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amphibious "dreault brought in by H.FC.$18.00 a. The necessary forces for the

attack could not be antómbled until' H.K.SIKDEMON

I had not at Empire troops available in the ground attack? Because the dams II.K$72.00 Jate October,

emistud the Arnlion operation: United Kingdom, Including the were located in diffenlt mountain Bossibly wp could have begun the Canadian Arity and the Follah country the attack was certain to Walcheren attack some two or division.

Further reinforcement in slow unit costly After an al- three weeks earlier.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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was

twenty-sogne, of the month; "The onemy

hls' habitual placile launched a counterattack Instantly. Initially, our al- vancing troops - loat some ground but the 44th Divinton Tought, bff the enomy and regained Ita ́posi- tloris: The 79£N® Dlvlslow 'irow camo! abroast of the 44th and the tsko,df, them made; rubld progress, lovarti Haguenau, which they toole of December 12.

During, the progresA of thoвd I viited Dayers, to make

'unias, na ovefitual- [tack by the 28th' Division had Lall. As of Wig, “situation with

a few additional unitsel to make satisfactory propicis a

theatre.

imporm the heavy assault 'was started by tha

Mr. and Mrs. W. 1. Hundyside

To the Canadian 2nd Division and Mrs. T. A., Martin wich was assigned the job af oveream-

could express their heartfelt ng Woensdrecht, und from there Mediterranean thanks to the, Statis of the attacking Westward along

the Americans were Queen isthmus Germans on position Kowals and thus devoted

attention to Use Inte Miss

fully acknowledge the many expressions "of aympathy re- ceived.

NEW REVENUE The taken by the Government this week to increase its re- venue have been received

various measures

in 1.

"ifferent

First Army December Meanwhile; South

the

a.

On his extreme loft-there

to be no limediato ad-

13. happhared to

Rhino plain, I d67, Into the

of the vantage In pushing Third Army turn the left coups of Patch's Army The fighting throughout, the

South Beveland. The troupe were were rapidly foming from the launched an atticle on November Northone poch

einforcing

27 the division had

the month South

8. ILM pifchstve was aimed

close

to

and

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conditions. In p

which in all kinds of War!

_with mixed feelings desplic entirely in our hle

offensive toward the Raine in cember before, the find, one' wüs owner. I particularly entry tonnes, wizię approval of Legislative Coun- Walcheren Island consisted of the Ninth and, First Armies and was Army, the advance quickly brought had clones Mountains, until. I

the fact they received the

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Lisa NorthwAFIN MOVEMENg on the, Eug frontally absorbs the wave

requently, forced to fight-waist- Vera Handysldo, and grite deep in water against sirong Gor./ United Vistes, and as they reachtaí centrally at the Saar region, and pot with the right think, of front,; friend' Switzerland to the

the battle front ** man' resistance: and

they provided took them st

on the Western mouth of the Ehint, descended 24 three days to reach the West esidportant tasks and made it possilife North of Melz, bridgeheads were

strength for the execution of made excellent initial progress: slopes of ope That corps during the late fall monilia to the ni of the isthmus. But by Delcher to broaden the American sector established across the Maselle and

support the

delest kind of infantly slugging established itself on the Island proper.

Its attacks against the Sear, which Advances wore slow and labóriais. The henover necesary to provide shortly after the middle of Name

Calne were ordinarily measured British 62nd Division, war Innded granty for concentrations on her the leading taxandmed: the won 0 to be benewed

the remainder on the South shore of South Bever the flanka,

German frontier Metz was sur

I course desimale to of yazdı rather than on

Dovers

Operations became Immediately South of the British rounded and cut blf. Jand

on, the night of October 25-20.

arch Bradles, on October surrendered. November 22, How-

The city front to Whipe a rapidly 14, matter of artillery and pe The two forces then fought for brought init: line the US. Ninth eyer, some of the forts in the as possible and then by nuving on and, on the part of the ins

In a

and by the

victity, out to too, toming juncture and by thirtieth of On November 10, Bradley renewed I was almost the wildele De all the way Northward to the coutego.

cautioned Dovers not to start th the Northern part of his sector redusest, and topped df. The defending

on The attack was carried out by the In the right sector of the Third of the

he cll" without dissenting troops that had escaped from South

precollect Beveland and of detachtinents the

by a heavy bombitig of

The Lousts, was taking out all onenty foring 1 against up voice. On the question of

of the tions in his rear.. from the German Fifteenth Army, bhry, Rindred and Line, those gunning the trianglones enamy,

practically all of them. These the increased fees for radio which had originally been station- four American, and 1,188 British between the Moselle and the Rhlắc. | m

strongest sections of, the, Siegfricil

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garrisons and slope. In other respects, too, stood.

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operation being

of casualties, Becaus another example prised two general lines of de- months, the programme ac WEEKEND IN

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However, thip pro and bomber to continuous system of obaticies and codure le have been widely discussed strongest local resistance we met intervene affectively in the

ize anally applicable only at any coast line during the Euro- battle

troops are cot/ with, as the outcome, agen pean operation. To provido sup

mended Morerer, the Ampng depth. In the eral acceptance of the view porting fire, only smait naval ves fourteen divisions, and the number It featured a series of held forts, These altacks initially employed line of extraordinary strength. that an increase in the feels could be used but these, un was soon increased to seventeen mutually supporting, arranged in

of our own

"own" troops; and itli applicable when from $12 to $20 annually wantingly puched in close to the Nevertheless, progress was slow a line more than two miles deep pocket is in

Walcheren Jalan must be regarded as well sistently engaged heary Innid, ont richt dengan Binck, the first three defenses glowed up the add from, which it enn, threaten our ander le curtain of uriniery fre

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tha

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noʻl impreund, non. Deygra that fourcall to and enough divisions unit strength, we found the allow any Gornians to remain caus of the river in the upper Thing perform all the tasks. plain,

South of Strasbourg, would quired immediate attention and barrassment.

required for successful ullacke. Gederal Devert billeted that As the Infantry replacement the With Army which had up objem, benar og de menor

sd brilliantly in breaking every kind or expedient to through the Belfort Gap and

strength. Full UPIR

тереді reaching the Rhine, could easily were made, to the War Depart

themont, so that take care of the remnants of the German

Nineteenth Army

certain to cause us inter em- still maintain the... concentrations

facing thons

In der German.

he

has

units

ope

land would beffort in the home

concontrated. need. We combed throu own organisation to fjod.. men the Services of Supply and che

who could be

man where, employment in 1

to exist as a factical

fore". Consequently, he estimate formations. Wherever possible we

he could carry out my instruc- replaced a man in service organ

tions for the elimination of the

Geraiană near 'Colímax"

the bations

Vi service cate

asufitance of General Bra Generál

Corps. The had reason Justified in

in the Allmate

icularly in view of

Wig:

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or by a WRC. 507 Spantz, fohnd

could give, us

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that tio, te

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to

great

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fonts already: inflicted on

thousand

mon:I transferred from his unita toitur

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the owners of radios brought red two weeks or completion abominable and the German garri the Rlione Valley and case. In ness"wan “over-optimistic, who'tio) ithout waiting for the additionn

October.

Dut * 100% *Intò line..

thank

ers we do not know: but ob- berunARTY-Z the "Américay 4th 9th, and 28th attacked, tant formidable barrier to themselves stubbornly to, hold

**The "eltv in mid- Divisions referred to hard fighting on November 14, In tin attempt 15 Army, werkened bử ita" rodent acting buities and master-Genefal; and its full considerable damage in the caused with the Battig of Hurtgen Forest Once, we could secure this region Fellinto the to in them with the infant it

AYS of numerous smaller left and the defenders of the Sour German 20,

o less than 25,000, in the capture of Sicily, where we defeated a sarrison of 360,000.

Forest, the scene of one of the vast amount of heavy artilery German Army. He ordered the the ground forces. All thora mea- With this effort necomplished; most bitterly contested battles of ammunition, the attacks there.VI Corp to turn Northward Insurts, however, falled to kép fil- No began the clearing of mines the entire campaign. The enemy. Were suspended until additional the plain East of the Vi

the ranks of the Infantry from the Scheldt: Eetuary. asual the Germans had installed defensive country, and the attack-vided,

A bad all the advantages of strong logistical support could be pro- at it could

formations, Realising this, General FTJXY Corna, Weg gyanoli Marshall sent ho their mainek in great profusion and ing, Americans had to depend al-

oh không mngi

suggestion Still farther South there was in the attacks agamat the that seemed to posses great merit. the job, in spite of

most exclusively upon infantry much fighting in Dovers Sith

It was that the infantry of the on the part

of the Navy, no weapons

We don's realso of the thickness Army Group. During September Dever, esilmato of the French and divisions in the United The first ships to bogan unload-

The weather want advanced, Northward through First Army's immediate effective States should be dispatched

November ingin Antwerp arrived there son' was particularly stubborn, but breast of the Third Army line probably underrated, the defensivo antipping needed to bring their

The Gernians had

doggedness finally won facing Eastward In the “dificult

tracks, and other hear Thereafter, whenever

Dieyogement heslover veterans, af Vodges Mountain area but power of Germán units, when

He and weapons are the bombs were viously such a avsteni pro

French this way, we could a. Atrong position. The vides the simplest possible frequently grralle, as they had they did so in terms of comparison penetrate into the plains of Alice offensive, found it imp form of check for the Post-

been London tho

training by y-s

atstrict.

trict, which they plated at the top of the Devers forces could concentrato I immediate enforcement would unddubt Nimber of civilians and holi s

divisions: already in the the bulk of their strength, on the vas Tommie un Colmar

principal purpose, was to, give edly bring in substantial ad werd killed" and,

pocket common.cations

garrison which establish vetoras division oppofluity to tired and depleted infantry, of a ditional revenue. But In rend supply work were often

of the same sanguinary would have to relist powerful ot

ed and pastatains itself in the this aid, the Government lation of Antwerp sustained these out the

periods.

pinned down for days as they dug

The French

Bhias, in the vicinity of Colmar. Its place on the front was defending

gary as the should not at the same time attacks unflinchingly,

tack on Devery front and breached The existence of "this pocket was by one of tha how full-trungth Ono V-2 general progress continued

Belfort Gap wit

within a week later to work to our definite di regiment do him ill by raising his shop bomb struck a crowded theatre and we reached the banks of the Roars leadings quickly reached advantago. licence fee five times. Noi almost equal number of soldiers. At the banks of the Roor

killed hundreds vilions and anRiver, where, the Ninth Army the Rhind it turned the flank

To Be Continued is there any great enthuThis enemy also employed farga

arrived on December

the "German" portion in the siasm about the increases in numbers of E-bon

Vosges and forced a Kenoral with- certain tobacco duties. What spadly type of the effect on prices: will be boat) Cand tiny, subh has not yet come to light. terfere with our 150 The Increase appears heavy energetic nail and enough, however, to suggest In spite of all unfels that an incronse of price for quickly became several brands of cigarettes Mark of our ont will prove unavoidable. The

While this Argument for the incresso

tifying op draj coming from the official' spokesman torided to give

the front the impression that Hong Kong was embarking upon Group front ont the manufacture of cigarettes for the first time which, as fim is well known, in certainly not the case. The smoker will derive no greater satis faction from the heavy in crease in duty úpor import ed cigarettes, purely on the Fround that various factors might, operate to make the locally-manufactured clzar. ette more costly than import ed brands. Bolter to have sald simply that the oppor tunity was being taken of securing greater revenue from tobacco duties and to

ouiring: the dealer to render bri altho the civiliavior character, in which, units, were tacks on two ad the nut Egtendible ground West of the tople and rehabilitate, Itself while

tein

cop

his advances were flails were now Scult country, "but he had cleared man pöcket West

met a new kind of tactical prob- drawal In front of

of the US (tarpedo lem: Farther up the river, at Seveda Arty under General

tein Schmidt, were great dams. They Patch. rimpel, to in-

This

furer, attacking: Antwerp. word of special tered" "by

by operation had d found exceedingly tough going of the floodgates in the dams be arough the tortuous passte of the action. Antwerp could vary the water level, below mountalas. un Patch'a army hern bul.

thom. This made an inmediata MAJOL Genoral Edward H. Brook fichi sya assault across the Roer River Ime VI Corps whs of the right and possible, inch any Azzopa auctos: Masta General Wado H. Haiðlípa ful in crossing could be isolated by XV Corps, formerly with Paton, gas in pro a flooding for liver and there was on the left. When Hoth flank, the

after eliminated

the dest einploy man withdrawal started because was far from ment of · Garman is

for the French,

these trad Hirst Army We

made rapid why succeedition of the dants by air

bombing inst them whe acerbourg on the atd and direct hier wum secured, the twenty-second However, the concrete structures broke out Into the Rhine plain. wore so massive that damage was Strasbourg, on the banks of the negligible, and there was no rethine, was ontored by the French coupe.axcopt. ta lake them by 2rd Armoured Division on the

the German becava valup to abreast of the Fronch Firat Army,

At the

from

The U

Arat attempted the rhagadesantwenty-fram mig" on

fame river which farthes Saum DO YOU the Melso, In Begiam and France, la calor

Becante

Cof the extended! KNOW

Tront

held by the Twenty-firat Arumband

run it was impossible at the

to inunch further strong YOUR zomery army, group, had long

inco, absorbed the B

HONG Beth economy in official expenar KONG?. ture, instead of deeply into the publ

have added that clarettes in Hon Kong will remain con- siderably cheaper than the pride for which they are sold to meet its badili » It in many other countries, to penetrate "oinfo Chfectlost › could then be | that the high Lost,

i takon only, on ground that ment is probably, that factor the financial policy of the contributing moak theimpost | Government needs revision, antly to the cuntmiling, Lair

That the Chorompt should Lonary tendency and the giva

\to | rising, cost of living,.

our troops

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