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September 19, 1941.
KING LEOPOLD'S CO-OPERATION
Leopold of the Belgians
LOYAL WITH
THE ALLIES
History of Events Which Forced Him at Last to Forewarn Them of Surrender
wero
with the British Army if it sidered that a withdrawal to the operated to the southward was Yeer was a physical impossibi- not fully appreciated. Ho lity under the pressure the A would like above all other things enemy
exorting, to co-operate with us, but it was withdrawal over roads thronged a physical impossibility under with refugees, without ade- the existing geographical con- quate fighter covor, would be ditions. His Government had costly and would only and in been urging him to leave Belgi- disaster; moreover, It would abandonment of all um before the Belgian Army menn the 'found it necessary to capitulate. thoir ammunition, stores and Of course, he had no intention food. of. deserting his army. If the On the other hand, his G.HQ. British Government understood
onco.
his motives, he did not care declared that a British counter- what others might think, attack on the vulnerable flank sent a telegram in this senec at of the enemy must be under- taken if a disaster was to be averted, and that the opportuni- The difficulty of reorganising ty might only last a few more the British divisions for the of hours. fensive ordered, along roads crowded with vehicles and 'refu- ...
gees, was apparently not taken.
Although King Leopold did
into account by the French High Command, and before the not know at that time, and no allack could be mounted the message
to this effect ever
communications of the British reached him, Lord Gort had al- the ready received orders to with- Army with its
draw to the coast and was pre-, Channel ports had been cut.
bases at
On the night of May 23, with paring to do so. Meanwhile the fighting on the Belgian grave misgivings, King Leopold front had been continuous for fell back as desired from his four days, and the Belgian
Tabuse
flood.of poisonous I sent a telegram to this strong position on the Scheldt Army, short of food and am- which was effect to the Prime Minister and to a very much weaker one be munition, had withstood a tre-
Thongkong Telegraph directed at King Leopold after Lord Gort, and I gave
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COLONY'S ECONOMIC
bushel7.
in-
away the enemy,
the Economic War Effort Com
a
the capitulation of the Belgian to Lord Gort personally Army In May, 1940, was, of next day.
course, inspired by certain On May 21 I was with
Frenchmen seeking a scapegoat
copy
hind the Lys. At the same mendous onslaught from eight
the time he sent the 68th French German divisions, including
reserve flank
Division-one of the two
several armoured units sup- King French divisions which were in ported by wave after wave of on the Belgian left dive-bombers. Fighting with to cover their own failures and Leopold at Ypres when he met
and under his orders great gallantry, the Belgians Gen. Weygand, the. new across the Yaer in Belgian had delivered several counter- shortcomings.
Generalissimo of the Allied
'buses and lorries to Gravelines. attacks, sinin some thousands of As I was with King Leopold
armies. at the headquarters of his army
The only Allied troops left in Germans and taken several hun- throughout the brief campaign Gen. Weygand is an old Belgium were the 60th French dred prisoners, but they were in Belgium, and at the same friend of mine and was a loyal Division.
nearing the end of their resis- time in close touch with the colleague on an International On May 24 Gen. Weygand tance. headquarters of the British Committee on the Dardanelles, told the commanders of the
and Army and Government, I had over which I presided at Lau- British Army
On the evening of May 28 a French unrivalled opportunities for ob- sanne in 1922. He seemed as Northern Army that the ad- break through the Belgian line serving the course of events. I alert and vigorous as ever, but vance of the French Army from by the Germans seemed to be am glad to have this opportuni- I felt that he had taken over the southwards was going well, inevitable, and the King moved ty of declaring that King Leopold was steadfast in his loyalty to the Allies and did everything in his power to help their armies.,
...
The King's bearing was al- ways calm and courageous un- der the heavy blows he and his people suffered through the trenchery of Germany, and the failure of the French to prevent the German armoured columns from forcing the Meuse at Sedan, and thus from threaten- ing the right flank of the Allied French-British-Belgian Army to the northward.
By Admiral of the Fleet
SIR ROGER KEYES, M.P.
As Admi. Sir Roger Keyes was appointed Britain's special liaison officer to King Leopold of the Belgians on May 10, 1940, and remained with him till the night of May 27, the narrative here recorded is of high historical importance. It forms a substantial part of the preface which Sir Roger contributes to a new book ("The Prisoner at Lacken," Cresset Press, 10s. 6d.) by Emile Cammaeris on the King of the Belgians,
the remaining French 60th Divi- sion in Belgian vehicles to a prepared. position across the Yser, which by now was flooded over a wide area and its bridges. mined.
On the morning of May 27 King Leopold asked me to tell Lord Gort that he feared a mo- ment was rapidly approaching when he could no longer rely on his troops to fight or be of fur- ther use to the British Army.
debacle. He
command too late to save the and he ordered them to attack He would be obliged to Bur Northern Army, and unless he vigorously to the southwards, render before a
fully appreciated that the
At that time King Leopold
WAR EFFORT HONGKONG is making an economic war effort, but what it is outside of paying war taxation and bearing the burden of evacuation-one can only guess and hope. Quite reason- ably, those who are in control of this effort declare that it would be contrary to its interest and effectiveness to reveal many of its features, yet surely there is information of excellent pro-
could galvanise the French in order to close the gap behind paganda value which could be mnde public. Cables are con-
troop in our sector into action the German Panzer divisions British Array-had-done-every- thing in its power to help Bel- the outlook was pretty grim. which had broken through.
glum, and he asked Lord Gort stantly being received in Hong-
King Leopold had placed him-
Gen. Weygand confirmed the By this time the Belgian to believe that he had done kong and published in the news- self and his Army under the orders which had been given to Army was heavily engaged, and everything in his power to avert papers of the different forms French High Command. In ac- the French and British armies it was evident to the Belgian this catastrophe. I sent this the war effort is taking in coun-
cordance with the orders he re on May 20 and requested King G.H.Q. that they were faced message by wireless to Lord tries like India, Canada, New ceived, and conforming with the Leopold to withdraw from the with an attack by, eight or nine Gort, as all telephone communi-
movements of the French Scheldt to the Lys, in order to Zealand, Australia and Africa. Northern Army and the British allow the British Army to retire German divisions with the ob- cations had been cut, but I un- Why then should Hongkong so Army, the Belgian Army had to behind the strong defensive jeet of driving the Belgian Army derstand he did not receive it. shyly hide its light under the retire day after day until it position on the frontier which to the northward and severing reached the Scheldt, where it it had constructed and occupied Army, which was now lying be- its contact with the British
Without giving
was hoped that a final stand throughout the winter-pre- formation vital to
another day, but by the after- would be made. The Belgian paratory to attacking to the hind its winter line on the hoped to be able to hold out for
frontier.
noon the German army had G.HQ. was catablished at St southward with the French Andre, outside Bruges.
Army.
On May 25 King Leopold re- driven a wedge between the Bel mittee could release statements
On. May 20 the French High
ceived information which left gian and British armies and. about the progress of the work Command ordered the British
him in no doubt that the British pierced the line in two or three On our return to Bruges
village which would serve to stimulate and French Armies to prepare the public imagination
and to fight to the south-westward King Leopold told me that he Army was about to attack south- places. Every road,
that he could best help by keep- Belgium left in Belgian hands would, almost certainly, quicken to regain contact with the main had agreed to take over the line warda. In view of this he felt and town in the small part of
French Army to the southward, of the Lys as far as the frontier their desire to make greater I was at the British G.H.Q. at in order to release British divi, ing touch as long as possible was thronged with hundreds of with its left flank. He had al- thousands of refugees, and they personal contributions towards Wahagnics when these orders sions to carry out the offensive the war effort. This is some- were received and it was gener- contemplated by Gen. Weygand, ready withdrawn his mechanised and the troops were being mer cavalry division from the left cilessly bombed by low-flying thing about which the public ally recognised that the aban- although this necessitated his flank on the coast to reinforce aircraft.
the right flank, and he now gave should be taken into confidence, donment of the Belgian Army placing practically the whole of
was inevitable unless it could the Belgian Army along a front orders for the 16th Division further to help his Allies, King Leo- discreetly, of course, but with a
conform with this movement. of 90 kilometres, opposite which (Infantry with no artillery nor did told me and the British and view to securing an active res-
The King of the Belgians a number of German divisions
he intended to ask for an ponse. Complete silence firstly thereupon asked me to inform had been identified. He felt, machine guns), from the Yser, French Missions at Belgian G.H.Q. irritates, then creates apathy, the British Government and however, that the projected
avold further slaughter of his Borcly- * and neither tends to encourage Lord Gort that the Belgian French British offensive had This exhausted all his reserves. armistice at midnight in order to tried people. The British Mission informed the War Offee by wireless, realisation of the Colony's war army existed solely for defence been delayed too long and, at
and possessed neither tanks nor this late hour, the only hope of On the morning of May 26, and the message was received in effort potential.
and aircraft, nor the equipment for extricating the French
on learning of the heavy attacks London at 5.54 p.m., but all efforts Additionally there are ma- offensive warfare. Owing to British armies which had been towards Ypres and the im- to get in touch with our G.HQ. falled..
King Leopold had been asked by terial signs that the Colony is the influx of refugees, not more cut off by the German thrust minence of a break in the Bel- his Government and ours to leave in real danger of being deprived | than 14 days' food remained in was to establish a cover to the gian line, I went to our G.H.Q. his country but he told me that, as and to carry on the war of its war effort effectiveness the small part of Belgium left Belgian ports and Dunkirk by at Premesque to ask Lord Gort from through circumstances which to him. He did not feel that he strengthening contact with the if there was anything I could do Commander-in-Chief of his army,
which was fighting
desperate bai should be possible to correct, had any right to expect the Belgian Army and occupying to help. He asked me to urge.le, ha must share the fate of his
British Government to consider the Lys-Gravelines line.
King Leopold to withdraw the troops, His mother, Queen Elizabeth, The fact that a number of jeopardising, perhaps, the very He pointed out that the well- Belgian Army towards the was with him throughout these last days and elected to share his copil- Hongkong's industries are being existence of the British Army prepared frontier line, to be Yaer. forced to close down because it in order to keep contact with held by the British troops on his
flank, was very strong, and was The question of the Belgian The King told me that he realized is impossible to obtain raw the Belgian Army. materials is an alarming pros-
He asked me to make it clear unlikely to be seriously attacked, Army retiring to the Yser, if it his position would be very dimeut, pect, for they are the type of that he did not wish to do any but that to be held by the Bel- was forced to fall back from but he would use every oncavour to thing to interfere with any ac- gian troops was weak and would the Lys, had been considered at prevent his countrymen from being industries which could and tion which the British Govern- be comparative lightly held and the conference at Ypres on May compelled to.
with any action against the countries should be converted into manu- ment might consider it desira- thus invited attack. He feared 21. At that time King Leopold which had attempted to help Belgium facturing centres for much blefor the British Army to un- that if it were seriously as thought this might be the only in her plight As is now well known, needed war goods, Shipping is dertake towards the southward. saulted with strong air support alternative, line, but the German King Leopold made no separate peace
Germans would break thrust, the whole brunt ofwhich and is a prisoner of war, t scarce, but it is difficult to be. He asked me to say, however, the lieve that space could not be that he fully realised that such through, sever the connection had fallen on the Belgians, hd, Misfortuna has thus overwhelmed action would finally lead to the between the two armies and he feared, made a withdrawal to his country for a second time in his found for materials which are separation of the two armies overwhelm the Belgian Army. the Yeer impracticable Hole, but the Belgians may well be proved himself to be a gallant soldier, to be converted into war neces and, in this event, the capitula The King naked me to tell my told me later that day that he broud of the King, for he has eitles. An official review of the tion of the Belgian Army would Government that he felt, that had discussed the matter with a loyal ally and true ion of his
be inevitable sublect would be swelcome
the difficulty of keeping touch his General Staff who con- plenak) parents (M.
further to reinforce that flank, that
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