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This is the last quarter-hour. Hold fast." Against 1,500,000 Germans who were engaged by week's end, Weygand had not more than 60 French divisions, plus perhaps two British, two or three Polish, perhaps one Belgian (last week being reorganized, re-uniformed)-about 1,000,000 men in all, to face an enemy whose reserves alone were that many. He dared not weaken further the garrisons of the Maginot Line or his ten divisions facing the new Italian enemy. The Germans, he prophesied, would extend their attack until it stretched all the way to Switzerland...
...simultaneously the greatest military defeat that any military forces ever suffered. A great many lives may have been saved by 'tie British naval forces, but the booty captured is so enormous that no estimate can yet be given. ..." The German High Command claimed 1,200,000 French, English, Belgian and Dutch casualties and prisoners. It claimed seizing or destroying weapons and materiel for 75 divisions. It claimed destruction of 3,500 enemy a; Dianes, sinking of 24 warships and 66 tiisports, damages to 59 warships, 117 transports...
...frankly pro-French newspaper is the Belgian daily, La Meuse, published for the last 85 years in Liége. It survived World War I, saw German troops fight their way across Belgium, limp back over the frontier in defeat four years later. But when Adolf Hitler's columns rolled toward Liége last month, La Meuse's editors knew they would soon be lodged in concentration camps, doubted whether their paper could survive World...
...into Paris. Two days later La Meuse was on the street with its first Paris edition, printed on the presses of Paris-soir. Its circulation last week was down to 73,000, from a peacetime average of 100,000 to 120,000. But with something like 2,000,000 Belgian refugees scattered over France, Editor Gilbart expects to print as many as 400,000 copies a day before war ends...
...Only Belgian paper published in France, La Meuse now fills its columns with names and addresses of refugees, directions for cashing checks, exchanging money, finding food, shelter, clothing. One Belgian of whom La Meuse could give no news last week was its owner: 37-year-old Chevalier Jean de Thier, a lieutenant in a Belgian motorized division, fate unknown...