group of middleaged, | k t flRhtjnK onjv because the of- r*nRe estuary gave some fire sup-many are wounded, many limp as|#icers hpi^ nistols to their backs. P°rt to the enemy and possibly wereI Troops fighting toward the fort ‘To aid in preventing heat were within a quarter of a mile ofrash a* well a« to relieve | its sjte on the bay and advancing ,and »r^»the prickly heat and sjowjy under the fire 0f German, a *roun «f ?cnch volunteers underheat-rash irritated skin, , island* in th* harhnr command of a French Army cap-use Mexsana, the sooth- naval Puns on lsJanas m tne narDOr ripanlnr nut fiprmnn *ninprs ”____-----“Wp hnvp rut, t.hp nnupr line and cain cleaning out uerman snipers,BEATr the^HEATstanding by to evacuate a few German officers.“North of St. Malo we have goting, medicated powder. Just sprinkle this refreshing comforting powder well over such irritated skin. Costs little. Get Mexsana.We have cut the power line and water main leading to the citadel.”Lt. Robert J. Fitzgerald said. “ItSt. Scivan area where snipers stillft P » •» i«*r «*« *,*nMONTGOMERY WARD!said Capt. George White, Toledo, we can do to keep this gangOhio, in command of a past in thel*.rom |,g on tIie German’ Armv.”“Tim Is the heaviest street fighting we ever ran up against,” Captain Roberts said. “O'lr bovs had to wade through dugouts in cellars, concrete pillboxes built into the sides of buildings, machine gun posts in the streets, blockhouses and even air raid shelters converted into strongpoints. j “One reason they have been fighting so hard is that two days ago j they were told the Germans in aj | big counterattack had broken through to Avranches and cut us in j half. At first they wouldn't believe us when we told them the truth.” One German sergeant came out of a strongpoint waving a white handkerchief,” said Tech. Sgt. Harry Downard, former motion picture cameraman from San Diego, Cal. “Then 80 more men came tumbling out as soon as they saw he was j taken prisoner without being shot. ( The sergeant told us that he had j to shoot his own officer before he could give up.’*The St. Malo garrison i* believed to have totaled about 10,000 men.irit5i€
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 11, 1944
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