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avenues of advance to build the bridgeheads
and he said vehicles were going bumper to
bumper. During the last 24 hours we destroyed
125 barges in the Scheldt estuary and also 18
locomotives. Fighter bombers, rocket firing
Typhoons were all active and on the airfields our
planes are using an aircraft is landing or
taking off every 3 seconds. Frank Gillard
reporting on the advances in the West of Flanders
said the country is intersected with waterways.
He visited Ostend this morning. The Germans
demolished the well known Kursaal there two
years ago and erected on its site a huge
blockhouse. On Wednesday last the Germans
blew up their ammunition dumps which
did damage the town.
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