... FLUSHING IS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH: THE TOWN AND FORT ON THE ISLAND OF WALCHEREN BEING CLEARED OF THE GERMANS after the landings of last week. Here British soldiers are moving through the streets in search of enemy snipers The landings on Walcheren Island were made at two main points Flushing and Westkapelle. At the former (a key point in the German defences along the Scheldt Estuary) strong ...

... THE LANDING ON WALCHEREN At Dawn on November I Dritish Commando troops, with British and Canadian infantry, landed at two points on the island of Walcheren, to wipe out the last enemy strong-point barring the way to Antwerp. By dusk on the same day most of Flushing was in our hands Westkapelle, the westernmost point of the island, had also been cap tured by Marine Com mandos and a bridge head ...

... rPhe Gestapo Headquarters in Denmark, housed in two buildings in Aarhus University in Jutland, were wiped out in a spectacular low-level raid by twenty-four Mosquitoes of the R.A.F. on October 31. To obtain accuracy in the bombing, a model of the target was built for the crews taking part. The aircraft went in to the attack at zero feet, one pilot going so low that he hit part of the ...

... THE SOVIET TRADE UNION DELEGATION AT NO. 10, DOWNING STREET, received by Mr. Churchill in the Cabinet Room. The Prime Minister, who was accompanied by Mr. Herbert Morrison, received the members of the Soviet Delegation, who have been visiting England for meetings of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee, in the Cabinet Room at No. 10. The delegates were introduced by Mr. George Isaacs, the ...

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... A fter three-and-a-half years of occupation by the Germans, Athens was set free on October 1 4 when British troops and Greek partisans entered the world-famous city, from which the Germans had fled. At the beginning of October parachute troops arrived on the Peloponnesus, to prepare an airfield. Greek villagers rushed down to welcome the long-awaited liberators. Landing craft arrived later. An ...

... 'T'he Russians have at last broken through part of the northern defences of East Prussia, and are advancing westward along the road to Konigsberg. A long pause had taken place since their first approach to the frontier of East Prussia last August, when their rapid forward movement was driving the Germans from city after city. The enemy seemed unable to stop anywhere, but at the frontier of the ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE CIRCLE (Haymarket).-- The 1944 theatre has just been blamed for being revivalist, although the accusation has not, I imagine, any religious significance. If all plays revived were as brilliant, and their performance as enjoyable, as Somerset Maugham's The Circle, which is the only modern play in the present repertory season at the Haymarket, there would be no need ...

... A FAMOUS SPORTS CENTRE WHICH IS NOW A GAOL FOR COLLABORATORS The scene in the Velodrome, where some 3,000 men and women are now incarcerated, awaiting trial for treason and collaboration. Many of the women among the suspects have already had their heads shaven. The French Red Cross takes care of the sick and injured. Before the war the Velodrome was the scene of many sporting spectacles THE ...

... From Aachen Down to Metz INTO THE CENTRE OF METZ: Men of an American Infantry Division move through the streets of the great fortress town, which had been com pletely encircled by the beginning of this week THE TANKS PLOUGH THROUGH HEAVY MUD AS THE U.S. NINTH ARMY OPEN THEIR OFFENSIVE IN GERMANY This picture was taken on the first day of the advance as the tanks opened the way for the infantry ...

... On left Along the road to Walcheren, which leads through South Beveland, lies the village of Kloetinge, wrote a Dutch correspondent now with the Canadian First Army. It is a village, like so many on this island, which forms part of the Dutch Province of Zee- land friendly, unassuming houses cluster round its church, and its church can be seen from far and wide, for the country is flat, lying ...

... one o clock in the morning, on November 7, the German General Daser, in command of the 70th White Bread Division, suddenly decided to give in at Middelburg, on the island of Walcheren. At that moment there were fewer than 250 British and Canadian troops in the old and picturesque fifteenth-century town. The German General had summoned all his commanders and told them to parade their men in the ...