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By A Special Military
Correspondent
HITLER'S THRUST through France is develop- ing in two directions. It follows the famous Schlief- fen Plan of 1914, an en- veloping sweep on the right flank.
airmen
(1) The German dropped parachute troops on and around the air bases in the North-west of Holland, trying to seize them all, 28 they did in the Norwegian campaign.
(2) The German army ad- vanced westward into South Holland, between the Dutch "waterline" and the Belgian floodable area of La Campine.
Their objective was the North Sea, and they reached it near. the island of Walcheren. Then the strategic conception of the German thrust was to turn Bouthwards, always holding the ROZARIO-AŁ French Hospital, on
North Sea on the flank of the Monday, May 20, 1940, to Laura, | advancing armies. wife of H. F. Rozarlo, a daughter.
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By this manoeuvre the Ger- mang hope to secure sea bases
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The Choice Of Ruin
When the history of Herr Hitler is wrliten-it-will-record-that-no-other- ruler refused so many opportunities
and also to turn the flank of the Belgian defences.
IN 1914 the German com- mander-in-chief Von Moltke, pursuing the same plan, lost his nerve and refused to take in Holland in his sweep to the West. German strategists.have always declared that error cost Ger- many the last war.
Hitler accepts this criticism, and he is resolved to secure his
to avert ruin. The diplomacy over right flank on the North Sea.
cach conquest has revolted the rest of the world. There was doubtless never any weakening in the Fuehrer's purpose to hold fast every inch and
State Express every creature that his aggression has 555 cost a little more, but the value they give the increased smoking satis- faction they
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The Dutch had 700,000 men mobilised. These troops were ---equipped-with-machine-guns, anti-tank, and light field artil-
lacked lery. They
heavy
guns.
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alolen, But to meet the uneasiness of Germany it was necessary to find an excuse In the responsibility of the Allies. Calculations have been con- founded by their determination to The Dutch always planned, in redeem Europe from the fear of Nazi the event of German invasion, to brigandage. It remained to represent retire beyond the "water line," fare la elsewhere inedible as which was flooded at 4 a.m. on sabulage of peace.
the the morning of the invasion, in- honour of the Reich, we are told, to old Holland, letting the Ger- permit the surrender of any of the
man thrust continue towards plunder of Poland. Czecho-Slovakia,
this for German consumption-the
Never
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lands,
They then intended, sustained The honour of the flag of the Swastika is indeed dyed dark with by the British Navy from the the blood of innocent victims of const, to harry the Germans massacres for which there can be no from the flank. But the Nazi ntonement. It Is the angular dis-
THE Belgian defences
threefold.
75 MILES
North
sea
AMSTERDAM
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GRONINGEN
FRIESLAND
DAENTIT
BREMEN
ROUTES
OF INVASION
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Bruger ANTWERP
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system running south through the Belgian and Dutch forces. the Ardennes forest to the far end of Luxemburg.
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İPOSIBLE ROUTESİ OF INVASION
Winterthur Constance
ZÜRICH.
Dutch fields. He used these bonts:
in an attempt to get at the gold be--
The Belgians then retired to fore the Dutch got it away,
frontier, wards the French
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As for the vast Dutch possessions:
against, hostile action. For the US.. fleet is
in that: on manoeUVTES MUCII depended on the speed and vicinity. strength with which the Allied armles
THE Belgians are not so wealthy- were able to advance north-east through Belgium, seeking to forestall as the Dulch. But the Belgians had the German thrust at the entrench- arranged, remembering the lessons ment, running west from Antwerp to learned in 1914 when the Germans: Ostend.
captured valuable material in Brus- sels, that all their.movable assets in-
(b) Concrete fortifications where they have now joined the in the West Indies, they are secure. running south from, Antwerp Allied forces, - to the Meuse, and then behind that river to the French fron- tler.
(c) Trenches running west from Antwerp to Ostend. The Belgians have.nearly one days million men under arms. They But the Nazi mechanised machine the form of gold and securities should was too swift and in a week we saw be carried Into France as soon as the are well trained and well equip- the Germans coming first through German crossed the frontier.
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were ped, but without heavy tanks. Belgium and even piercing the forti-
No doubt these plans are already- In fact, the Belgian army is a. fcations in France behind the Bel- defensive forco.
glan frontier, which the Allies have effected. spent the Inst eight months construct-
Unction of Hitlerism to combine with attack was like nothing the brutality the most fatuous hypocrisy world has known before, and There have been many examples, but Holland crumbled in four even the living voice of the Fuehrer
the unofficial after terrible losses. can hardly surpass whine from Berlin regarding the sacrifices which Germany has made. The
self-sacrifice of the murderous burglar is a new conception in ethics. Mankind knows only too well that
The Albert Canal link- Germany is doing her best, na Berlin to create a "new order." proclaims,
ing the Scheldt Estuary and We had to expect, therefore, ing. The nature of that new ord
order has revolted
the River Mense; the fortress that the German thrust through the conscience of civilisation THE BEST CIGARETTE IN THE WORLD • COSTS SO LITTLE MORE and leagued the great alliance of tree- area of Liego; and a pill-box South Holland would separate French
dom against Hitlerism. Even Inmost circles of that faith they should by now be tried of threaten Ing dire attacks on Britain. No one ever doubted the desire of the Fuehrer and his cabal to wreak their hatred on all who oppose them. They will assuredly do the world as much damage as they can before they are overthrown.
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Boer War Rifles Found In Chapel
Eight rifles of a type used in the Boer War were found in the fire-
The Dutch larder
....
MEANWHILE the British and
air forces
are already in action. It is unbelievable that the Germans will be allowed to make use of the majority of the Dutch and Belgiari airfields, captured, as in Nor- way, by German Fifth Columnists.
I liter is checked in his tumultous culburst to the West, if" ho can be held oven minch nearer to Paris, and if severe fomuca entr be inflicted on him, it is likely'that. the baltia now being waged will be-- na decisive as the Battle of the- Marne.
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ONE word 'in conclusion.) The--
So we see the German advance bombing of Lyons indicates that: harried and bombed by Allied Air- Hitler may be launching an bftack: planes, while we look for adequate on the whole front, from the Northe protection against hostilo air nilack Sea to the Alps, We shall see in a on our troops hurrying into their few days, oven a few hours, whether postiinas,
he means to invade Switzerland.
THE conquest of Holland will wo pald her about £2,500,000 a year have two important effects on the for t
Bhatwas our fourth Inrgest supplier warring nations. 1. It will deprive of cheese, and she came next to Britain of a small but Important Denmark as a supplier of eggs. add 10 Every year we bought about 720- source of food. 3 It will
not 000,000 eggs from the Dutch and paid Hitler's difficulties in feeding
What booty will Hitler obtain in only his own people but those in £2,000,000 for them.
of condensed milk and her exports of Holland and Belgium? the conquered countries,
Holland was our bingest supplier
A thrust may be made from near: the shore of Lake Constance along the river valley of the Aar, and
Holland is a country of 8,010,000 dairy produce to Britain were worth
BUZ= He may have succeeded in grab- behind the screen of the Jurn moun-- place of a room at, the Dalston acres, of which about 0,500,000 acres more than £8,500,000, a Agurbing the large storn of Dutch gold, tains. ́
are producing some kind of food. It passed only by Australla, New
Methodist Mission Chapel, Mayfield road, Dalston, E
The fireplace had not been
$22,000,000 W
has been a valuable corner of Bri-land and Denmark. on used
lain's larder. for many years," said Mr. E. Watson, who was in the room when the dis
In peace-time. It was not so Im-
Sho sent us tomatoća, va
But, liko
production
of
Dy well as foreign securities to the value of several millions of pounds, the pass to: Portarilou and south
Such a thiruit would be almed over”
"cavery twas made." "It was boarded | portant as Denmark, but during the turnt Denmark Dutch agricul-} This treasure was stored. In the towards Lyons, as well as throught:
depends on the flow
up, and when the boards were rest six months Holland has sent of ferlisers and feeding stuffs from cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Geneva and down the Rhone Valley moved the rifles were found stand more and more food ships to Britain, abroad. Every year Holland needs The Hague, so they are all on the towards Marseilles, Ju ing on their butts at the back of the They carried bacon, butter, cheese, 750,000 tons of cake, oils, and special west side of the Dutch water line. "It
• cattle; malza for her jy probable the Dutch removed them
In such a aluation Italy might misch ergoondansedmik and all sorts fodder.
be tempted to move to Frenche "They, seem
cem to have been there a of vexetables and frudu. Their cure pla
General Stall are bearibif all th long time, The room is known as goes were worth about £13,000,000 Britain can stop those supplies, and Hiller was known to have a feet codderallon, la mitad, and are corsa
Dutch, food production will doubtless the band room, and has been used a year for many years by the mision band HOLLAND, in peace-time, was tumble to a point where Holmd will of flat-bottomed boats ready which adent of their own depositions o
our fourth-largest irco-of-baCÓ "for practice.”
not be able to feed her own people, could be paddled across the flooded meet any emergency