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September 16, 1944     No. 214  Vol. 17     20 Pages

Cover: In The Gothic Line
Lt-Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, on tour of overrun German defences in the gap punched by Eighth Army in the Gothic Line, uses binoculars to study ground over which next phase of the attack will develop.

Articles Inside:

The Week
     (Liddell Hart)
     Fifty Thousand Roaming Germans
     (Alan Moorehead, Japanese Premier Kuniaki Koiso)
     Flying Bomb Effects
     Twilight Of “Wehrmacht
     (King Boris, Premier Maraviev)

The Great Switch
Swiftly and secretly General Leese switched Eighth Army from its Cassian Way axis of advance and launched it, from a completely unexpected Adriatic start line, across the Metauro river to punch a hole in the Gothic Line. From Chief of Staff to sapper and signal man the Army achieved incredible feats. “Parade” reporter Francis Brand and cameraman Baron saw the great switch from the roads and from the air, then toured overrun German defences; story begins overleaf. Shortly after taking the pictures Baron was wounded
Sidestep, Then The Punch…
     (Gen. Leese)
     Knocking Out The East Pin
     Swift, Sure Planning
     Railhead and Pipeline
     Twenty Hectic Days
     Gap In The Gothic Line

Britain’s New Flame-Throwers

The Europe We Are Liberating Hates The Germans Even More Than We Supposed
Europe is less starved than was expected; but it hates the Germans even more than was expected — “and for the right reasons” — writes Alexander Clifford, “Daily Mail” war correspondent

The Battle Of Germany
Forecast by Christopher Buckley, war correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” with the Second Army
(Lt.-Gen. Horrocks, Field Marshal Montgomery and Prince Bernhard, Gen. Blaskowitz, Marshal Model, Gen. de Gaulle)

Defeat of the Flying Bomb
The Battle of London, which lasted more than 80 days, has been won. Norman Mears tells how fighter pilots, scientists, gunners and balloon units united to defeat the flying bomb and the success they achieved before the capture of the launching sites
(Mr. Brendan Bracken, Mr. Duncan Sandys)
     Agents’ Reports
     (Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, Deputy Chief of Air Staff. Air Marshal Sir Roderick Hill, Air Marshal Commanding Air Defence of Great Britain, Maj-Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, United States Army Air Forces and Air Vice Marshal W. Cell)
     Huns’ Race Against Time
     Gun And Fighter Zones
     The Shilling Rangefinder
     (Professor Sir Thomas Merton)

Farmers At School

Michael Mason’s Cable From London
(Gen. Dempsey, Lordship Lane. Camberwell, M. Gerbrandy, Prime Minister, Graham Stanford, Great Vance, George Leybourne, Tommy Trinder, George Leybourne, Stanley Holloway, Cyril Pletcher, Phyllis Monkman, Roma Milne, Roberta Huby and Avril Angers)

Home News
     Bristol
     (Rev. H.L. Bothamley, Chief Inspector W. G. Andrews, Lord Mayor, Alderman F.C. Williams)
     Birmingham
     (Professor Bodkin, Dr. Bernard Griffin, Mr. R. T. Honeybone, Lawson H. Perry, Senator Harry Truman)
     Merseyside
     (Alderman Luke Hogan, Mr. Philip Hirst)
     Northern Ireland
     (Billy Dolan, Tommy Armour, Eric Boon, Spike McCormick)
     Swansea
     (Reg and Will Rendall, Mr. Tom Spragg)
     The Hartlepools
     (Alderman R. H. Davison, Mr. G. Russell Vick, Col. T.G. Greenwell, Mr. David Jones, Jack London and Freddie Mills)
     Coventry
     (Alderman G.E. Hodgkinson, Councillor J.C. Lee Gordon)
     Middlesbrough
     Scotland
     (Rev James Barr, Procurator James Langmuir, Paymaster Lieut.-Cmdr. Langmuir, Sir Will Darling, Mr. James Maxton, M.P.)
     Southampton
     (Vince Hawkins, Rev. W.A.H. Barnes, Arthur Holt, Sam Warhurst, Capt. L.J.C. Anderson)
     Bradford
     South Africa
     (Commandant F. J. Burniaux, D.F.C., Commandant Burniaux, Gen. Smuts, Col. P.I. Hoogenhout)
     By Jan Marais
     India
     (Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, Sir John Child Bart, Commodore A. R. Rattray, Rear Admiral Rattray, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar)

American Chronicle

Nottingham Has Its Second Summer Goose Fair Week
(Mr. J. B. Priestley, Tommy Tander)
By Lewis Richmond

“Parade” Credits
Cover, 3-9: Baron; 10,11: British Official; 12: British Official Radiophotos; 14, 15: British Official; 16: “The Sketch”; 18, 19: “Nottingham Journal,” British Official; 20: M.G.M.

Pin-up: Francis Gifford

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