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MINIATURE WAR

Enemy Holding Out Near Antwerp (8.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. A miniature war is progressing on Antwerp’s doorstep in an area 1000 yards square, where British gunners, British and Canadian infantry and Belgian patriots are mopping up 2000 Germans and several thousand collaborators who are holding out tenaciously in the north-eastern suburb of Antwerp, states the ’correspondent of Reuter's. The centre of enemy resistance Is a five-storey brick and stone chateau, which has been holding up the Allied advance. British forces are now using anti-aircraft guns on a flat trajectory, firing from a range of 1500 yards. There is a fantastic no-man’s-land of buildings. docks, boats and bridges, in which oui' infantry are stalking the enemy. The correspondent of the Associated Press says the collaborators include a leading Black Shirt in Belgium, who was an arch supporter of the Nazis before the liberation of Antwerp. The Germans have organised sniper warfare from the windows of the multistoreyed tenements.

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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5

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MINIATURE WAR Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5

MINIATURE WAR Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5

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