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...race for new lines along the Maas and Moselle, three Allied Armies protected overhead by fighter craft and on the ground by anti-aircraft guns spotted along the roads, started from bases along the Belgian border. The French IX Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium...
...heavy blow, whether brought about by a "secret weapon" (see p. 28) or sheer power. Three bridges across the Albert Canal went with it, one when an officer about to order the bridge's destruction was killed by a bomb and his successor hesitated to act. Another Belgian officer darted back over another captured bridge and blew himself up with it. Through these holes the Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses. Beginning Sunday night, things began to look bad for the Allies, not only in Holland but all down through...
...Friday, May 10, in Brussels to deliver Germany's notice of "protection," Mr. Spaak cut him short before he could speak. "I have something to say to you before you begin," said Spaak. "The answer is negative." And he presented the German with a Belgian note of his own. The German insisted that he came only to offer Belgium the "protection" of long-suffering Fuhrer Hitler against "invasion" by France and Great Britain. Again M. Spaak interrupted, reading from his own note...
...German Army has just assaulted Belgium. This is the second time. . . . This time the crime is even more odious since no ultimatum, no protest was presented to the Belgian Government, which learned only by the assault itself that pacts between Germany and Belgium had been broken...
...strongholds in The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam. They carted away and interned 21 Nazis, Communists, etc., including National Socialist Party Editor M. M. Rost van Tonninggen, member of The Netherlands Second Chamber. That something was afoot in the Low Countries was indicated by the fact that within 24 hours the Belgian Government put visa requirements in effect on her Netherlands and Luxembourg frontiers, arrested two Flemish Nationalists...