Evening star., 1940-05-13
BeI9ions Continue
Stout Resistance
In Outer Forts
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, May 13.-German
troops have broken into strategic
Liege and the German flag has
waved over the citadel of the
famous fortress since this morn
ing, the high command an
nounced today.
Belgian troops are fighting
bitterly against the crushing
German advance, however, and
are Offering opposition in some
of the outer forts of Liege, it said.
In Holland, the Germans reported
two principal gains.
The high command said one COL
umn had established contact with
troops landed by air around Rot
terdam."
DNB, the official German news
agency, reported the complete oc-
cupation of the northern province
of Groningen, with the Nazis reach
ing the Zuider Zee ujssel Meer) in
force behind vanguards which
reached it at Harlingen yesterday
Drive Against French.
Even as the Nazis pressed their
onslaught in the Lowlands toward
what Germans expected to be one
of the great battles of history, other
Nazi forces in the west took the
offensive on the French frontier.
South and southeastward from
Zweibruecken our positions were
moved forward and several hundred
prisoners were taken," the high
command reported from the West
wall-Maginot Line front.
The high command said French
troops in the Lowlands were NOV
ing up and had been thrown into
the area south of Liege and west
OF the Ourthe River, toward which
1t said German troops are moving.
1s,eoo Dutch Reported Taken.
DNB, onicial German news agency,
reported that one of the German
armies sweeping into the Lowlands
had captured about $4,000 Dutch
soldiers, while at one point in
South Holland a Dutch general and
his stan were seized.
DNB said 900 French soldiers were
captured In an action south of Saar-
brucken on the Maeinot-Westwall
front. In which German lines pushed
forward.
The agency also reported the
capture of 800 prisoners, mostly
British, by German forces in Nor
way in 4 fight at Mo, north of
Mosjoen on the west coast between
Narvik and Trondheim.
DNB also reported that $4,000
general staff maps of Germany were
found in headquarters of the
Netherlands Army in Arnhem.
1t said that among them were
scale maps of the Ruhr district,
which the agency cited as further
proof England and Holland planned
an attack on the German industrial
region.
Text Of C0mmunioue.
German troops also are driving
west from Liege, north of .the Meuse
River.
The communique, issued from
Chancellor Hitler's headquarters
with his army, said:
"The attack of German forces in
the west made good progress on
May IL.
I'm Holland, German troops are
moving forward west of the South
Willem Canal. They have established
contact with troops landed by air
around Rotterdam.
I'm Belgium the crossing of the
Albert Canal was forced northwest
OF Hasselt. Our troops are moving
forward west of Liege and north of
the Meuse and have broken into the
city Of Liege.
THE German flag has waved on
the Citadel since the forenoon of
May Is, while individual outer forts
still resist.
French troops have been thrown
west Of the Ourthe and in Southern
Belgium. Our troops are there in a
fluid advance and are beginning to
approach the goal set up.
South and southeastward from
Zweibrucken Con the West-wall-
Maginot 'front.' our positions were
moved forward and several prisoners
were taken. The advance of our
army was supported effectively by
the air force with attacks on troop
concentrations. march columns and
railroads.
Air Battle Continues.
"The air force continues its great
battle for air superiority over the