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Spasmodic fire from the buildings near the haystacks pinned us down in the ditch for some minutes, but after Bren gunners gave the buildings a good going-over, it stopped, and four Jerries surrendered by silhouetting themselves with their hands high, between us and the burning haystacks...
...Strasbourg, the enemy fought a last-ditch battle in a five-story apartment building-from room to room, from floor to floor-and more Germans were killed than Americans...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
...track, still rolling in the right direction. Last week on Leyte fresh infantrymen of the 32nd ("Red Arrow") Division (see ARMY & NAVY) cracked the Japanese strong point at Limon, took the town and neatly pulled the plug at the top of the north-south road along which last-ditch Japanese defenders are strung all the way down to Ormoc...
They were two entire families, the Shimizus and the Tomayasus, who had lived in small houses alongside a coal-yard near the ditch. Suspects were a brother of one of the murdered men, a former servant of both the families...