and today the Germans say they abandoned the town.
In Italy the pace of the advance is being kept up. We are now
8 miles short of Arezzo. French troops have made further
advances after the capture of Siena. On the coast we are
less than 15 miles from Leghorn. The advance on Ancona
is being made by Polish troops. In Burma Aekrae (spelling?)
in the Manipur Hills has been captured. We have closed in
on it from 2 or 3 sides for 3 days. Stilwell's troops
alone killed 17000 Japanese troops in N. Burma.
The Dane's big strike in Copenhagen has led to a
victory for the strikers. American troops in
Normandy celebrated Independence Day today.
It was stated today that in Scotland there are
1.250.000 acres under crops and Scotland
produced 14% of the total foods production of the
UK.
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