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various harbours, the trama: greatly obstructed by, this partial's barrier, the more so as the Nether- "lands possessed" nominaweepers. equipped to deal with magnetic mines British and French mine- sweepers were, however; immediately

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This condition was not fulfill sequently destroyed, crossed the near Gennep, on which a German put at our disposal and arrived at. ed as the First Army Corps, Meuse at Gennep. This bridge was armoured train met tis fate. The Flushing in the evening of May the supposed to hold the waterline, the only one which had not been three bridges across the Meuse, one a toth. Two British minesweepers blown up entirely, Near Mill the railway bridge and two for road were sent to the Nieuwe Waterweg had been completed absorbed in train was forced to a standstill and trame, at Maastricht were also des- to clear the way for a number of the bitter struggle round The finally destroyed by the men of the troyed in time. It is necessary to nearly completed; warships and" for Hague, Rotterdam and Dor- 2nd Regiment Field Artülerz, assist- stress tile point since it has been a the merchantmen lying in Rotterdam. drecht. Thus maximum power Another armoured train crossing the been repeatedly stated, in the press of German aeroplanes dropped new ed by a detachment of motorcyclists, subject of much confusion. It has Every morning at dawn, however, of resistanco could not be bridge near Venlo just when it was some countries. that if WOR the developed by tho retreating blown up, went up with it. fallure to demolish one or more magnetic mines in the Waterweg, the harbour of Ymulden! ' and· the bridges near Maastricht which made Noordzee-canal,

entrancei #forces and an the 14th of May the

Germans succeeded in breaking Meanwhile a serious situation possible the rapid German advance Flushing and also on the ferry-routo through the last line of defence of had been created by the success- through Belgium. It should be between Willemstads and Numans

un- dorp. As a result, two ships leaving the castern front of the fortress Hol- ful push of a German armoured desturbered, however, that the land. Accordingly ariy further

though truly Rotterdag carrying refugees, were viz pilot-boat and a resistance had practically become division through Bois le Due and attualed near Maastricht, lies on British militarily Impossible. In order to Langstrant towards the Meer Belgium territory, across the Albert blown up, obstructing this channel understand how inevitable this capi- dijk bridges, which had already through Dutch territory. The fallure Renselaar struck a magnetic mine

further, In Ymulden tulation was, it must be remembered fallen into German hands at an to demolish this bridge inoy therefore outside the locks, while the old not be attributed to the Dutch forces. minesweeper Mill was blown up on stronghold of the country had been earlier stage. breached after the occupation of the With the French motorised units The misunderstanding about these the other side. Unfortunately we It was not the unable to forestall the German ar- bridges has been further strengthened had not sufficient means to clear the Moerdijk bridge. threat of the German High Command moured column, the arrival of the by references to "Meuse-bridges". It entrances to our harbours and con-

tanks at Moerdijk made is possible, of course, that some of sequently the warships awalling com to bomb Rotterdam and other cities German which forced the Dutch to capitulate, the issue of the fight for Rotterdam the bridges aerosa the Meuse in pletion In Rotterdam, unable to but the millary defeat suffered by the heroically fighting soldiers.

that in the south also the central

The Operations South Of The Big Rivers

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foregone conclusion. Belgium were not demolished, but proceed under their own power, and The Dutch forces in North Brabant, all the bridges on the Dutch part of all the ships of the Royal Navy under which had been able to effect timely the Meuse certainly were. There is, construction had to destroyed withdrawal, naturally found them- incidentally, ample confirmation of when the decision to surrender the selves in a much better position on this in the published photographs of fortress of Holland war, taken. Two May the 14th than those in the the Maastricht bridges taken by the new submarines, however, sufficiently

Continuing the official Netherlands account of the invasion of Holland by Germany's Panzerdivisionen

completed to sall, managed to silp through the extensively mined Nieuwe Waterweg on the evening of the the 13th and made their way to open sea.

overwhelming superiority in num- bern. The German airforce, having complete mastery in the air on every

action, fleld of

most effectively covered the advance of the German

After H.M. van Galen had destroyed armoured and motorised columns.

the German transport planes, attempt- Wherever this support in the air was

ing to land on the beach south of Katwijk during low tide, Dutch lacking, however, and the German Infantry had to fight without the pro-

torpedo boats and British destroyers tection

of armouredra and aero-

Intensively patrolled the Dutch const. These

effectively patrols effect planes, our forces inf God CIMENTOWA

destroyed a The bridges were destroyed few more transport and hydroplanes, losses. During the crossing of the fortress of Holland, which were un- RA F.

and Meuse-Waal canal

no in the nominal course the river able to break out. There WIS

of military which were attempting to land on Meuse, for instance, the Germans reason why the former troops should demolitions, and not, as has some- the beach and the

teer were tantamalla sitars been stated, by subsequent more German reinforceme and no lost heavily before the defending empitulate, Dutch machine-gunnera were being reinforced by French troops via bombardment from the air. silenced.

Breskens-Flushing and Filt

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brought up in this manner. Breda

When the military situation made The Fight On Sea

further resistance on land useless, the In the south also the enemy was The Netherlands, outraged by

We have referred siready to the naval forces in the north and the too powerful. The defensive posi- treacherous methods of the enemy.

support which Dutch and Allied centre were ordered to leave the tion of the "Peel-Ranm stelling," not remained firmly resolved not to continued beyond the Dutch fronter up the Aght until final victory was Naval units gave to the Dutch land Dutch coaste as soon as possible for as the Belgians had ret

It main be stressed that it wna forers from May the 10th uli May England, to continue the fight, from

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retired behind won.

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population

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the Albert Canal, had to be abandon- not the Netherloads, who capitulated the 14th. Mention must be made of there. In this couras I.M.'s ships ed on the first day to avoid encircle- on the 14th of May, but the fortress the netion of ILM's gunboat FRYER were repeatedly attacked by dive- The defending farces were Holland; conquered through force of in assisting the flanks of the troops bombers and H.M. gunboat Johun ordered to retreat to the Zuid- art. The military position of Den fighting near Arnhem, Rhenen and Maurits van Nassau was lost, Willemsvaart, but as enemy pressat

ssure Hekler had also become untenable, Vreeswijk. At Vreeswijk the ship they retreated further west continued

was useless to rubject the was sunk, but after running ashore The Departure Of Her Majesty

to further it continued Aring Will the local action to make contact with the French vil

The Queen And The troops which had arrived in the slaughter after the objects of military bad ended.

Government meantime. These combined forces,

res, value had been destroyed. The navy In the early morning of the 10th, however, could not resist the enemy. continued the struggle at the side of when the invasion started, the Ger- The purpose of the attack on The and on the 14th of May the front ran the English French, kept up a important harbours with magnetic obviously to capture the rulers of the In Zeeland, man forces immediately blocked all Hague already described -WOR from Bergon-op-Zeom via Roozen-

zen- assisted by the doal to Turnhout, then in na rastin flerce resistance for several days. mines. A number of magnette mines Kingdom of the Netherlands and in direction towards Mechelen And Here another unportant point must were dropped from the air in the this way to render constitutional Louvain. We want to mention here be clarified. All the bridges except- river armis giving access to Flushing, government Impossible, not only in the destruction of an armoured train, lag one neress the big rivers, which in the Nieuwe Waterweg, in the the Motherland, but bo in the near the village of Mill. This train, snight have facilitated German harbour of Ymulden and in the Dutch East and West Indies.

time, anchorage at Den Helder. Though the very beginning the German forets which entered Holland and were sub The exception was the railway bridge these did not completely block the openly set out to hunt the Queen.

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German aeroplanes mbchum-gunned Her Majesty's residence Huis en Bosch" just outside The Hague, where sho was staying at the time of the

while number of para- descended around the palace, Queen was therefore advised, on the first day of the invasion to proceed to her palace on the Noor- deinde in the centre of The Hague. This was all the more desirable since at that time the attack of the German airborne forces

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not yet been.. But even in the palace on the Noor- repulsed. deinde Her Majesty was only, rela- tively safe. Both before and after her arrival at the palace low-flying of the German airforce

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the palace, without however in diverting Her from her tasks. When in the early morning of the 13th of May the military situation had grown Krave that the fall of the fortress of Holland had to be seriously reckoned with, it became imperative to prevent the Queen and the Government of the Netherland far-flung Empire from falling into the hands of the enemy, Thanks to the full co-operation again given by the British

Navy,

Her Majesty was able to leave In the morning of the 13th of In the evening she was followed the members of the Government who left the fortress Holland in another British warship. At 10 am to the morning of the next day, the Com mander-in-Chief issued an order of the day to his forces and to the civilian population in which he told them of the departure of the Queen and the Government and explained that this departure had become necessary on account of the critical milltary situation of the fortress of Holland. At the same time General Winkelman stated at, the dovern ment had delegated all its powers in the Netherlands to him and had in structed him to continue fighting till. the moment when further fighting should become useless. In the se cordance with these instructions the Commander-in-Chief finally entered negotiations with the enemy when in the May the mening of the 14th of military situation-of the fortress Holland-bud become such that continued resistance would in- deed be useless; *****

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He Majesty the Queen and Government had meanwhile ariived in England. This" meant. that the Kingdom of the Netherlands) under the leadership of the head of state and the constitutional government re- mained at war with Germany. The ›cessation of hostilities in the Nether lands had only a milltary and a local significance.

The Netherlands continue the wary at the side of their Allies with those means which they still have at their disposal. Among these there is dist of all the Navy; which had area": resumed active service, next, to that the immense etonomic resources of the overseas territories and the rele Lively Jarre merchant marine, To- Father than factors formi no mean

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