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COMMUNIQUE NO. 207
 01 November 1944

HEAVY FIGHTING WENT ON ALL DAY YESTERDAY ON THE CAUSEWAY LINKING
 ZUID BEVELAND AND WALCHEREN.

BETWEEN OUDENBOSCH AND BREDA WE HAVE REACHED THE LINE OF THE RIVER MARK.
 CROSSING HAVE BEEN MADE DUE NORTH OF OUDENBOSCH AND ON THE MAIN ROAD TO
 DORDRECHT, NORTHWEST OF BREDA.

NORTHEAST OF OUSTERHOUT OUR FORCES HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE GOOD PROGRESS.
 WE HAVE REACHED THE RIVER MAAS NORTH OF CAPELLE.  RAAMSDONK, SPRANG AND
 WAALWIJK HAVE BEEN TAKEN AND WE ARE IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF WASPIK.

IN SOUTHEASTERN HOLLAND, THERE HAS BEEN HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE VICINITY
 OF LIESEL.  THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DRIVEN FROM THE TOWN.

ALTHOUGH WEATHER CURTAILED THEIR ACTIVITIES OVER THE GREATER PART OF THE
 BATTLE AREAS, FIGHTER BOMBERS ATTACKED A SUPPLY DUMP TO THE NORTHWEST OF
 SAARBURG.  ONE FIGHTER IS MISSING.

IN THE AFTERNOON, HEAVY BOMBERS ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS, ATTACKED THE
 SYNTHETIC OIL PLANT AT BOTTROP IN THE RUHR.  ONE BOMBER IS MISSING.

LAST NIGHT, HEAVY BOMBERS IN STRENGTH ATTACKED COLOGNE [KÖLN] [KOELN]; THIS BOMBING
 WAS PRECEDED BY AN ATTACK ON THE CITY BY LIGHT BOMBERS.

HEAVY ARTILLERY EXCHANGES TOOK PLACE NORTH OF BACCARAT.

OUR TROOPS HAVE ENTERED ST BENOIT, EAST OF RAMBERVILLERS, AGAINST
 STUBBORN RESISTANCE.

EAST OF BRUYERES, THE VILLAGE OF LES POULIERES WAS FREED.




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