Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 1

THI TIDO fTU Pi TTi 7W TU 1 m. TMI WEATMia Nanalmo and Vicinity. rartly cloudy this evening. Sunday, moderate wind, cloudy with occasional light rains toward evening. Temperatures Friday: S3; rain, .18.

ft. m. 1H st net 1 1 4 HI HOT 1344 33 13M 114 1131 0 HU lit it ii a 23 10 444 WITH WHICH IS ISCORPORATtD THZ HAHA1MO DAILY HtlULD SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR NANAIMO, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1944. NUMBER 136. TRAnsPORTPLAHE HJasRairafie Efforts Hade HUNS' MILITARY SITUATION SAID TO BE HOPELESS Soviet Army Forces Are Driving Across CITY OF BOLOGNA NEXT OBJECTIVE OF EIGHTH ARMY Open Drive On Italian Front To filKef Battle To Force Branch of Rhine Inolland and Join Pocketed DTvlsion Holding on Across the Stream; Nazi Ultimatums of Surrender Are Ignored GERMANS CUT "RESCUE ROAD" River In Warsaw Area Red Units Landing on Western Bank of River Polish Broadcast Announces; Heavy Fighting Declared To Be Underway; Partisans Attacking Germans From the Rear MOSCOW SILENT ON OPERATION LONDON (CP).

Russians are again crossing the Vistula at Warsaw and "heavy fighting is going on in sectors of the western bank where the Soviet units, are landing," a broadcast communique from Cen. Bor's Polish Partisan headquarters announced ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS (AP). Thousands of troops and big supply reinforcements were flown to the airborne army in Holland today, Headquarters announced tonight. By JAMES M. LONG LONDON (AP).

British armor and U. S. parachute troops battled today to force the upper branch of the Rhine in Holland and join a pocketed British airborne division holdinn on nrlmlv Today. GEN. EISENHOWER'S ADVANCED COMMAND POST, France Exuding quiet confidence.

Gen. Elsenhower declared today that Germany'! military situation was hopeless. The length of the European war depends, he continued, on two main factors: First, how long the Germans can stand the terrific pounding they are taking from ihe west, south and east and, secondly, how long the Gestapo remains in control of the Reich. In reply to the question of correspondents, Gen. Eisenhower said the advance in Europe was moving slowly at present and refused to commit himself on whether the war in this theatre will end this year.

There is no doubt in his mind, however, as to how the war will end. He explained in detail that Germany final defeat depends in great measure on how long it can stand up under the hammering. From a professional military viewpoint, he said, the Germans now have no hope of mounting any really effective counter-blow. Therefore, militarily, it is useless for them to continue fighting, he said. However, Gen.

Eisenhower pointed out, the Gestapo still holds the reins in the Reich and its agents have nothing to gain by surrendering. SOVIETS URGING PRIORITY RELIEF MONTREAL "Ol Russian pro- I he 'communique, made Dublic bv the Polish Government in attacking the Cermans from thejMonte Tronale. both west of cap- London, said Bor's forces were rear. jn or near Arnhem across the Sunrem Russian authorities have remained silent on the ooeration. perhaps waiting until a bridgehead within the Polish capital is secured.

1 r- i ipu i kj nuiu Ul a miis-up ui lire I rrj forces 24 hours after the relief columns battered to the southern bank. Mobile guns hammered out in support of the "Lost Division battling in defiance of Nazi surrender ultimatums. The British land drive already had linked with airborne forces Dosals for a declaration tfnomisinevNext-of-kin have been inform uroppea on me southern side of Intense Xientllie mnrltprl Ihi. iong streicn of American front in Germany and in France, and a front dispatch declared the Germans were levensftiy building defences an the east bank ot the German Rhine in expectation of ultimnto coiiapse or tneir westwall stand. Stern Resistance British and American troons meeting sternest resistance in the fighting to cross the Neder Rhine near Arnhem, relieve the isolaiwi sky troops, and fashion a SDearhfarl for invasion of Northern Germany.

But 25 to 30 miles German armor cut the "rescue road" from Reindhoven to Niimeaen lni night, and a swirling, see-saw battle raged along the route up which the British 2nd Army had pushed. The break-throueh slicing to th Fhine south of Arnhem was made in a rix-mile drive by one of Britain's finest tank regiments supported by U. S. airborne troops fighting as infantry. It already had linked un with another airborne force dropped as reinforcements just two davs south of the upper arm of the Rhine.

Eases Situation The drive vastly eased a situation which last night was described a critical. Juncture of the British prnnnH drive and the sky soldiers over the river would open the Ruhr road to Berlin, but it was not disclosed who now holds the strateeic Arnhom oriage. Fierce German attacks beat upon the pocketed British. One German counter-blow cut the Eindhoven-Nijmegen road near Continued on Pat, Four See DESPERATE EFFORT HAS FULL SHARE OF SEA BATTLES OTTAWA, There's little about modern sea warfare that Lt. John Every-Clayton of Burnaby, B.C., genial, pipe-smoking navigating officer of.

the auxiliary cruiser Prince Robert, hasn't experienced. He had his first taste of war while serving as a merchant seaman cadet out of New Zealand in 1914, and in this war he has been under enemy attack both as a merchant seaman and a corvette captain. "Long John" Clayton, as his- friends know him on Canada's west coast, was captain of the tanker "Canadalite," which was in Le tKru UPAalri Kofnr. ALLIES ENFORCE STRICT CONTROL OVER THE NAZIS LONDON O) A strict policy in dealing with occupied Germany, including the death penalty for any German aiding the Nazis or deliberately misleading Allied troops, was decreed today by Gen. Eisenhower.

As a first step, a ban was placed on the Nazi political and military organizations. All were ordered dissolved while "German laws involving discrimination on grounds of race, religion or political opinion are abrogated." said the edict, issued by Allied Supreme Headquarters. War Criminals Meanwhile the British press expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made by the Allied War Crimes Commission in preparing cases against Hitler and other top-ranking Nazis. A hitch was said to have developed over how they would be tried-whether they will be brought before a military court or dealt with on a political basis. The London News Chronicle and Daily Mail, declaring the names of Hitler GoabbeU, Goer ing and Hlmmler have not yet been placed on the list of 350 criminals already drafted, said the reason may be that the Allies have not decided how they would be tried.

Eisenhower's statement, which amplified a broadcast to the German people Sept. 18, ordered Nazi party administrative officers to remain at their posts until all funds, records, equipment and property are surrendered. At the same time it outlined steps for the installation of orderly processes by the Allied military government. Russian Girl Is Unseen Terror Of East Prussia MOSCOW (JPS. Young Rosa Shanlna who wears a sergeant's stripes on the tunic of her Red Army uniform Is the unseen terror of East Prussia.

An official dispatch from the Sesupe River front where Red Army troops face German soil, reported the girl sergeant killed five Germans In a single day as she crouched In a sniper's! hideout. Since she first trained her rifle on East Prussian targets, the dispatch said. Rosa has killed 15 enemy soldiers and her total for the war now Is 46. THE BRIGHTER SIDE the orncuL forecast Judge: "I'll Just fine you for speeding but next time it'll be Jail." Motorist: "I get it. Fine today-cooler tomorrow:" on ml M'KINLEY Little Hooe It Held for 19 Per tons Aboard Alaska Aircraft Misting Since Monday AT HIGH LEVEL EDMONTON 0.

United States Air Transport Command officials said today a report reaching Rear Echelon Headquarters of the Alaskan Department at Seattle, said wreckage of a C-47 transport with 19 passenger? and crewmen aboard had been located on one of the lesser peaks of Mount McKin-ley in Alaska, and that little hope held any aboard the plane is alive. The plane was reported missing Monday while on a flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks. A A.T.C. plane flown by Capt. A.

C. Kirkpatrick spotted the wreck age on the side of the mountain lust below Eldridge glacier at about, 9.0C0 feet Poor Conditions When last heard from the pilot of the missing plane said winds were unfavorable and that he was flying under icing conditions A rescue party will leave Fair banks for the scene which is 25 miles from the Alaska railroad between Honolu and Hurricane. It is estimated the party will have to travel 70 miles to reach the site. Col. William M.

Williams, air in spector of the 11th Air Force Serv ice Command said he circled over the crashed plane for more than an hour but saw no rigns of life Aerial photographs showed one motor torn from the plane and the fuselage badly ed and their names will be released BAN CIVILIANS FROM WAR ZONE LONDON KB. Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters disclosed today that civilian business men British, American and others alike have been banned from the military "forward zone" and added that "a "thorough investigation" will be made of assertion the ban has been violated. Allied Supreme Headquarters is sued a statement explaining the ban today, and it was known that an order against civilians starting businesses in newly-liberated areas was promulgated early this month. The London Daily Mail raised the question Thursday with charges tnat American business men were given facilities ir travel to Britain and transfer to France, while British subjects waited in vain for permission to enter France, Headquarters explained that exceptions to the rule banning travel in the forward zones are civilians accredited by service ministries, by Prime Minister Chjirchill or President Roosevelt.

SALVATIONISTS HOME FRONT APPEAL STARTS Nanaimo's Red Shield Home Front Appeal machinery has been put into motion. A meeting was called by Adjutant Honeychurch at the Red Shield Centre on Wallace Street on Thursday. The matter of the appeal was discussed, and the following com-mitee was appointed: Dr. E. Foer-ster.

chairman; Mr. N. McFarlane, secretary; Mr. H. Eakin, treasurer; Mr.

P. Maf feo, publicity. Also formei was a general committee of Messrs J. Partington, F. Honey, Ed.

Saunders, H. Freeman, J. Dudley, J. Filmer T. Parsons.

A. Burdock, E. Fletcher, G. Dor man. The headquarters will be the I.

O.D.E. Service Centre on Commercial Street, above the Pioneer Cafe. The canvassers will start out Monday and be allotted their block from the various A.R.P. Posts in the city. All collections are to be handed in at the headquarters which will be open from 10 to 10 daily.

The drive will last for the entire week. i It would be very much appreciated if the donors will help the canvassers to speed up and lighten their work. The committee will call on the industrial and wholesale: Messrs. T. Parsonsv R.

Cash-man and J. Dudley. 80-Foot Seiner Is Hard Aground VANCOUVER Nelson Brc-. 80-foot seiner Western Cruiser ran hard aground In a dense fo! in Quatsino Sound, Friday night at high, tide, while carrying 70 tons of pilchards. The crew of four is safe and has remained aboard the vessel.

First efforts to reiloat the boat under her own power proved unsuccessful becau." of the heavy fish load and because of the fact that the tide had carried her high up the shoreline. Nelson Bros. Western Warrior tar.ding by but in finding it difficult to get near enough to the Western Cruiser to assist her. The. cruiser's fish will prr.bab'y have to be unloaded by her crew before the craft can be reflosted.

of tan stream. 'a the Rhine branch. CAPTURED ENEMY GENERAL PRAISES CANADIAN ARMY WITH THE 1ST CANADIAN ARMY, Canadians who stormed and overcame Boulogne and its tough fortifications, taking more than 9,000 prisoners, today won a word of praise from the captured German garrison commander. Ferdinand Helm, veteran of the Russian campaign and the battles of Stalingrad and Kiev, said the Canadians fought well. The 49-year-old commander, who has been at Boulogne nine months while recuperating from an illness, also was satisfied with the defence put up by his garrison during the past six days.

Few Changes Although the prisoner count now is about 9,000, it is expected to exceed that figure. The strength of the garrison, originally estimated at 5,000, was 11,200. After' his capture Helm raid. There comes arr evening in every campaign this is the He was chief of staff of a Panzer Corps in the 1940 battle of France, There were few changes on tne Canadian Army front today fol lowing the fall of Boulogne Friday afternoon. Canadian infantry and armored forces who have advanced to the Schelde west of Terneuzen have pressed the Germans south of the Schelde into an "island" pocket bounded by the loop of the Leopold Canal and the river.

Only German rear-guards remain Inside the loop. R. A. F. Support Despite German radio claims there have been no major Canadian operations yet against the Channel ports of Calais and Dunkerque, where the Germans have been making attempts to supply their pocketed garrison by air.

The R.A.F.'s tactical forces flew some 400 sorties in magnificent support of the 'Canadians yesterday, 385 of them in attacks on gun positions and strong points around Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque. BERLIN REPORT NEW YORK P. The Berlin radio declared today that an entire Polish airborne division had teen landed southwest of Arnhem HI IIIC 8,000 to 9,000 men. PREMIER'S TOUR VICTORIA, Premier John Hart will leave Victoria Monday on a two-week tour of the central interior, to fulfill a number of speaking engagements and to review at first hand a number of problems which require his personal attention. due east of suburban Le Portel.

They let the Germans know it. The Canadian sent a to the forts to tell the Germans they must surrender or die. Then he wrote a note to the German commander telling him, he had already loft the battle of Boulogne and more than 7,000 prisoners. "Surrender or Die" "You have one hour to make up your mind," the message said. "Come out with your hands above your head and unarmed.

If this does not occur we will commence at once to destroy you with your garrison. You have had your warning. "Surrender or die from flames." Infantrymen reported some white flags showed but some pillboxes of Germans showed little inclination to give in, The -Canadian com-inander ordered the tanks which Thompson was leading to fire. The Germans softened Immediately and in no time at all the Canadian commander was on his way to accept the German surrender. Ro endd the battle fnr Town 70 Miles Distant, Also On Ravenna WIDE BRIDGEHEAD ROME O.

British 8th Army troops on the Adriatic flank of the Italian front have opened a drive northwest from captured Rimini on the coast to Bologna roughly 70 miles away, while other units of the 8th plunged north toward Ravenna, 35 miles up the coast and 43 miles east of Bologna. Rimini fell Thursday to Greek forces under Canadian command. American infantry of the. Allied 5th Army widened their breacn in th rontro nf th Gothic Line with the seizure of Monte Citerna and north of Firenzuola was occupied. Continue Gains These advances placed the 5th Army on the threshhold of the strateeic Futa Pass.

Columns spearing northward along the mountain roads, were meeting an enemy which Allied Headquarters declared was becom ing disorganized "to a limited ex tent." Futa Pass is approximately 29 airline miles south of Bologna. British and Brazilian forces with the 5th Army continued to make gains "against varied Resistance, said an Allied Headquarters report. The Brazilians, operating on tne I left flank of the 5th Army near the Ligurian coast, were last reported smasning forward from Pietrasanta (Cimttnutd On foy iiu See BOLOGNA RED PUNISHMENT FOR WAR CRIMES MOSCOW (ft Punishment for war crimes will be one of the Soviet High Command's main preoccupations in southeastern Europe, regardless of whether the Allies adopt a more lenient attitude in the west, it is becoming apparent. A vast amount of evidence for ur.e in prosecuting Balkan collabor-i ationists for persecution of Russian and Allied peoples has been collected and the Soviet-supervised purges of state and military machines in Romania and Bulgaria, will, it is believed, net hundreds of Axis henchmen. A fat bag of Axis diplomats and militarists already has been seized with 31 arrests announced and pre sumably many more being made or imminent.

The Soviets now hold in custody former Romanian Premier Ion An-tonescu, Bogdan Philov and Prince Cyril, former. Bulgarian regents; eight Italian Fascist diplomats; two Hungarian diplomats and more than a dozen German Balkan over lords. HUNTERS DEFY CLOSURE, PAY FINES OF $50 Five Victoria bird hunters who defied the recent B.C. forest closure order and were caught hunting on Cowichan Lake under a dense pall of smoke from the big Youbou fire, each paid a fine of $50 and costs when tried before Col. J.

H. Boyd, at Duncan on Friday. Evidence showed that the accused men were traced by gunshots heard by forest firefighters busily' engaged on the Youbou fire. On the complaint of local hunters who were obeying the closure order, a posse of for estry men and game wardens rounded up the hunters, catching them in a boat on the lake, the boat allegedly containing 23 birds and all manner of hunting equipment. C.

Burr, Gordon Sword, Stan Ross. William Tuson were in one party, the fifth man H. Y. Aylmer being arrested separately. Mr.

C. F. Davie, K.C., prosecuted for the Crown. Eisenhower In Forced Landing LONDON Gen. Eisenhowerl wrenched his kne in a recnt air crash in a marshy area in France but is fit aeain.

CBS. correspondent Merrill Mueller disclosed today in a broadcast from Paris. Mueller said the Supreme Commander's plane was forced down on a return trip from, the front 'inej an General wrenched hi knee while giving a hand to members of the crew trying to tow the plane off a spot where it had bogged down. LARGE AREAS OF HOLLAND FLOODED LONDON, A Netherlands government spokesman said today the Germans had Hooded the entire western stretch of the country up to the north-south line of Amsterdam. Utrecht and Breda with se water.

The soil may be damaged for 10 years in some places, he said, quoting refugees who reached Nij- megen. A plan for claiming territorial compensation from Germany for any such operations was urged several months aeo by Foreign i Minister Eelco N. Van Kleffens. 4 i MOSCOW (ft Soviet mine- sweepers today started clearing a raie cnannei tor tne Ked fleet to make its first combat cruise in the Baltic in three years following the capture of Tallinn, Estonian naval base and capital. To Clear Csast While Marshal Govorod's triumphant Leningrad army pushed' without pause to clear remaining German pockets from Estonia's Baltic other Soviet forces battled within the outer defences of the Latvian capital of Riga in an effort to cut off land escape routes to the south.

The pressure on Riga steadily increased. In the Balkans Soviet artillery fire rained inside southeastern Hungary as Marshal Malinovsky's Russian-Romanian spearheads are thrust close to the Hungarian rail junctions of Bekescsaba, 110 miles east of Budapest, and Szeged, also on a trunk line leading to the Magyar capital. Pressing Battle Capturing Arad, a 12-way road and rail junction only 10 miles from the border, the Russians were pressing the battle of Hungary on a 50-mile front defended by steel and concrete frontier fortifications, with the heaviest pressure 20 miles north of Arad. Driving within 38 miles of Sze ged, the Russians launched the campaign for the capture of Budapest, lying directly in front across flat country with few natural ob stacles ahead of them. The Russian war bulletin said Marshal Govorov's Leningrad army Continued on Poo two See SOVIET ARMY SPEECH TONIGHT OPENS CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON (ft President Roosevelt "The Champ" to his political assistants had his final workout at the White House today before his verbal bout tonight "With the opposition in his historic bid for a fourth term.

Four of his speech consultants were on hand late last night and early today giving a wealth of material a going-over with blue pen cil before the President himself compressed it to the 3,000 words he allows himself for a half-hour's radio talk. He speaks at a dinner of the In ternational Teamsters' Union (A. from 8:30 to 9 p.m., c.d.t. Appeal to Labor The topic has not been announc ed, but it was fairly obvious the speech would include a fresh appeal to the labor vote and perhaps few shots at charges made by Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey against his administration. In accepting a fourth-term nomination in July, the President said he would not campaign in the usual political sense, but reserve the right to reply to any "misrepresentations" uttered by the oDposition. Except for a few recent news conference remarks. Mr. Roosevelt has kept his 1944 campaign under wraps.

month after the initial assault. Winner of the D.C.M. for action In Sicily and 'one of those who fought in the battle at H-Hour. Petty Officer Robert Hickie. based ashowe for some time before his return to Canada, will go home to Vancouver.

"Hard i Sinking of the'. corvette Regina was a "bit of hard luck," according to LS. Yan Kaski, Winnipeg, who arrived' home. Some returning navy men- felt the Nazis had "missed the boat" by not sowing larger and more highly explosive mines which could have wrecked LC.I.'s instead of merely damaging them. The LCI.

men who got ashore found the reception from the Normandy French they encountered "not so hot." French traitors were with the Huns sniping on the tyarh-es and French women clung to the arms of prisoners as they were marched down from the front, "screaming and crying and cursing at our men." they stud. Among the -battle-hardened na val commandos, with their air-f land-sea badge proudly displayed on thejr khaki tunics, were A B. i Arthur Wstt of' Rjma and AR. Norman Knight of Prince Albert, priority of relief for those people1 who have suffered most, enduid longest ana resisted mosi aeier- minedly the Axis aggressors, are expected to occupy today's meetings of the United Nations relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council. L.

B. Pearson, chairman, of the council meeting, said at a press conference yesterday that this was proposal that could not be op posed by any delegate but might be most difficult to carry out. No concrete resolution to this effect had been submitted to the ouncil yesterday but it was ex pected to be brought forward at one of today's committee meet ings. Planning Sessions Meanwhile, the 'council faced the possibility of completing all committee work before night- tall with the hope that plenary meetings Monday and Tuesday could wind un the conference. Yesterday the appropriate committees approved the report of the European committee on standards of relief for the needy in that area, approved the maximum of aid to Italian mothers, children and displaced persons and aid to ward repatriation of refugees, even those of enemy nationality, who have been forced from their homes by religious, racial or political prosecution by the enemy.

JAYWALKERS TO MEET TROUBLE FROM POLICE Nanaimo residents are warned that from now on they are well advised to "toe the mark" as they cross downtown streets. Subsequent to aldermanic complaints of ay walking," the local B. C. Police detachment announces that hereafter special efforts will be made to enforce the city by-law which demands that street crossing must be at the inersection only, or at such places as are designated as safety crorsings by the painted yellow lines upon the street. Jay walking is the result of carelessness, or the expedient of those who beleive in traversing two points by the shortest possible route.

The bylaw is for general public safety and its enforcement from now on is to be rigid, say the officers. ITALIAN LABOR ROME, C-P) A Soviet celegation has arrived in Italy for a survey of Italian labor at the invitation of the, General Italian Labor Confederation. Representatives of British and American trade unions recently completed a similar survey. INTERNATIONAL WORLD WAR AT GLANCE I. By The Canadian Press WESTERN FRONT British ta.uk coiuiu.i leac.ies iieder nine river in race to relieve encircled British airborne army in battle of Holland; bitter counter attacks poured against Allied lihes from Arnhem to Nancy; U.S.

1st Army men capture Stolberg. six miles east of besieged German frontier stronghold of Aachen. Rl'SSIA Soviet Baltic fleet prepares to use Gulf of Finland after capture of Tallinn. Estonia capital; Red Army tanks sweep close to Romanian Hungarian frontier, seize Arad. important junction 10 miles from border.

ITALY British 8th Army fans northwest and north from captured Rimini in strikes toward Bologna and Ravenna; Americans thrust to Threshold of Futa Pass, 29 miles South of Bologna. PACIFIC Tfkvo rad'O betrays fears of invasion of Philippines. I i cani ulated In 1940 On its next nad been ann-Vhl heated." By German account this hvVJ lit rilvt make two airborne divisions hu lv Hinting in the Arnhem sector, one H'lmlnS I British and, one An air-He took over command of the Canadian corvette Shediac In June "sually number 1941, and for the next two years he was in the thick of the battle of the Atlantic on convoy escort duty. In 1943, Lieut. Clayton left cor vettes and Joined the Prince.

Robert as navigating officer. Five months later he was in the thick of action again when German bombers attacked a convoy the Prince Robert was protecting. NAVY HEROES OF INVASION DAY LAND AT HALIFAX ON FURLOUGH CANADIAN TANKS FORCED NAZIS DEFENDING BOULOGNE TO YIELD HALIFAX Beach Commandos of the Canadian Navy, who helped clear the Norman' sands under heavy enemy fire, and Navy-landing craft men who carried tne D-Day troops Unto the invasion, have returned to Canada ovi leave. The seamen.1 first large group of sailors on their job to get bark to Canada, agreed there was nothing glamorous about their task; it was Just hard work. With them came a numler of survivors from the sinkings of H.M.C.

S. Regina and MCi. None H'oanded None of the hie contingent had been wounded, though all had seen 1 action either tn the English Channel or the eastern Atlantic. Some of them wore the khaki battle-dress of the Commandos. Others were regular Navy uniform as they "landed.

The combing OPS men had practised landings for months with Canadian troops before the real thing: came off. They were in agreement that ctv-ooeration between Allied forces of all kinds on D-Day wss excellent But they were disappointed because instead of sprarhending invasion forces, for which they had been trained. WITH THE CANADIANS AT LE PORTEL, France A formation tanks led by Lt. A. P.

Thompson of Sourls, brought the finish to German resistance at Boi logne yesterday not by an attack they put on but solely by their resence, poisd and wailing to have a last crack at this German garrison. When he surrendered, the German commander. Heim, said it was the tanks that forced his decision, since he had nothing left with which to fight off armored attacks on, his last fortified position. Had Everything It was fortunate for him and for who remained in the garrison -ith him that he did surrender. The Canadians had everything they needed to have Riven him a pounding from the air, from tanks and flame-throwers, 'rom artillery and from infantry weapons; After six days' fighyng for Bou-Uign they had about lot patience with ihi hnlrfroit fnrr in tr fnrtl hill southeast of Boutngne and they diln't see France until orelSwk..