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KING LEOPOLD'S LOYAL CO-OPERATION WITH

THE ALLIES

History of Events Which Forced Him at Last to Forewarn Them of Surrender. with the British Army if it sidored that a withdrawal to the operated to the southward was Yser was a physical impossibl not

fully appreciated. He lity under the pressure the would like above all other things enemy word exorting, A to co-operato-with-us; but it was withdrawal over ronds thronged a physical impossibility under with refugoes, without ade- the existing geographical con- quate fighter cover, would be ditions. His Government had costly and would only end in been urging him to leave. Bolgi- disaster; moreover, it would um before the Belgian Army mean the abandonment of all

and .. found it necessary to capitulato. thoir ammunition, stores Of course, he had no intention food.

of deserting his army. If tho British Government understood declared that a British counter. On the other hand, his G.H.Q. his motives, he did not care attack on the vulnerable flank what others might think. I.

sent a telegram in this sense nt of the enemy must be under

taken if a disaster was to ba averted, and that the opportuni-

once.

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

into account by the French

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Although King Leopold did

High Command, and before the not know at that time, and no to this effect over attack could be mounted the message communications of the British reached him, Lord Gort had al- Army with its bases at the ready received orders to with- draw to the coast and was pre- Channel ports had been cut.

Meanwhile paring to do 80, On the night of May 23, with

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 HE flood of poisonous I sent a telegram to this strong position on the Scheldt Army, short of food and am- Tc which

was effect to the Prime Minister and to a very much weaker one be munition, had withstood a tre-

Leopold of the Belgians

Hongkong Telegraph directed at King Leopold after Lord Gort, and I gave a copy hind the Lys. At the same mendous onslaught from eight

*Friday, Sept. 19, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 26015

On May 21 I was with to cover their own failures and Leopold at Ypres when he

Gen. Woygand, the shortcomings.

Generalissimo

an

ne w

with

the capitulation of the Belgian to Lord Gort personally the time he sent the 68th French. German divisions, including Army in May, 1940, wus, of next day..

Division-one of

the two several armoured units, sup- course, inspired by certain

French divisions which were in ported by wave after wave of Frenchmen seeking a scapegoat

King reservo on the Belgian loft

met flank and under his orders-- great gallantry, the Belgians

dive-bombers. Fighting the Yser in Belgian had delivered several counter- THE greix "Special to the Telegraph”

of the Allied across As I was with King Leopold

'buses and lorries to Gravelines. attacks, slain some thousands of 1 used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to

at the headquarters of his army armies. indicate tows which is strictly copyrigůt

The only Allied troops left in Germans and taken several hun- under the provisions of the Telecommun- throughout the brief campaign Gen. Weygand is old Belgium were the 60th French dred prisoners, but they were cations Ordinance, 1936. Such mEWI AL bears the Indicalion “Up is received in in Belgium, and at the same friend of mine and was a loyal Division,

nearing the end of their resis Hongkong on the date of publication by

time in close touch with the colleague on an International On May 24 Gen, Weygand tance. the United Press Associations, who r serve all rights and forbid zapublications, headquarters of the British Committee on the Dardanelles, told the commanders of the either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Army and Government, I had over which I presided at Lau- British Army

On the evening of May 26 a and 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.

COLONY'S ECONOMIC

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- paganda value which could be made public. Cables are con- stantly being received in Hong- kong and published in the news- papers of the different forms the war effort is taking in coun- tries like India, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Africa. Why then should Hongkong so shyly hide its light under the

bushel?

The King's bearing was al- der the heavy blows he and his ways calm and courageous un-

people suffered through tho treachery of Germany, and the failure of the French to prevent the German armoured columns from forcing the Meuse at Sedan, and thus from threaten- in the right flank of the called French-British-Belgian Army to the northward.

By Admiral of the Fleet SIR ROGER KEYES, M.P.

At Adml. 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 Laeken," Cresset Press, 10s. 6d.) by Emile Cammaerts on the King of the Belgians.

the remaining French 60th Digle 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 toll 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.

command too late to save the and he ordered them to attack He would be obliged to sur- Northern Army, and unless he vigorously to the southwards, render before a debacle. He

the could galvanise French in order to close the gap behind fully appreciated that the troop in our sector into action the German Panzer divisions British Army had done every the outlook was pretty grim.

thing in its power to help Bel- which had broken through. King Leopold had placed him-

Gen. Weygand confirmed the

gium, and he asked Lord Gort self and his Army under the orders which had been given to By this time the Belgian to believe that he had done French High Command. In ac- the French and British armiles it was evident to the Belgian this catastrophe. I sent this Army was heavily engaged, and everything in his power to avert cordance with the orders he re- on May 20 and requested King G.H.Q. that they were faced message by wireless to Lord ceived, and conforming with the Leopold to withdraw from the with an attack by eight or nine Gort, as all telephone commun! movements of the French Scheldt to the Lys, in order to Northern Army and the British allow the British Army to retire German divisions with the ob- cations had been cut, but I un- Army, the Belgian Army had to behind the strong defensive

ject of driving the Belgian Army dorstand he did not receive it, 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 its contact with the British

At that time King Leopold was hoped that a final stand throughout

Army, which was now lying be- the winter-pre- G.H.Q. was established at St southward would be made. The Belgian paratory to

attacking to the hind its winter line on the hoped to be able to hold out for another day, but by the after- frontier. Andre, outside Bruges.

with the French

noon the German army had Army,

On May 25 King Leopold re driven a wedge between the Bel- ceived information which left gian and British armies and. him in no doubt that the British pierced the line in two or three

On May 20 the French High Command ordered the British.

Without giving away

in formation vital to the enemy, the Economic War Effort Com- mittee could release statements about the progress of the work which would serve to stimulate and French Armies to prepare On our return to Bruges 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, village would, almost certainly, quicken to regain contact with the main had agreed to take over the line wards. In view of this he felt and town in the small part of that he could best help by keep- Belgium left in Belgian hands their desire, to make greater I was at the British G.H.Q. at in order to release British divi- with its left flank. He had al- thousands of refugees, and they

French Army to the southward. of the Lya as far as the frontier

ing touch as long as possible was thronged with hundreds of personal contributions towards Wahagnies when these orders sions to carry out the offensive ready withdrawn his mechanised and the troops wore being mer the war effort. This is some- were received and it was gener- contemplated by Gen. Weygand, cavalry division from the left cilessly bombed by low-flying thing about which the publically recognised that the aban- although this necessitated his flank on the coast to reinforce aircraft. should be taken into confidence, donment of the Belgian Army placing practically the whole of the right flank, and he now gave Knowing that he could do nothing was inevitable unless it could the Belglan Army along a front orders for the 16th Division further to help hig Allies, King Leo- discreetly, of course, but with a

conform with this movement, of 90 kilometres, opposite which (infantry with no artillery nor paid told me and the British and view to securing an active res- The King of the Belgians a number of German divisions machine guns), from the Yser, French Missions at Belgian G.H.Q. ponse. Complete silence firstly thereupon asked me to inform had been identified. He felt, further to reinforce that flank, that he intended to ask for en irritates, then creates apathy, the British Government and howover, that the projected This exhausted all his reserves. arma ce ar manier of at midnight. In

In order to avold

forely- and neither tends to encourage Lord Gort that the Belgian French-British offensive had

tried people. The British Mission realisation of the Colony's war army existed solely for defence been delayed too long and, at

informed the War Office by wireless, effort potential.

and possessed neither tanks nor this late hour, the baly hope of On the morning of May 26, and the message was received in aircraft, nor the equipment for extricating the French and Additionally there are ma-offensive, warfare..

on learning of the heavy attacks London at 5.54 p.m., but all efforts Owing to British armies which had been towards Ypres and the im. to get in touch with our G.H.Q falled; 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

King

Leopold had been asked by in real danger of being deprived than 14 days' food remained in was to establish a cover to the gan line, I went to our G.H.Q, his country 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 without but he told me that, as 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 should be possible to correct: had any right to expect the Belgian Army and occupying to help. He asked me to urge which was fighting a desperate bat

British Government to consider the Lys-Gravelines line. The fact that a number of jeopardiaing, perhaps, the very He pointed out that the well- Belgian Army towards the was with him throughout these last King Leopold to withdraw the troops. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, Hongkong's industries, are being existence of the British Army prepared frontier line, to be Year.

* days and elected to share his capllez forced to close down because it in order to keep contact with held by the British troops on his

vity f is impossible to obtain raw the Belgian Army.

Bank, was very strong, on his the un

The question of the Belgian The King told me that he realised 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 difcuit,2 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 endeavour 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 hold and the conference at Ypres on May compelled to associate themselves should be converted into manu- ment might consider it desira- thus invited attack. He feared 21. At that time King Leopold with any action against the countries which had attempted to help Belgium facturing centres for much ble for the British Army to un- that if it were seriously as thought this might be the only in her plight Ay 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 scarce, but it is difficult to be. He asked me to say, however, the Germans would break thrust, the whole brunt of which and is a prisoner of war.

that he fully realised that such through, sever the connection had fallen on the Belgians, had, Miat lleve that space could not be action would finally lead to the between the two armies and he feared, mado a withdrawal to his country for a second lime lú his found for materials which are separation of the two armles overwhelm the Belgian Army the Yser impracticable. He life, but the Belgians may well be to be converted into war neces- and, in this event, the capitula-The King asked me to tell my told me later that day that he proud of their King, for he has proved himself to be a gallant soldier, sities. An official review of the tion of the Berrian Army would Government that he felt that had discussed the matter with Tom pill, and affrution of his bubject would be welco

be inevitable, some

{ficulty:, of ¿ keening, touch his. General, Staff, who, con- salaiki parenkamai (383A SA KAN

army,

"Misfortune has thus overwhelmed

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