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King Leopold and his Government had been aware that the German Army was again on the march as early as 9 p.m. the night prior. It was moving up from Dusseldorf and Cologne and Aachen to cross the Dutch appendix province of Limburg and strike at the Liege forts (see map, p. 23); from Trier to strike through Luxembourg at Arlon and Neuf-chateau. At 5:20 a.m. the bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy...
Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...
...detachment of neutral news correspondents, including five Americans, toured Germany last week from Aachen to Kaiserslautern, guided by German officers who happily, confidently showed them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible...
...dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen and Buülow, respectively, who jumped off from between Aachen and Trier. Hausen's objective before swinging south was near Namur on the Meuse in Belgium. Billow's course pointed for Maubeuge on the French frontier after cracking through the forts at Liége in conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen...
...deep, built as a military obstacle with machine-gun and rapid-fire artillery emplacements along it. long the bank nearest Germany, all trees and underbrush have been removed to give a clear field for defensive fire. The confident Allied view is that if Germany should strike again from Aachen, the Belgians could hold her until French and British forces could come up at least to the canal and the secondary defense behind the Liége forts. In command of Belgian defense is General E. M. Van den Bergen, who has been busy on plans and works since the Belgian...