The Archive · 1940

Heavy Toll Taken In French Ports

Vichy Reports Many Nazi Military Casualties; One

Port "Blockaded"

Vichy, Oct, 3.

Battering British night air raids ea. German-controlled ports along the northern coast of France have taken a heavy toll of French civilian li well as many German military casualties, official quarters reported here last night.

In Lo Havre alone, it was reported, 94 French civilians have been killed and 200 others have been wounded in severe British bombing raids during tke past few days.

British bombers were said to have attacked other military objectives in Lo Havre during the past few days efter smashing the complicated locks and commercial port in that city. The port has been "blockaded" by ships sunk by British bombs, official French reports said,—United Press.

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