W ELCOMINC HELE N—Ncwbold Morris, chairman of
the board of the New York City Center of Music and Drama,
greets actress Helen Hayes as she starts engagement at the center. *
ALLIES PUSH
NAZIS BACK
THREE MILES
LONDON. Nov. 6.—(AP)—-Allied
assau lrsewtt mart hamt raht ra
assaults three the Nazis back
across the Maas along a 50-mile
front to the sea, it has been re
ported today.
This front was marred by only
two small enemy pockets. The
British field officers declared that
the German 15th Army is half
destroyed in the firece west Hol
land offensive, which began two
weeks ago.
The British and Canadian arm
ies have drawn up a new barrier
16 miles south of Rotterdam on a
potential new assault line.
The British have estimated that
65000 Germans have been killed
or captured while being driven
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northward from 20 to 50 miles and
they also stated that Field Mar
shal von Model’s 15th Army suf
fered serious setbacks.
A British army spokesman said
the British and Canadian army
troops bagged 20000 prisoners in
1 thp dribe which onpoed the north
| of Anwterp.
The two campaigns has freed
1200 square miles of Dutch ter
ritory and 570000 in the Nether
lands. Already the dredges and
minesweepers are clearing the
West Schelde approach to Antw
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ENGAGEMENT
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 6.
—(AP>—Sledge hammer blows
by Super-fortresses, struck an
other initial spot in Japan’s war
today and acquired the territory
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of the great naval base at Singa
pore, it has been announced
The giant bombers of the 20th
Air Force, which since early sum
mer, ranged from Manchuria in
the north, to Sumatra in the south,
hit directly on the apanese home
islands yesterday.
The attack was directed against
the tip of the Malay Peninsula,
which Japan wrested from Brit
ain in the early part of 1942 .It
ia the longest daylight attack ever
known.
The communique described the
results as “good to excellent.”
The India-based superfortresses
also struck heavily on Pangka
lan, the Brandon oil refinery on
the north coast of Sumatra.
Long |ange raids have been
stepped up agains the enemy and
soon may grow clocklike in reg
ularity.
No spper-fortresses were report
ed missing.
BUDAPEST
SHELL-TORN 6N
DISTRICT
LONDON, Nov. 6.—CAP)—Fur
ious fighting raged in the suburbs
of shell-torn udapest as heavy
Russian infantry forces joined the
armored1 vanguard and penetrated
the defenses of the Hungarian
capital it has been reported to
day.
From the north and south the
east side side of the Danube, the
Germans said that they had re
captured the east Prussian rail
center 90 miles inside the Deich.
After surrounding the place, the
Russians reported at midnight
that a violent German counter
attacq staved off three of hte at
tacks. -
South ,the Budapest is not yet
under a major Russian assault.
The Red Army declared that
they were re-grouping the re-in
forcements in the final attempt
to save hte situation.
LIBERATORS
DESTROY NINE
TRANSPORTS
.... By CHARLES McMURTC ....
PEARL AAROD, Nov, 6.J—The
American Liberator bombers on
Thursday attacked nine transports
and two destroyers in the Chichi
Islands, also one large transort
on Haha Island all of which are
in the Bonin group, some 600
miles southeast of Tokyo.
The results of the aids were not
observed and Admiral Nimitz gave j
no indication whether or not any
shipping was hit.
The presumpt.ion is that the
bombs were dropped from such
an altitude that observation was
impossible.
er Liberators of the 7th AAF
bombed two islands on the airstrip
on Frliday destroyed two planes
on the ground and probably a i
third
Six to eight Japanese fighters
took to the air but did not attack
the five Liberators. They were
damaged by anti-aircraft however.
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Radio photo from British Ministry of Information
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the ^nine's main outlet to tire sea.
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