WAR BREVITIES
Brussels, to-day.
A bomb fell near the German Em- bassy in Brussels.
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Measures are being actively taken to organise assistance for the wound- ed.-Havas.
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Ottawa, To-day. An emergency meeting of the Cana- dian Cabinet is expected.-Reuter.
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Canberra, To-day, The Australian Cabinet is to meet on Monday to discuss the distribution of the Commonwealth's home defence forces. Reuter.
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Berlin, To-day. Hitler, who is officially on the Wes- tern Front to direct operations, has already started to distribute ironmon- gery. He presented Iron Crosses yes- terday to two officers. -Reuter.
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Ghent, To-day.
London, To-day,
The War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff of the three Services again an- sembled at 11.30. a.m.-Reuter.
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London, To-day. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Prof. Koht, the Norwegian Minister in London and the Norwegian military attaché visited the Foreign Office for an hour yesterday afternoon.-Reuter.
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The Hague, To-day. The Queen's satisfaction at the manner in which the troops are the Germans is expressed resisting in an Order of the Day issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.—Reuter.
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Brussels, To-day. There were three further air raids on Brussels yesterday afternoon and the anti-aircraft defences of the city were firing continuously.
Two air raid warnings were given,
A number enemy 'planes have flown over Ghent since 5.30 a.m. yesterday. A.A. guns opened vigorous fire.-Reu--Reuter. ter.
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Brussels, To-day. General mobilisation was ordered in Belgium at 4.30 a.m.-Reuter.
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Brussels, To-day. The Belgian Army is rounding up little units of parachutists. Numerous squadrons of aircraft attacked Bel- glum.
Several German 'planes have been brought down. The number of casual-` ties in the area is small.-Reuter.
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London, "To-day.
The armies of Belgium and Holland, it is understood, number approxim- ately 500,000 men each.
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London, To-day.
An Air Ministry casualty list records 33 killed in action or otherwise, 10 wounded, 12 died and 37 missing. Reuter.
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Antwerp, To-day.
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Washington, To-day,
Within 12 hours of the German in- vasion of the Low Countries it was As a result of aerial bombardment already apparent that the new ag- by the Nazis, the mental hospital atgression had made a profound impres- Mortsel has been set on fire. Reuter.sion in the United States.
The latest German stroke, apart London, To-day. from questions of general morality,
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It is learned that all horse racing in hits hard and in a personal sense. England is to be cancelled after to-many prominent Americans of Dutch
ancestry, day until further notice.-Reuter.
as for instance, President Roosevelt and Senator Vandenburg.
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London, To-day.
It is believed that almost all of the The Dutch have blown up the 'planes of the Belgian Air Line are bridges over the Maas.-Reuter.
Six got away from Brussels after the early raids and are now in England: Two more are expected.
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Paris, To-day. It is stated in authoritative quar- ters that assurances have
recently been received that Spain intends to remain neutral.-Reuter.
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Ne wYork, To-day.
An attempt by the German air force to capture Queen Wilhelmina early in the Moreover, the fact that none have morning was described by striven harder to maintain impartial the Columbia Broadcast Com- neutrality than Belgium and Holland, has brought home with the swiftness pany's American correspon- of an electric shock the ruthlessness dent. of Germany's war and political ma- chine.-Reuter.
London, To-day.
The Air Ministry announces that R.A.F. aircraft yesterday undertook operations against aerodromes occu- pied by the enemy in Holland.-Reu- ter.
London, To-day. An announcement by the Air Min- istry says that during Wednesday night an aircraft dropped several in- cendiary bombs in a country district | in Kent.
The correspondent stated at least 16 large Junkers aeroplanes landed at Valkenburg airport, near the Queen's summer villa at Ruygen hoek, each carrying at least 20 soldiers armed with rifles and machineguns.
Other would-be aerial kidnappers landed at Delft, The plan was to cut off The Hague for only a few hours from the remainder of the country and capture the Queen and Government.
Pitched Battle
Describing how he encountered a pitched battle on the outskirts of Val- kenburg, the correspondent says hun- dreds of Dutch soldiers were sent out in high-powered cars armed with automatic rifles and machineguns, while snipers, using tracer bullets, set fire to a number of German planes.
It is believed a number of the would-be kidnappers were killed.
The correspondent adds: "From what I saw, the Dutch mobile defence is of effectively handling this new type of
blitzkrieg."-Reuter.
It has now been established by ex- amination that these bombs were enemy origin.-Reuter.
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