THOUGHTS ABOUT ARMISTICE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 74, 25 September 1944, Page 6

THOUGHTS ABOUT ARMISTICE DAY

The Mayor (Mr. Ap'pleton) said today that thought was being given arrangements for the full and safe and reasonable observance of Armistice Day, and probably there would be some announcement and discussion at the next meeting of the City Council. How soon or how delayed that day might be no one could know, but it would be wise to have plans in train. One proposal on which he had acted was that, besides the great outdoor jollification, there should be a really worth-while musical festival, and . a meeting of all interested societies and bodies had been called for Wednesday next.

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guns, but now it is raining again One day's clear sky would make all the difference. Meanwhile, rain or shine mortared or shelled, our men go on fighting, beating off attacks, and attacking themselves until the Second Army arrives."

Reuters correspondent at Troopcarrier Command headquarters says that Allied airborne forces and elements of the British Second Army on the south bank of the Weder Rhine near Arnhem may soon be able to launch a new offensive! The troopcarrier forces have flown more than 8000 sorties since the first airborne invasion seven days ago. The weight of the equipment and men carried is estimated to total at about 2000 tons Staff officers estimate that the losses in the air landing for all missions do not exceed 3 per cent, despite opposition. A MILE INTO GERMANY. Reuters correspondent with the Second Army says that the British [penetrated a mile into Germany and i captured Beck, on the main road to the [Rhineland. Small numbers of Second |Army troops, under cover of darkness I crossed the Neder Rhine to reinforce jthe airborne troops holding high ground just west of Arnheim. On the Canadian sector the enemy has withdrawn from the western end ! of the Escaut Canal towards the Turnhout Canal. Civilians say that Turnhout has already been evacuated. The Canadians are not yet over the canal in force. ,

Poles m the Scheldt actually crossed the water in a captured German E-boat drawing heavy fire from German batteries on the east bank, which almost sank the boat. The Poles kept it afloat until they returned to the Allied side of the River.

The sieges of Dunkirk and Calais continued without incident. Low cloud and driving rain, with gales, are preventing major operations over most of the Canadian sector.