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"TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY" CHAPTER 12
--
Newell Rogers Reporting_America `
The Old Country
Astonishes
New York.
expensive clothing than in this
ONDON astonishes an Ameri- zupposedly bomb-out city."
trip.
can just back from, his first
LL ́ Detroi's - motor -cor
Ακ makers are in production et
Mr H. J. Atkinson, cx- the same time for the first time commodore of the Boston Yacht in more
than four monthя. Club, had expected to find some Strikes or lay-offs have kept food shortages, people not too one or the other "Idle. well dressed, and not many new cars,
Output will go Oyur the 6,000,000 mark this year. But "Imagine my surprise to And L. E. Co'beri, head of tho a great many more chauffeur Chrysler Corporation, predicts p driven cars in London than I cnt to 5,000,000 in 1954. have over seen in New York."
Mulcers face a choice of lower he writes in the Wall Street output or lower prices. Journal,
**In fact, OND evening I A MONG 200 books presented counted chauffeur-driven Rolls- A by the U.S, Booksellers' As- Royce automobiles going by aociation to President Elsenhower Hyde Park Corner at the rate in "The Speeches of Adiul of about 250 an hour,
Stevenson." He made them while "When you realise that the standing against the Presklent purchase tax alone on a Rolls in the 1962 election. Rovee in Englund : ove: 0,070
dollars (£2,142). It is pretty hard THEY have been tolling up to imagine how these folks can the wages of beauty, and be in such tough shape that they Mits United States, who was in require aid from taxpayers in that London Mias Universe the United States,"
contest, comes out a bad third,
film
Mr Atkinson also says; "I For 10-year-old Myrna Hansen never saw more mink coats and merely wins her trip to London
and
contract worth 160 dollars weeldly,
America, winner of the Atlante City bathing contest, a 31-year-old named Evelyn Ay, will gather in about 40,000 dolars without visiting London. Even Mrs America, Mrs Ema Snyder, a brunette housewife of 20, will bring home around. 20,000 dollars.
GREAT OF THE ENEMY
PURSUIT
EN. EISENHOWER,
in accordance with
previous and agreed arrangements,
By Sir Winston Churchill
So
After
- either towards the Ruhr or the Armoured entered Antwerp on Their advance beyond Paris sumed direct command of Saar. Whichever was chosen, Sent, 4, where, to cur surprise had also been conducted with alt the land forces in Northern the forces should be given all and joy, they found the harbour the lustful puke of Bradley France on Sept. 1, 1944, the resources and maintenance aimest intact.
swift hail and his ardent officers. been the advance....aver 200 cressing the Seine on the right These comprised the British they needed.
He urged that the rest of the miles in under four days-that of the British, the First U.S. and 21st Army Group, under front should be restrained for the enemy had been run off their Army made for Namur Field-Marshal Montgomery, the benefit of the major thrust legs and given no time for their Liege. They reached Charlerol and the American 12th which shoul be placed under usual and thorough demolition, and Mons by Sept. 3, cutting off commander, himself or Farther to the west the XIIth and capturing a large pocket of Army Group, under Gen. one
of Omar Bradley, whose opera. He believed it would
Bradley as the case might be. Corps met more resistance, but 30,000 Germans southeast
probably reached their principal objective, Mons; then, wheeling to the east. tiona Montgomery h Æ Á
reach Berlin, and considered that Ghent, on Sept. 8.
they liberated Liege en Sept. 8 hitherto controlled.
the Ruhr was better than the
Of ecurse this pace could not and the city of Luxembourg two Saar.
last. The forward leap was over days later. and the check was evident before we sailed to Quebec. The enemy managed to destroy cressings ayer the Albert Canal
were
the
between Antwerp und Hasselt, RE
10
easy to take. been mode Bordeaux.
tion changes
A BASEBALL league covering
1,500 miles of land and sca sa possibility next year,
Havana, Cuba, a red-hot base- ball town wants to have a club In the International League. The league already includes the Canadian
cities of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, and the American ellies of Buffalo, Rochester, und Syracuse, Ric No attempt has mond, Virginia, is also a 'likely to get hold ⋅ of ] recruit.
Unless the stun- remarkably the
T 10 Francis Dempsey, who Allies wil atll be short of
from the arrived
green port accommodation when the countryside of Kilkenny an equinoctial gales are due.... November 1, has run away from Field-Marshal Montgomery has his uncle's home in Philadelphia explained his misgivings as to because he is "homesicle for a Gen. Eisenhower's future plan. horse.
It is difficult to see how the At 23 John Nowicki, of
21st Army Group can advance Chicago, kidnapped his CITI- In force to the German frontier ployer's wife in her red sports eer because "I was just crazy
until it has cleared up
up the stubborn resistance at
the
Channel ports and dealt with about that car." the Germans at Walcheren and
HOUSEWIVES' helicopter to the north of Antwerp....
service is to be o feature No one can tell what the future of a 35,000,000 dollar shopping
may bring forth. Will the
Eisenhower disposed of five armies in all. In Mont- gomery's 21st Army Group
the First Canadian UT Elsenhower
held to his
DESISTANCE was Increasing, Army, under Gen. Crerar, plan. Germany still had re-
the XXXth Corps found
but on Sept. 12 they and the
and Second British serves in the homeland, and he
closed on to the Gorman believed that it
by about 10 battalions. a relatively defended Army, under Gen. Dempsey;
10 00- mile force wcre
thrust some of them quite fresh. The frontler a total of 14 divisions and small
ahead
Berosz the Guards forced a crossing west front and plereed the Siegfried seven armoured brigades. On Rhine it would play into the of Hasselt on Sept. 8, but they Line south of Aachen. their right, under the 12th emmy's hands. He thought it had a hard fight and it was not fortnight they had freed all The fortifying and consolidating. He is no ordinary sheriff. On US Army Group, were the was better for the 21st Army till four days later that they Luxembourg
get
for
on
In a
First Army, under Gen. Group to make every effort to reached the Meuss-Scheldt canal 锁 bridgehead over the and took a bridge which was still
The Third
nrid Southern
Army captured
Hodges, the Third Army, Rhine, while the 12th advanced-intact.--
under Gen, Patton, and as far as they could against the
million fighting men.
the
Belgium.
Verdun on Aug. 31 and crossed
under the control of Air Chlef Relatively little rod and above Armoured Division. Their main Army, now formed into the Sixth
The
*
Muze
clear
Allies be able to advance in centre in New York. It will be strength through the Siegfried but on Long Island, just beyond Line into Germany during the city limits, and there will September, or will their forces be parking space for 10,000 cary. be so limited by supply con- CHERIFF Robert. Stockdale, of ditions and the lack of ports Portage County, Ohio, re- as to enable the Germans jects on an average 3,000 dollars consolidate on the Slegtrled
(more than £1,000) a month in Line?
bribes and gratuities. effect of a stand on the frontier Sundays he preaches in the of the native soll should not be underrated. It is at least as Freedom Methodist Church, and is also professor of elocution in will be likely that Hitler Aghting on Jan. 1-es that he a university
But
Sherin Bob, ex-Magne will collapse before then,"
also "plenty tough.” If he does
collapse before officer, is
He can draw like lightning, ond be Then
19 the best police shot in a political rather than purely county of 5,000,000 people. My view was unhappily to be nourished before
Rockets and gambling housen
Sheriff Bob Look over. There were ten murders in one year. Now the gangsters are moving out.
justified,
the
reaзchs will
Author's subsequent fattles. (Continued Tomorrow)
(World
His great array was driving manches were the only ports we establish sites, and lain Southern France, had any
פבר
The
MOUSETRAPS encrusted with A sequins are on sale. "Jewelled mousetrap" costa three pro-dollars (one guinea), about ten times as much as the plain killer.
the Meuse. A week later they *
had enough petrol to advance to the Ninth Army, not yet Seigfried Line.
the Moselie. The enemy had operational,
Gen, , under
Strategists may long debate
Their discusstun MEANWHILE these issues.
the First scraped up sufficient strength to Simpson.
caused no check in the pursuit. Canadian Army had the defend the river, and Metz held Elsenhower thus wielded more The number of
substantial
military. and determined divisions that heavy and responsible task of a su than 37 divisions, or over half a could be sustained, and the clearing the western flank. Their garrison. However, by Sept. 10
Each could
and range of their advance. commander, Gen. Crerar, had bridgeheads were won at Nancy Army Group had its own. Tacti- depended, however, entirely on under him the Hat British Corps and just south of Melz. cai Air Force, the whole being harbours, transport, and supplies. and the Ind Canadian
As already related, the Seventh Corps, which ammunition was
included
Polish U.S. Army and the First French Marshal Leigh-Mallory.
being used, but
the Channel Arr
under General Army Group
reservad. Copyright all petrol governed every move- task was to
and
coming up from their Reproduction, even partially. In ment. Cherbourg "Mulberry!
ey harbour
Arro ports from Havre to the north, at
language, strictly Occupy the
on the south met patrols from Patton's army hibited). before it the remnants of the had, and there were daily being shore of the Scheldt.
west of Dijon on Sept. 11. Swing- German armies in the West, who left farther behind.
Although Antwerp was in our ing to the east, they drew level were harassed day and night by The front line
still hands, our ships could only with the general advance on a our dominating air forces. The, sustained from Normandy, and reach it through the winding, ilne from Epinal scuthwards to enomy
about 17 each day about 20,000 tons of difficult estuary of the Scheldt, the Swiss frontier. divisions strop
but until they supplies had to be carried over and strong,
the Germans held both
This was the end of the great Lew the next could re-form and were rein- ever-increasing
distances, to- bom
These hard and costly pursuit. For forced from the homeland there gether with
could only advance much material for
months we were to fall principally was little fight left in most of mending roads and bridges and on Canadian
and after very hard fighting. Every- Army, them. Gen.
WILS Speidel, Rommel's building airfelds. The Brittany much depended on corar crossed stiffening, and our supplies had
where enemy resistance former Chlet of Stall, has de- ports, when captured, would be The Ist British Corps scribed their plight:
even more remote, but the
the the Seine ncar Rouen, swung been stretched to the limit. These An orderly
to be restored, retreat became Channel
ports from
Havre left-handed, and on Sept. 2 the had Impossible. The Allled northwards, and especially Ant- 51st Highland Division cecupied forward troops reinforced and motorised armies surrounded werp, if we could caplaire it
coming St
of the replenished for Valery, the scene the slow and exhausted Ger- before
was tco seriously
June
The left of the of 1940. man foot divisions in separate damaged, were prizes of vill ragedy to its parent unit in autumn battles, groups
emrashed them consequence.
corps turned and advanced on up....There were no German
Havre, where a garrison of over 11,000 resisted fiercely. In spite
15-inch guns,
ground
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NTWERP was thus the im-
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this
the
Germans
the
and the
of bombardment from the sea by DURING our voyage to Quebec our Joint Intelligence Com- and more than
dld akr, Eisenhower planned to thrust mediale aim of Montgomery's 10,000 tons of bombs from the mitee had furnished a report on north-castwards in the greatest Army Group, which now had surrender Havre till Sepl. 12.
and to the its first chance to show La possible strength utmost limit of his supplies. The mobility. The Second Army led main effort was to be made by the advance north of the Seine the
British 21st Army
Group, towards Belgium, grounding one whose drive along the Channel corps and using its transport to EANWHILE the Canadian on their right, coast would not only overrun the sustain the others. The XXXth Corps, launching
Dleppe, Its 11 had moved swiftly. the flying Corps was in the van. bomb, but also take Antwerp.
Armoured Division captured the where they repaid their БСОГСД of 1042, fell Without the vast harbour of this commander of the Seventh Ger- old city no advance across the lower man Army at his breakfast in to them on Sept. 1. Boulogne
thine and into the plains of Amiens on Aug. 31.
and Calais were invested by Sept. slow. . Northern Germany was possible.
The frontier_lowns so well G, then Dunkirk. By Sept, 8 the The 12th U.S. Army Group known to the British Expedi- Canadian Army had cleared all with Its also to pursue the enemy, ita onary Force of 1940, and, at the Pas de Calais, First Army keeping abreast of least by name, to their pre-flying-bamb launching sites, and Ühent was the British while the remainder, decessors a.quarter of a century reached Bruges. bearing custwards towards before-Arras, Doual, Lille, and taken by the Polish Armoured Verdun and the upper Meuse, many others were soon reached. Division.
to strike towards Brussels, hastily would prepare
evacuated by
by Boulogne, with nearly 10,000 the Stor
the Germans, was entered by the prisoners, tell on Sept. 22, and Montgomery made two
Dunkirk. Guards Armoured Division on Calals on Sept. 30. counter-praporala. one in iste Sept. 3, er ', #6 overywhere In with its garrison of 12,000, was had a only masked, as the advance to August that his Army Group and Belgium, our troops
12th US Army Group anould splendid welcome and wore much the Scheldt was far more urgent.
by the well-organised. Here for the moment we must No attempt has been made to strike north together with a solid helped
mayang-leave the Canadians to follow the
was
the
mass of nearly 40 divisions, and Resistance.
Capacity to Resist, not "German
which I deemed somewhat optimistic, and I had minuted to the Chiefs of Staff as follows: I have now read this report, and have not noticed any facts in it of which I was not already aware. Generally speaking, consider it cars on the side of optimism. Al the present time we are at a virtual stand- still and progress will be very Apart from Cherbourg and Arro-
manches,
we have 'not yet obtained any large harbours. The Germans intend to defend the mouth of the Scheldt, and are still resisting In northern suburbs of Antwerp, Brest has not been taken in epile of very heavy Oghting, and at least six weeks will be needed after it is taken before
It is avaliable. .. Lorient holds out.
the second on Sept. 4, that only. Thence the Guards turned sag; fortunes of the American Army one thrust should be made, for Louvain, -and-the-1h Group."
the
take and clear the port of Sl Nazabe, which is about 4wice goods Brest and twice as
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