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being chased out of the town. The air offensive is
again in full swing this morning when
planes are seen going out in great force.
In their raids on Brunswick and Berlin
yesterday the Americans destroyed 125
enemy planes for a loss of 26 bombers and
19 fighters.
Last night bombing in France was well
concentrated, military objectives on the
coast were also bombed. Mosquitoes went to
Cologne and sea mines were also laid on a
large scale. 7 of our planes are missing,
There were no enemy planes over this country
last night. On the Channel German guns opened
up but we did not reply.
There is no change on the Russian front and
only some fighting at Tiraspol is reported. Russian
bombers attacked Kotka yesterday.
All Russian planes returned. Off the Northern
coast of Norway Russian planes destroyed
7 German planes in combat. The Admiralty gave
news of the arrival of a big convoy for Russia
on which voyage 2 U-boats were destroyed.
The largest submarine of the Dutch navy, the
Zwaardvisch of 1500 tons was commissioned in
the presence of Prince Bernhard. Dutch submarines
have a fine record in this way by sinking over
50 ships. 17000 tons of onions have been promised
by the Egyptian government. 10000 are already on the way.
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