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...appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...least 5,000 planes with crosses under their wingtips and swastikas on their tails led and supported Germany's supreme effort (see p. 27). Left behind, beleaguered by the rising German tide, pounded by its heaviest artillery and air bombs were Allied garrisons in forts at Liége, Namur, Sedan, Montmédy, who pounded back desperately at the lava flow of German supply and reinforcement. After the break-through at Sedan, Generalissimo Gamelin issued his last-ditch order...
...Crimson starting lineup was still indefinite when the team left yesterday, with Charley Lutz and Sam White the only sure starters in their regular jobs of forward and center. Either Bill Webber or Franny Simpson will ge the other forward post...
...terms of her neutrality, Belgium was not mobilized when Germany struck on August 4. Within twelve days all her Liége forts fell and Kluck rushed westward, intending to smash the Belgian Army at Jette. The Belgians retreated into fortified Antwerp, where he bottled them and passed...
...bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe of trenches and pillboxes. Behind the fort system runs a "Little Maginot Line" constructed with French engineering assistance...