... 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 ...

... THE BRITISH LANDING AT WESTKAPELLE On the Island of Walcheren The final phase of the battle to free the approaches to the Belgian port of Antwerp began on November 1 when Royal Marine Commandos landed at dawn at Westkapelle, the westernmost point on the island of Walcheren. By dusk the town had been captured and a bridgehead 3,000 yards long to the south had been established. From this ...

... 1WT any months after the so-called Liberation of France, it will doubtless come as a blow to many English people to realise that the Germans have not everywhere been forced to sur render in that country, or to evacuate the ports and harbours. Along the Atlantic coast a force of some 60,000 Germans still remain in possession of practically all the towns and harbours from Lorient down to the ...

... The capture of Hertogenbosch was by no means a simple operation. It was effected by the adroit converging movement of several columns, whiclHjad to advance through a typical stretch of Dutch polder country One column advanced from the eastward by way of a linking road which flanks the big canal known as Zuid Willems Vaart. They fought their way along this road through Heeswijk to Berlikum. At ...

... ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THE R.A.F. RAID ON COLOGNE ON OCTOBER 28. The large highway suspension bridge which was completely demolished Cologne, the worst-damaged city in the whole of the Ruhr and Rhineland, was given its heaviest attack of the whole war by Bomber Command in the daylight attack on October 28, when Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped a great weight of high-explosive and incendiary ...

... THE Prime Minister having announced that he could not predict, much less guarantee, the end of the German war before the spring or early summer of 1945, the future of British industry is likely to be still further behind its Allied competitors (notably the United States) than most people had thought. Since last August, a large amount of American industry has been turned over to the manufacture ...

... may not be a serious thing in itself. The wheels will go on turning as before, the will to continue is not affected. On the other hand, it is not a phenomenon that one would like to see repeated next spring or summer. Plainly, these psychological ups and downs can be no good thing amid ONE does not have to circulate long in London these days to be conscious of an atmosphere of disappointment. ...

... I he war on the East Front is being carried out on an unprecedented scale. For hundreds of miles the battle rages, right down to the Hun garian Plains. Last week we gave a diagram-drawing of the East Prussia area to-day we switch to the south, to show the inroads made by the Red Army in their dnve towards Budapest, the River Danube, and, ultimately perhaps, Vienna. Moving from the west, Szeged ...

... NOW ON EXHIBITION IN LONDON A map showing how the capital was defended from the German flying-bombs. The defences began with the gun belt along the coast and extended right up to the London suburbs The Exhibition is on view at the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes, Ltd. it was opened by Mr. Duncan Sandys. Prominent among the exhibits are a complete Hying-bomb, which was recovered almost intact, ...