Americans Drive
To Edge of City
Advance to Within Four
Miles of Cherbourg1 as
Germans Start Wrecking
Port
With American Forces Before
Cherbourg. 6:68 P. M., June 20.
? American troops driving within
only four miles of Cherbourg to
day heard the thunder of explos-J
ions from the port, and civilians
straggling through the lines said
the enemy had begun demolition
in the harbor.
The deepest point of the spec
tacular breakthrough had not yet
reached the highest ground from
which forward elements might
see the city itself.
Moving across hedgerows and
green fields, and past peasant cot
tages with roses In bloom, the
'doughboys slowly closed the trap
| on Cherbourg.
j Already tne Americana are
Nvithin the outer rim of Cher
bourg fortress ? prepared posi
tions where the enemy Is expect
ed to make a final bitter stand on
order of the high command to
fight to the last
Not Manned
But strangely enough, some po-.
sit ions were unmanned when our!
trops approached them.
Artillery began- pounding the
? ant east-west lateral road over
which the Germans might move'
their troops and equipment to
Cape Levy, east of Cherbourg, or
to Cape De La Hasuo. jutting out
on the west tip of the peninsula.
Our guns rolled to engage the
Germans in and around Cher
bourg Itself.
The enemy's last chance for es
cape is by sea at night from
Cherbourg fortress ? the escape
oute for years ago for British;
-.roops trapped on the peninsula
?jy the Cerman breakthrough in
Prance. I
But they mus^ escape at night1
If at all, and in smaller craft. ,
RICHARD HAROLD LLOYD
Youngsville. ? Richard Harold
Lloyd, 38, died at his home,
Youngsvllle. Route 1, following i
a heart attack Monday morning.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
his home, and burial was in
Lloyd cemetery.
He was a fanner and had for-!
merly lived in Raieigh and Ox-|
ford.
Surviving are (lis wife. Mrs.
Vernie Lloyd; a daughter, Delo
ves; a son, Cecil; two sisters.
Mrs. Jesse Hicks of Knlghtdale
and Mrs. David Johnson of Youn
gaville; and one brother, Lonnie
D. Lloyd of Youngsville, Route 1.
Better pastures and more tem
porary grating crops give cheap
er milk, meat, and eggs, report
county agents of the State Col
lege Extension Service.
French Capture
1,900 Hitlerites j
Colonials Stack Their Arms
On Elba as Perugia Falls
To Advancing Allies
Rome, June 20.? French Colo
nial troops stacked' aims on the.
conquered Island of Elba today
and stood guard over some 1.900
German prisoners, while Allied 1
armies on the Italian, maluland ,
slogged forward through the mud
of a 30-hour downpour and kept
the Nazis on the run toward the
Pisa-Florence-Rimini defense line
in Northern Italy.
The ancient communications
center of Perugia, 85 miles n{>rth
of pome, shook with the sound of
battle as Eigth Army troops ex
pelled the last stubborn German
rear-guards from its streets and
buildings. For several days the
enemy had braced and mode a
bitter stand on the approaches
to the city, whose peacetime pop
ulation was 88,500.
Stand at Perugia
German force* in the center of
the peninsula were believed un
der orders to contest every foot
of ground at this point so that the
shattered Nazi 14th Army near
the west coast might withdraw in
as much order as possible before
the Americans and French of Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army.
Perugia Is only 72 airline miles
from Florence.
The French crushed the last
enemy resistance on Elba yester
day when the 300-man garrison
of Porto Longone on the eastern
shore of the historic island hois
ted a white flag and surrendered.
German casualties In killed and
wounded were estimated at 500.
Historical and cultural landmarks
on the Island, once the exiled
"home of Napoleon, suffered no
important damage in the three
day battle.
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