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This is the official Dutch account of the military and naval operations in the Netherlands from 10th-14th May, 1940. board on facta and data curried out after the official reports authorisation from the

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14 ANI which the Netherlands will only become pointed to the laying avotiable after the war

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and gives access to the heart of the country..

(2) A direct attack on the centre of the country, e. on the Grebbe line, and after this line had been taken on the new Dutch water line.

(3) An advance through Limburg

and North Brabant in direction of the Moerdijk bridges, Zeeland and Belgium. The army which in the last days before the Invasion had taken up

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concentrated positions adjusted to an attack from the east, had as its main source of reserves the First Army Corps, which was mainly stationed in the

province of South Holland. This army corps, which maintained a de- fensive position along the Dutch coast, also had the task of

of manning the fortineations of the new Dutch waterline in case the main army should have to abandon the Grebbe line and fall back on the fortress

to re-enter the battle after tion there.

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plon campaign has been completely upset by the violent struggle which the First Army Corps had to wage in the heart of the country, especially round Rotterdnin and The Hague, against the German airborne troops

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Until the evening of the 9th post of May the political situation of and obviously German the Netherlands was perfectly antivity above

Duter wiriony precautions had been taken so as to dromes Olber ueroplanes swept the and against the Fifth Column, which previously more then normal,

It was hoped that this meani no ensure that

with machine-gun no military aeroplanes housetops

fire, was particularly menacing in those though

a gross violation of the were left in the hangars. The pumes regardless of the absence of any milli- two cities. Apart from the

the reserveK disquieting information eutrality of the an above Dutch were lined up alongside the here- tory objectiven. The indiscriminate already mentioned, there were in the had been received, as a result territory, but a quartes of an hour drumes, along highways in the neigh- character of these attacks as the interior troops in the course of train- of which various types of later it was reported that the milk- bourhood and on muxiliary pero- civilian population is proved by the Ing. u small detachment of naval leave, normally enjoyed by the tary aerodromes of Schiphot, Waal dromes, the location of which had fact that in these first hours of the personnel in Amsterdam, the depot mobiilsed forces, had been can- being

haven. Bergen and De Kooy were been kept a close secret. As a result, Invasion several dead and wounded of the marines in Rotterdam, and the

bombarded. fimmediately the bumbing attacks on the hangars fell in the garden suburb "Marlot." pupils at several training Institutes. celled.

afterwards it was stated that German nehieved comparatively little.

another The political relations

had crossed the Dutch frouller troops 20

However, the subsequent muchlue method of attack was attempted and The Action In Zaid Holland neighbouring states of the Nether. nt several points

gunning of the peroplanes left out in pariphlets with Вп orange border The purpose of the Gerpon action landa and Belgium were, however,

unprovoked attuck uf the the open rendered many of them were dropped over the city, stating in the heart of the count soon be-

At the same thine, in extremely ungrammatical Dutch came clear. Apart from the necessary to of the Netherland: had begun with

the military take any special military measures out Germany attempting to produce neor the aerodromes suffered heavily, by strong German forces and that of the seat of Government in The

They furthermore had to contend every resistance The opinion of Belgium was that even one single justification.

Hoque and the High Command, the warnings (0 The Hague turid This especially odious characteristic with the numerous parachutists who these pamphlets made no impression German Command wished with one Brussels

regardin

forthcoming

of the attack was shown in a glaring had come down in the neighbourhood whatsoever a second bombing attack stroke to gain control of the only serious events were

to light when 3 hours after the outbreak of several aerodromes. were too vague

Thus three na undertaken at 10 m. High continuous communication between justify such measures. It la of in- of hostilities the German minister of the aerodromes. situated round explosive bombs were dropped, this Zuid Holland and Noord Brabant.

Ministry

of Foreign The Hague. viz. "Valkenburg," ume also on the centre of the city. Belgium and France, terest in this connection that shortly visited the before the invasion the German mili. Affairs to communicate on behalf of "Ypenburg" and "Ockenburg" feil No military objectives were hil, but

ent that Berlin his tary and air attache's in The Hague learned of aggressive plans of the immediately removed the obstacles the

government

To achieve this bud into the hands of the enemy who the maternity ward "Bethlehen" and

Germans the repeatedly announced ปา

House of Detention suffered carried out attacks on the following Ber Allies against Germany, worked out placed on them, thus enabling the heavy could not understand why the

danske.

points:- Netherlands had taken special mili- with the knowledge of the Nether- German transport planes to fand

First. Before going deeper into the opera-

the bridges pcross the The German their troops. In consequence, the uons of the airborne troops it must Moerdijk (one a railway bridge, the tary precautions which, apart from funds and Belgium. cancelling all leave, included the Government, therefore, found itself seat of the Court and the Guverne be pointed out that the first task of other a bridge for road traffic), which completion of barricades on

to occupy the Netherlands men were encircled by considerable the Dutch High Command WON to constitute the only connection be- trontiers, the preparation of the fuses and

where the establish exactly

enemy tween Zuid Holland and Noord resistance, but to the explosive charges on bridges

accept the protection morning, thus seriously threatening

his concentrate

This attack was carried of the German of strategic importance, the place reply could be given to this com Hague and other parts of the country, the

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The Would

Would he try to invade and occupy out by paratroops, and in the course of obstacles on aerodromes, Autow

Cr did of these operations the Dutch forces strada's, etc.

pletely false representation of

the whole of the country? the Shortly after

afterwards an unsuccessful he intend only to force

passage were stabbed in the back by Germon tendered, facts When on the night of May the nth after the Dutch forces had begun to population of The Hague. Some of The Incoming reports soon made it which presumably had been brough

Incidentally. 3 hours attempt was made to intimidate the

southern provinces? detachments of through the

Dutch uniforms the warning was received that the resist the overwhelmingly powerful the many enemy planes dying wear that the Germans were invad- to the scene of action in barges and German attack on the Western front, invnder with all possible ineans: over The Hugue dropped 4 incen- Netherlands and Belgium,

had crossed the frontier from the invasion, take place at dawn, the Government

bomba in the neighbourhood of the down to Maastricht in the south, authorised the Commander in Chief

headquarters of the naval staff. A of the land and naval forcRA

This meant that the Dutch army bombing attack was also made on 11 destroy immediately those roads and As has already been indicated, the group of barracks with the obvious had to oppose: lesser bridges in the frontier region atturk began at 3 am. on the 10th of aim of decimating the Dutch troops which might not be lestroyed In May with the bombardment and which could have been brought into time in the case of a sudden attack. machine-gunning of

German forces number of action against the These demolitions were immediately military

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AIR

The one-year tally sheet of air war, uc- cording to of ficial British figures, gives the R.A.F. a wide margin in results over the Luftwaffe and its Italian consort, and

edge in equipment and training which goes far to compensate a big deficit in numbers,

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nerodromes

ONE YEAR

awake to, the dangers of this sort of attack. They Have been used so far only against weak notions which had walled too long to re- arm, and which were taken com- pletely by surprise.

The test will furnish the answer to these questions, but the RA.F. thinks it knows it now. Attacko But as the war enters "Year

on convoys, unless given strong Two," in which Britain must beat

Bghter protection against the mur- off all attacks and bulld for the

derous eight-gun barrage of Hur- counter-offensive which everyone ricanes and Splifire, is suicidal- believes will come, there are still

and no fighter operating from the no conclusive answers to questions. Europe

European mainland can reach the which might decide the entire con- Aict

Can Germany effectively bloc- kade the British Isles, using her alt arm to supplement her sub- marines? Aside from spasmodic

present

... lanes.

North Atlantic Convoy

Plane production, after a slow Lart and frequently spasmodic de-. velopment, is running in high gear. Shipments from America are in- creasing each month. Britain is a

dive-bombing attacks on com and compact unit where the RAF

in most cases inconclusive carried through only with costly casualties, there has not yet been any mass, offensive against Bri- tain's food and supply ships,

Can masa bombing, carried out from nearby boxes, and by con- stant Waves of bombers, smash the R.A.F. and its factories on the ground,

and create the have in- land into which France and the

· Low-Countries were thrown three or four months ago? Air raids an England have been inte

intensified June 18.

Can German parachutists and

since

nir-barns Infantry, be used effec»« ively edagainst i, a nation fully

can fight In its own air and con- centrate Its forces or spread them out at a moment's notice. The anti-aircraft and balloon barrage defences,

Keeble comparatively

twelve months ago, have been constantly tightened. It's hard to And a field in England now, where a plane could get an uninterrupted run for a surprise landing, or a section where armed men don't watch for parachutists in 24-hour relays.

Finally the R.A.F. did manage to dominate Dunkirk

(1) An advance through the p

vinces of Groningen and Fries land and thence over the Zuiderzee dyke which connects

OF WAR

and the channel during large parts of the desperate Dun- kirk evacuation. It can put up a strong show here against all comers. And the figures for the past year are tribute to its effectiveness, numerical inferiority or no.

According to official British sto- tistles, enemy, plane fosses con-

firmed amount to 3,009 as of August 5, exclusive of the Polish campaign and of rany probable

planes shot down. There only

one reservation, losses for the western front from September 3 to the capitulation of France are given as 2,380, which includes several hundred reported by the French which to R.A.F. cannot check.

Air casualties are the hardest figures to check in any war. Dur- ing the height of the offensive in the wart, the Germans had many times more planes. In the air each day than the allies. But the above Agures, according to British sources are a striking tribute to superiority in material and trata- ing which was all the RAF had at the start of the war to com- for a crushing German verweight in numbers and a still-limping production pro- Bellain had the Spitfire and the turricane almost equal in speed

gramme.

con-

respectively to the Me 110 and Me

terrine 109, and firing a centrated burst of 100 shots n second from right machine guns spaced along the leading edge of the wing, designed to chew any aerial target to pieces. Both had a big edge in manoeuvrability over German Nighters.

Edward

Beattie

United Press Staff

Correspondent

to-day sums up the first year of

war in the air.

Britain also had the power- operated, four-gun turret, for its hombers, a'savage, defensive wea- pon developed by a firm whose original experience in such mat

the ters had been gained from design of revolving summer houses. for formal English gardens. A squadron of 12 Deflant fighters, equipped with these furrets, de- stroyed 87 Piesserschmitte on its arst fight because the Germans

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of this unprecedented ruse the Germans succeeded in gaining control

over the bridges. It should be noted here that the Dutch had not destroyed the bridges in order to keep the way clear for Belgian and French reinforcements.

(To be continued to-morrow)

mistook them for forward-fring Spitres. That was May 29, when the R.A.F. accounted for 77 Ger- mans. June 1 got 78, its best day.

Heavy equipment included the excellent Blenheim and Wellington bombers, huge Sunderland flying boats for long sen patrols, and the fleet of Lockheed "Hudsons," the all-purpose surprise of the war, used as convoyer, recon- naissance plane, light bomber and ever long-range fighter.

The collapse of France turned the whole course of air war toward' England, with constant R.A.F. raids of retaliation over. Germany and the Low Countries. The Bri- fish raids were aimed primarily at air fields, war industries, gasoline plants and depots, communications, and concentrations of barges which might be used to attack England. The Germans strucie at industry but above all at constal shipping. The balance, according to neutral as well as British abservers, rested with the more active RAF,

mon

the four werks ended During August 6, for example, the RAF. dropped 37,000 bombs over Ger- controlled territory, with great damage at points like Ilam- burg and districts like the Ruhr. During the same period, the Cler- 'mans dropped 6,987, over · Britain,

with some undeniable damage, but. no crippling effects.

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