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captured as well as 400 prisoners.
There is no late news about the battle
on Leyte. The island is 115 miles long and
nowhere the American beachhead is
less than 4 miles deep. 2 towns 20
miles apart and their airfields have
been captured. To avoid losses the
Americans used infiltration tactics.
6 ships and 50 Japanese planes were
destroyed. The beachhead is being attacked
by small groups of Japanese planes.
The airway to Paris had been opened
again. 18 Paris streets have today been
renamed after leaders of the resistance
movement who died in the struggle
against the Germans. The French service
of the B.B.C. "Les Français parlent aux Français"
is being broadcast for the last time
at 9.30 tonight. Other French programs
will of course continue from London.
30000 tons of coal have been burning
for months in Derbyshire. In his war
report Frank Gillard said that the 2nd
Army attack is going well. He also
reported on the attack more to the
West and said that mines had been
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