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THE SEVENTY-THIRD INSTALMENT

Pas

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

Was

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe

of

also prepared, in the event the

Good Morning!

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tho

Germons in Denmark should de- It is not quite correct to say elde lo fight to a finish, to pro- that there is nothing to be got- vide additional strength for an out of further talks with altborne attack to cross the Kiel Hussions, 4t least, we always Canal.

get the envoy back. When Bremen Anolly fell to

complain's ' April 20,1

The Government Montgomery's force the resistance in his front be that the number of applications. He for Defence Medals is disap- pointlag. Most of us want to. know what else to use for chest expanders.

vances.

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"Five Born Every Hour," says a heading. But we always u minute. decatood that it

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ngtrieved

Mikado"

whils

While this decisivo advance, was taking place in the centre the the Twenty-first Army Group on

and the Sixth on Noril South were both carrying out the operations assigned to them.

In the Nori Montgomery's Twenty-firat Aguty Group adyahs- Reporters & General Office 32312ed toward Bryunon and Hamburg

(tour lines)

and pushed a colum forward to

the slightest Came markedly ivenker..

quickly transferred his main the Elbe to protect the Northern been shattered in the great de who never caused

whose breadth of Subscription Rates:

flank of Bradley's alyance, Mont bucle of 1940. Consequently when trouble: men

Corps, which upcheil an ate gomery's Eastward: advance was the Torch invasion of 1842 again vision, and understanding of the sort to the rector of the British H.K.$30.00 carried out mainly by the British gave patriotic Frenchmen an op-issues at stake made them splen-tack across the Elbe, on April 20

nilies. 1. personally liked

U.S. XVIII Corps made a The Second Ary. while the Canadian portunity to join in the night ald

65 1 simultaneous crossing somewhat H.K.$71.00 Army thrust Northward through against the Nazis they were sen- General de Gaulle,

ast sitive, to nil questions of nation.cognised, however, that there funk protection to the British Arnhem clear North East

to

hef pride and honour. Added him many fire quali to the South and provided right

tlea. We Eastward toward

Nazi a hatred which seemed to sensitiveness and an Eastword

st advance

the

ary British Second Army, with be intensified against some

political and stubborness in matters which

On May 1 the 11th Armoured This naturally Follows. Lo. us. inconsequential oppeared" three corps in the front line, their own former on top of all My own wartime contacts with Division of the British 8 Corps

on Tuesday Professor Simon n brilliant dash gjerass began

a lecture on Mr. Stalin's roplies to reached the Wener on April and military leaders.

the Elbe on April 19. At Bremen this was the uncertain basis on him never developed the heat Schleswig-Holstein to the Baltic night gave questions put to him by an the British Army encountercal an wilch rested De Ghulle's author that shemed to be generated fre- and entered Lubeck on the after "Some Thoughts On Learning a

Language. ity and that of the governmental American correspondent in

determined to

resist enemy, forco

the enemy in Denmark and also qut the swear-words, is there Moscow under, it is strongly to the bitter end. The British 30 organisation he had installed in quently in his meetings with toon of May 2. This scaled all Farcian

the dependence of suspected, a certain amount Corps reached the outskirts of the France. A further factor was the any others.

Giraud was my friend. He was preventest any of the defeated anything to say on this subject. complete

with correspondent is nspiration, have natural-city April 20, but a week of bitter Franch Army, and indeed of con- a fighting man

and thoroughly forces In Germany from ighting

necessary before aderablo' portions of the popula- honest and straightforward, His drawing into that country. ly attracted wide attention

Bremen finally surrendered,

..in Montgomery now rapidly con- because "The interest tion, upon American supplies. complete lack of Moscow's comment. and

Likewise, the Northward advance

ob-solidated his gains all along his pinyed over Radio Hong Kong Wot not listening. front and on May 3, simultaneous

the US, when he pressure on of the Canadian Army on Mont. This was on additional irritant to political rontiers, however,

viously po although they

disqualined him for Norway in a bid to scare that gomery's loft initially encountered their pride and,

How constantly insisted-upon the neet

in his country's

try's XVIII Corps made contact with these unco-operative

Russians in Montgomery's ment departments! klod country out of the Atlantic come desperate resistance.

Koenig, wore for greater amounts of every

sector, With Berlin in names and satisfactory

advances were

Koeliz, and

the Northern flank of the Red hpriest, Army Pact and continuous ful-mads all along the line and of equipment and materiel, they service Generate ruble Junior

Tass Arnhem was captured on 'April.15; were naturally galled by ike re officers were cours.

attack sweeping in our by the minations

The direction across Gerpany, all re: further Agency and Moscow Radio The fall of Arnhern was the signal allation that without those sup- and capable

names of Generals Mast and

and sistance All thla tended to make

and their neroclatea Bethouart directed against the Western for the enemy in that sector to plies they were completely help-and

associate Germans withdraw into the Holland fortressless.

them peculiarly sensitive, and who first risked their

· back lives In countries, form

behind flooded areas which posed a contrast to Mr. Stalin's easy serious obstacle to an advance into therefore dificult to deal with order to bring about restoration the Russian front" now

when they could and in any ques words and natural instinct Western Holland. dictates the wisdom of await- Montgomery believed, and on, no matter how trivial, any of France through Allled Inter-giving themselves up

daily received these prisoners by was still half-füli.” greatness of Patriotiem and ing evidence that such words agreed, that an ramediate cam thing that they thought involved vention in Africa will always live Anglo American armies. Ameribery was not the motive, e-

the thousands.

"Many young people would character.

On are likely to be supported paign into Helland would result in their national, honour. Nevertbe- as symbols of the highest kind can, troops standing on the Sibe cause the victim's cigarette case

Kreat additional suffering for that less. America's Investment in the

left hand fe impossible without thefe French forces paid

group magnificent

With Bradley's army Four leading unhappy

had, in the cocktail friends," states A Canadian by deeds.

country whose people

dividends. from

firmly established badly suffering questions were put to the wok of foods huch of the coun- French were helpful but extreme-final Allied moves of the came up its entire front except that

on the meantime, continued. Its success-clergyman. It's meet and drink In the African campaign the stage was now set for the ful operations and rapidly cleane : Soviet leader, and answering inck of

had been laid wasta by delibor.

Capes of fish have been stolen ate

was concerned. they independent commands in the Russia's willingness to con- bombing, and by the erection of ing

Holland, where the from Jorrics at, Aberdeen. Alas, the into Westwenty-fifth Army frst took 1 significant North and South and had no

He guts stolen by sider the issue of a joint German defences. We decided to

of restoring a single front Germany Twenty-fifth Army was poor fish! operations into Holland part in statement postpone Russo-American

or entrenched. either the Russians or We knew that conditions to declaring that neither would and to do what we could to al-In late 1943 and early 1944 the excellent work. Moreover, they

Germon about him, the go to war against the other. leviate suffering and starration French corps in that theatre did

arrang the Dutch poopla, To the second question, he

The mission of Doverg Sixth Performed brilliantly in the invaaldier last, all desire declared Russia's readiness Army Group during the early days san of Southern France, in the to co-operate with the Unit-of April was to protect the right penetration of the Vorges Moun- tains, and the advance to the up- per Rhine. Their

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natural

ever,

of

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from pegon to tha

of these, he indicated Anding of the ground; by by weak. So far as henry, dehl-paign. The enemy was spilt Intait mndé no attempt to turn back

ed States in measures to im- Dank of Bradley & advance.

To

the war

In Italy.

With his world collop Holland had been steadily de

sing

to fight, teriorating and, after the

from

the

Announcement that

Govern-

the new hotel rates legislation has been prompts postponed, Ernie Eamest

ta Enquire "What is a translent?"

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London crime report.

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book or crook..

»j d{di

care for my hus❤

ad-

In isolated instances didvance of our armica had isolated

Dutch situation intolerable. three information avaliable

feared that

gmong

their

plement such a pact of peace (ganised a methodical advance by rapidly..fell off with the arrival anders succeed in main- 19e arga

carry out this mission Devers or-

a

emciency

grows on one."

and beard, ut first. but b

I'm very alad it doesn't grOW

almost on me!

me, I

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and non-aggression and lead- Patch's Seventh Army on his left winter, weather, In late-1044/weeks; of April. the Western Al- wholesale starvation one of his properties do not

ing to mutual disarmament. and

In reply to the third ques

tion, Mr. Stalin reverted tar

reach

word

on the

they conducted a ground and

lics

Was

began,

14

Presume,

With that

¡would, great #1 des÷1 white-Wash does not cover the

of Britain, France and the BO seriously demand the island of Okeron. This the country. We know, also they out to him

withdraw

...

been

carlyoning of!

to

that

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sidered as an obstacle: that and strong that the texted, the French erő great fighters that prea remained important in the country, and: the Go intro4onsidered that, continued oc-

Resistance in the French sector

cohesion During the first

A HK landlord says the monthly rents he collects from captured more than a rallion

would take place and decided because of the large proportion of ກາ the French First Army on

the cost of white- eir prisoners. in their African native troops

Even before the Allied advance take positive steps to prevent eran caver to Army, who were ungble

I still refused to consider a major washing the bullamg tially the".

ontture

across central Germany

offensiva. Into the

Not the result, we opposition the Sixth Army Groun the cold and exposure incident to

knew that the C German Goy

to 1845,

ernment the Russian thesis that the was general and, despite the de- campaigning in a European win-wo

how-

preparing lonsovacuate Berlin. The

and suffering have re-building. adminis

the enemyle opening German problem must be bacle in the North and the dally ter. In the spring of

amices scemed to. bc

dykes would further bayo "Child," said the schoolmaster, solved as a whole, suggested losses of battle, the Germans can ever, during the final operations ovac

moving to the Southward, vanced gallantly and effectively one more effort by the Coun-nued stabbarnly to resist. When of the war, the French Army ad-trati

the Seventh Army roached the

gaden in the Nalleriat Redoubt, much of its fertility for years to broken the eighth commandment cil of Foreign Ministers to Neckar River it had to fight hard to occupy great portions of South-sibly, we thought, to Berchtes-flooded the country and destroyed "do you know that you hato

the Germany. At em and than

the time he

Continuation of the movement come I warned General Blas; by stealing your comrade's Ice an agreement; and

la estabish a cropping

Croam?" called for the suspension in required a week to reduce the campaign; against the Germans was no longer possible.aftet kowitz, the German commnanger "weli sir," replied the unre-

after in Holland, to, refrain from open- the meantime of the efforts gurrison in the town of Heilbron on the Bay of Biscay, that result Bradley's speedy advance harred ing any more dykes and painted penitant boy, "I thought I might eighth further North-South traffle perosN The German troops in this ed in the liberation of Bordeaux furil

Impede the and have the ice-cream unable to nodo.in Holland nothing he could just by well break the

break the tenth and covet it” **** United States to create a by the great Allied advances of operation had been repeatedly Haller that that he was making speedy, collapse of Western German State. He February and March as were those

postpened since

ace the autumn of

The Nazi High

COFFE added to the keen interest who had, borne, the brunt of our 1944 because of more urgent do his last standi in Berlin. Never in Holland, Scyss-Inquart, offer-

attacks

April 7 7 the 10th manda elesewhere. The battle theless, the strong possibility

truce. a truce. -If in this reply by conveying Armoured Division: made a thrust carpmenced on April 14; a weak still existed that: fanatical Ned a local solution by ¡proposing Ingvart `a`warning that. I would Allied forces tolerate na interference with the the the impression that the Ber- in the direction of Crailsheim but later the Gironde had been clear would attempt 10. establish them lin blockade need not be con- German reaction was so speedyed to the sea; by May 1,

Redoubt, would refrain from any West relief programme and that if tho selves in the

ward advance into Holland no Germans were guilty of any breach division had

reduced. When apfront the had

to further flooding would take place of faith I would later refuss.

treat them as prisoners of war. from Russia would lift it at once to Provided the Western Powers Peached Nurnberg April 16 bit bers of

positionstily

The XV Corps Among the French were num-jun. In the North: also, there re-

would for would co-operate in: the ned weighty reasons Important individuals mained

tuck duction of relief supplies. My cupation of Holland by the Ger agreed to meet Russia on again, several days of fighting

viu, speeding up the planned attuck duct

military, superiors had already mans was senseless and that apy in the direction på Lubeck, (2) other points. It is impos were necessary before the defences

given mg. g.fr hand in the mat further repressiva acte for which

should The Lubeck advance would fer

my they were responsible sible to study, the Stalin of the city finally collapsd.

capture the last remaining sub the coral Smith, to punished At the conference Geh

General statement and deny itim-

chief of staff, But so strong. After some

marine buses of the German and meet Seyns-inquart on April 30, eral Smith als prope portance, however scepticali

fighting the immediate

would effectively eliminate the ev

They... agreed upon methods of German commander Blaskowitz But at once strikes the dis-vicinity at the Rhine the French

of that once serious

forces introducing food and

supplies

his; should surrender passionate observer that all advance became

rapid

We could

which the Allies had already, ac once, Seyas-Inquart reported, not predict the W Russian moves affecting the The French Army, of course,

Lever, that, as long as the cumulated for the purpose. netion of the German occupa}scala, deliveries began faimediata)S; FAM

Government held out,,, Blaskowitz realms of foreign policy went into the attack under the of

of General Dovers, who was

before this wo had been could under no circumstance.capite must be viewed as a

choose to bonding small amounts of good luge, co-responsible for the allocation of ordinated whole. The Maratmy boundaries, routes of supply,

region stubbornly shall Plan, Western Union, and all the other, Administrative arrangements necessary for troop the North Atlantic Pact and

malatonança

throughout

his army the formation of a Western group. These

placed German government are all the city of Stuttgart in Patch'e bitterly denounced. Stalin Seventh Army zone, because the 1) LTD. Simultaneously throw outin supply

would necessarily run through that} feeler towards a tete-a-tete place. The city was captured by with President Truman, the French, who afterward refused America's cautious response, to evacuate to permit ite se by So dnrialding. were the and there has been virtually

their In

assertion national prestigo no official comment beyond

colved an expression of President

that the argument Truman's willingness to meet was referred to me Stalin in Washington, is Devers to stund frm and to re dulró compliance with his plan. more than justified. The The French still groved obstinate peace of the world doubtless and referred the matter to Paris. depends upon restoration of Not content with this, General de confidence between the Unit- Gaulle continued to maintain an LOVEIT→ ed States and Russia as to ugyloiding attitude on the

mental lavel in his reply to a warded message from the

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