In Arnhem, Canadian infantrymen had to battle for every house. But in the Canadians’ sweep to the North Sea, resistance virtually ended with the fall of Groningen.

In the industrial hedgehog of the Ruhr, the watery flatlands of The Netherlands and the stream-scalloped woods and plains of northwestern Germany, the fighting last week was a sample of what the Allies may expect in many a pocket. It was several kinds of warfare: hard battling against solid centers…

Along the NLs front Canadians had to battle for every yard. Germans blew dikes, set up new lines behind 400 square miles of flooded lowlands.

It was a week of almost incredible military events. In six days the western Allied armies took 189,611 prisoners; in all their battles in World War I the Americans had taken less than one-third of that total. In those six days at least 25,000 Germans had been killed or…