UNITED KINGDOM TROOPS DRIVING ACROSS V/ESTERN HOLLAND ARE REPORTED TO HAVE REACHED TIE RIVER MAAS. ONE OF THE ALLIED COLUMNS I S CLOSING I N ON OW. OF THE GERMAN ESCAPE BRIDGES. T H E BROKEN GERMAN FIFTEENTH ARMY I S FALLING BACK SO FAST T H A T I N MANY PLACES ALLIED TROOPS HAVE LOST CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY. YESTERDAY, AMERICAN AND CANADIAN FORCES LIBERATED ROOSENDAAL AND HERE 1 . 1 THIN THREE MILES OF STLENBERGER. BRITISH TROOPS YESTERDAY LIBERATED T H E TOWN OF OSTERHOUT. BRITISH GUNS WERE SHELLING T H E GERIvIAN CROSSINGS ALL D A Y YESTERDAY AND SPITFIRES BLASTED GERMAN VEHICLES TRYING TO GET ACROSS THE RIVER.

T H E BATTLE T O CLEAR THE APPROACHES TO ANTV/ERP I S NEARING ITS CLOSE. UNITED KINGDOM A N D CANADIAN TROOPS HAVE FINISHED MOPPING UP ON T H E ISLAND OF SOUTH B E V E -LAND AND TOOK 2 5 0 0 PRISONERS. CANADIAN TROOPS HAVE REACHED THE CAUSEWAY LEADING TO WALCHEREN ISLAND* I N T H E SCHELDT POCKET, CANADIAN FORCES HAIL' TAKEN 7 0 0 0 GERMAN PRISONERS OUT OF THE 1 0 , 0 0 0 NAZIS THAT WERE LEFT I N T H E POCKET AND THE ALLIED TROOPS ARE DRIVING THE REMAINING 3 0 0 0 INTO AN AREA 5 MILES SQUARE. AMERICAN THIRD ARMY TROOPS HAVE CAPTURED THE TOWN OF MAIZIERES NEAR METZ,

MORE THAN 8 5 0 RAF HEAVY BOMBERS GAVE.COLOGNE I T S WORST BATTERING OF THE WAR LAST NIGHT WHS N THEY UNLOADED MORE THAN 4 0 0 0 TONS OF HIGH EXPLOSIVE AND INCENDIARY BOMBS ON THAT DYING CITY. I T WAS THE SEVENTH ATTACK ON THAT CITY I N THREE DAYS. THE CE RMANS SENT UP SOME JET PROPELLED. FIGHTERS TO DEFEND THE CITY BUT ALL OF THE BIG BOMBERS RETURNED* LAST NIGHT, MOSQUITO BOMBERS MADE TWO SEPERATE RAIDS ON BERLIN AND INTRUDER AIRCRAFT SHOT UP GERMAN AIRFIELDS. FROM THESE OPERATIONS, TWO PLANES ARE MISSING. I N DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY, AMERICAN AND BRITISH HEAVIES PLASTERED T H E GERMAN RAIL 'CENTERS OF HAMM AND MUNSTER AND O I L PLANTS I N HAMBURG A N D T H E COLOGNE AREA. ROYAL NAVY CARRIER PLANES OPERATING WITH THE HOME FLEET OFF THE WATERS O F NORTHERN NORWAY HAVE SUNK OR DAMAGED 2 8 SHIPS. THEY ALSO ATTACKED U-BOAT DEPOTS, O I L TANKS AND SHORE BATTERIES.

SINCE D-DAY ALLIED TROOPS HAVE TAKEN MORE THAN 6 3 0 , 0 0 0 PRISONERS.

RUSSIA; ACCORDING TO THE GE PLANS, THE RUSSIANS I N HUNGARY HAVE DRIVEN INTO THE TOWN

OF KECSKEMET 4 5 MILES SOUTH OF BUDAPEST AND THE GERMANS SAY THAT VIOLENT FIGHTING I S GOING ON THERE. THE GERMANS ALSO SAY THAT THE REDS HAVE STARTED NEW ATTACKS SOUTH OF THE EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER ACROSS FROM. THE NAREV BRIDGEHEAD. RUSSIA SAID NOTHING ;BOUT THESE REPORTED ATTACKS. THE SOVIETS HAVE KEPT UP THEIR ADVANCE I N EASTERN. CZECHCSLOVOKIA AND H A V E TAKEN ' 2 1 , 0 0 0 PRISONERS THERE I N THE PAST TEN DAYS. RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE ALSO PUSHING AHEAD I N NORTHEAST HUNGARY.

I T A L Y : THE WEATHER HAS IMPROVED I N ITALY BUT THE GROUND I S STILL VERY MUDDY AND B I G

SCALE OPERATIONS WILL HOT BE ABLE TO BE RESUMED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. INDIAN TROOPS OF THE EIGHTH ARMY HAVE EXPANDED THEIR BRIDGEHEAD OVER THE RONCA RIVER SOUTH OF F O R L I . I N GREECE, B R I T I S H TROOPS AND GREEK GUERILLAS ARE STILL HARRASSING THE RETREATING GERMANS'," ' .TOSEK PARTISANS HAVE LIBERATED A TOWN ABOUT EIGHT MILES FROM THE YUGOSLAV BORDER? AFVTSR- ELIMINATING THE GERMAN GARRISON THERE.

PACIFIC: AMERICAN TROOPS ON LEYTE HAVE ADVANCED TO WITHIN 1 0 MILES OF THE WESTERN COAST

OF THE ISLAND. THE JAPS ARE TRYING TO FERRY REINFORCEMENTS OVER TO LEYTE FROM NEIGHBORING ISLANDS DURING THE NIGHT. GENERAL MACARTHUR HAS PLACED JAP CASUALTIES ON LEYTE I N THE FIRST 1 0 DAYS OF FIGHTING AT 2 4 , 0 0 0 . AMERICAN CARRIER PLANES AT­TACKING OTHER ISLANDS I N T H E PHILIPPINES OVER THE WEEKEND PROBABLY SUNK A HEAVY JAP CRUISER AND SERIOUSLY DAMAGED 2 OTHER HEAVY CRUISERS I N MANILA HARBOR. NINTY JAP PLANES WERE DESTROYED ON LUZON.

BRITISH AND JAPANS S I TROOPS ARE ENGAGED I N BITTER FIGHTING I N THE CHIN HILLS I N NORTHWEST BURMA. OTHER BRITISH TROOPS HAVE PUSHED FURTHUR DOWN THE RAILROAD LEAD­ING TO 5 'AND.-LAY.