Advanced German motorized forces—chiefly motor-cyclists in small groups numbering up to 50 men, supported by two or three small tanks or armoured cars armed with machine guns—continued to work their way towards the coast. They were being hunted down remorselessly by French motorized troops.
When German and Allied troops met at road junctions or wherever the Germans ran into ambushes set by the French, there was always a pitched battle, and the French last night contended that the number of these German troops had been seriously reduced.
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