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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