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by declaring the notes of over 100 francs invalid. New notes will be issued but it has been done to avoid that black marketeers retain the money they earned. No more than 2000 francs will be issued so that nobody will have funds to pay high prices for black market goods. At 4.45 pm. it was said that Brussels not seen meat for 5 weeks. The grain crop has been saved but there is little spirit to keep the threshers going. Everything in Belgium is going fairly normal again.

8/10/1944. 11.45 BBC. 12.= pm. Frank Philips Home Service

North of Aachen the Americans broadened their wedge. 2000 prisoners have been taken. The new attack northeast of the town is aimed to link up with the forces 15 miles to the North who are on the outskirts of Gelsenkirchen. The doors of both pincers are only 4 miles apart and commanded by the American guns. The Americans had gone on more than 5 miles but resistance is stiffening. Tramcars which the Americans captured were loaded with dynamite
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