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By Walt Disney
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THE BATTLE
FOR HOLLAND
Another instalment of the
Wireless
official Dutch account
г
reports
revented tion German Infantry attempted to This attack was storm the position.
Another un- that the Commander of the Ger- completely repulsed. man forces in Rotterdam had the order to take the city on the fifth day at any price.
successful attack was made on the following day. The Dutch forces received active support from the gunboat Johan Maurits van Nassau, which had meanwhile arrived from Book of Holland. This ship, anchored east of Den Helder, silenced a battery จด the rustern oured columns, proveeding through mat of the dyke, ai 18 kilo- |
The German general, whose arm-
North Brabant and across the Moer- meters distance. The rango dijk, bad airendy reached Rotterdam, telephoned from the fortified position
on Kornwerderzand to Den then resorted to a ruthless air bom-
whence t was wirelessed to the
directing
fire. bardment of this open cily. Before warship, thus
Ita ence to the plan of Rotterdam incldd- Owing to the foggy weather the ed in this account will give some German airforce never located the idea of this inhuman bombardment, gunbat, and the enemy probably never found out whence its bottery
the
The elly, which had not been evacue was destroyed, nted, was visited by two squadrona
The fortified position of of 27 aeroplanes cach, dropping
Kornwerderzand, therefore, remained high explosive bombs of approxim- unshaken, unul as a result of the ately 500 kilogrammes. It was not military development th the south, until the evening, that the situation. further resistance had become use- of the gallant Dutch troops became less. The successful defence of the untenabic, and since the last lines of Zuiderzeedyke shows that a casemate defence of the fortress Holland had with a sufficiently strong concrete protection can withstand the heaviest also been breached, there was nothing bombardment, including special anti- to do but to ask for negotiations for casemate shells. An armistice.
blocked.
The Fighting On The Frontier And in the Main Defensive Positions
and 2 minesweepers joined an
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SPIDER
WILL FRANCE HAVE A KING?
ried a natural daughter of
cendante of the Grand
When the Germans found that they flound Dordrecht, also, where both were unable to break the resistance parties sustained heavy lesser dis of Kornwerderzand they soon ap- pulling territory, the fighting had to peared in the little harbours on the shore ol the Zuiderzee, caatern be stopped when the armoured units where they prepared for the trans- TF Hitler puts as much faith in the predictions of Louis XIV. Philip II. mar already mentioned, joined in the port of troops across the water to of North Holland. province
of astrologers as he is reputed to do, he must that King, so making the battle, in co-operation with the Ger- the man air force. At this juncture the Since troops were no longer available fate of the line of communications to welcome the Germans on the regard the activities of the French Pretender, the Princes of Orleans, direct des had been sealed and the way of es- the rated on the Zuiderzee in elf;
coast, naval forces had to be Comte de Paris, with uncasiness, for several. Monarch cape for the Dulch army had been haste. One torpedo bont, 3 gunboats French astrologers, including Nostradamus, have
old
The Orleanist branch of the river gunboat and a number of motor- predicted that a young king will rise again to lead French Bourbons has pro-
ormed with boats
On the request of
machine France from a great defeat by the Germans to vided the head of the House nlready the authorities they were final victory which will end the reign of the Eagle Henry Charles, duc de Bor- of France since 1883, when reinforced by French and British
deaux, died without issue. Before going into a detailed ac motor torpedo boats, some of which and disperse the German empire for ever.
The Zuiderzee reached
by the count of the resistance against the A
Noordzeekanaal, while others enter- enemy it must be pointed out how ed via the locks. This happened on the bewildering speed of the German the night of May the 12th. attack played havoc with our
Meanwhile the Dutch naval forces communications. Information which had concentrated their fire especially would have given a clear pleture of on the harbour of Stavoren where the struggle could not be transmitted, they sank a ferryboat. The German and as the result the course of the airforce, however, caused some. Joss battle in this part of the country is to us. 11.M. Friso, a gunbout, was much more confused than that of the B centre. The Struggle For The Northern Access To The Fortress
"
Holland
sunk and H.M. Brinko, another gun- hoot, had its rudder and propellers damaged. It made for the harbour of Enkhuizen and there continued to function as n battery. Thanks to the timely concentration of naval forces in the. Zuiderzee the German attempts to cross the water in order to land
π
As soon *** the German foress on the open coast of North Holland crossed the trantier in the extreme had been frustrated.
north the harbour works of Delfzijl
were demolished, and the harbour The Attack On the Fortress.
entrance and the locks were blocked. These demolitions were fully carried
Holland South Of The Zuiderzee And North Of The Big Rivers
The German army,
ny, crossing the the Dutch forces, made an orderly Dutch frontier along its entire length, retreat in the direction of the Zuider- advanced with powerful forces into
out in the face of heavy German at- -tacks. After completing this work
Many people interpret the prophecies as relating to the Comte de Paris, and past events seem to fix the advent - of the royal saviour of France for the present period, for he was to rise up after the streets of France had · run. with blood as far South as Macon and after the country had been ravaged by a terri- *ble: famine such as is pre- dicted for the coming winter. He is to be helped in his task. of restoring French prestize by an army which will come to his aid through Switzer- land.
Before the enemy was in a position. however, to follow up this success, he was thrown out of his positions. by a Dutch counter attack.
The German army resumed
However much truth, there may be in these prophecies, which have been frequently quoted in France, even when the predictions of defeat: seemed utterly false, it is cer tain that the Pretender has had a larger following during the Inst few years when France has been searching for: a leader who could replace Clemenceau.
There is nothing undecided about the young Count, who, although inheriting nearly four,million francs, set out to make the farming of his es- tates a business proposition and succeeded.
in
The Count is described by his followers as the heir of forty Kings who ruled over France for a thousand years.
He married the Princess Isabelle of Orleans Brazanzo in 1981, and of this marriage he has several children.
He was exiled from France some years ago and has been Aged residing in Belgium. 84 at the outbreak of war, he asked permission to fight with the French forces, but this request was refused.
He is reputed to have te turned from Brazil, where he went a few weeks ago, and to be living near Vichy, from where he has sent the Comte de Lusignan, one of his liou- tenants, to London as a pro- paganda agent to prepare the way for the restoration of the French Monarchy.
He was also instrumental in turning barren land
into the Spanish Morocco. zeedyke in the late afternoon of May Overijssel and the Achterhock on the attack on the Grebbe line on May busy port of Larache. More, first day of the invasion. They met the 13th, and, as a result of the over- over, he is the only member the tenth joining these units, com- the
of resistance
the so-called whelming superiority in numbers; and of European Royalty who is a manded by the provincial commander frontier battalions, which, in accord the heavier equipment of the attack-
working journalist, and he of Friesland who had fought a delay- ance with their instructions and their log forces the line could no longer
runs his own paper, "Le Cour- ing action In Groningen and Fries limited numbers fought no more be held and had to be evacuated.
the This retreat, however, could barier Royal" in which he bit The Monarchist element in than a land. Together they crossed the Vasel line, which was merely an culcated without any obstruction, or terly deplored the capitula France is strong and most
deloying action. At Zuldozzeedyke in the night of May obstacto against strategical surprises pursuit by; the enemy a clear indi- tion to German dictation at loyal Republicans have a dim the tenth, and were subsequently re- and was only thinly held, the enemy cation how the Germans had ex
Munich and has frequently regret that a Monarchy and organised in the defensive position of was retarded in his advance towards hausted themselves in this attack preached against the corrup Republicant principles cannot Den Helder "The German attack or the Grebbe line. As a result of thin The main reason for this serious tion in public institutions,
be reconciled. the castern bridgehead of the Zuider resistance of the frontier battalions,
and the demolition of bridges and setback was the complete, absence an
"The Royalist newspape zeedyke, situated in Friesland, took roads the enemy was unable to bring our side of any aeroplanes, as the place on the following day. The do- up sumalent troops for an attack on Dutch airforce had been completo feuren of this bridgehead had been the Grebbe line until the 12th of y destroyed in the fighting and on He does not want a Court,, tion Francall, had, constructed during modlilation, and May. Thus, in spite of his lover the ground. The German airforce, which he thinks would des-lation, respect
eft-wing profpeted mainly by a belt powering forces the enemy required therefore met no opposition in carry troy the Monarchy and he
a period of three days to cross the ing out its work of destruction, and shows decided
the Dutch forces had to retire behind
mant: Intion. The overpowering 80 kilometres of country tierns eastern front?
the New Dutch Waterline fomnia tendency inihin
the fortre
tions, being a great ida unions a8 8
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German aircraft enabled the Grebbe line from the
the in-On Sunday the 12th he began his
same attack on the access through the inland. It is obvious that when mus
ile undation of the Grebbe line near army has been throwa
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