The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
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War in the Lowlands
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police and troops These snipers were reported killed
later but German airpanes continued drop supplies
to the Delft university forces.
Amsterdam (pop.: 1sSO00), Brussels and many
other cities in the low countries reported German
bombardments. directed chiefly at military points,
but chiefly causing civilian deaths
In Berlin the Nazs said Is persons including Is
children. had been killed by Allied bombardment Of
Freiburg and threatened confederation against the
English
London reported the British air forces continued their
attacks German bases and that small wsrshp had been
heavily bombed in the Norwegian port of Bergen
The German official agency reported that German
fighting planes were retaining command of the skies over
mens to the isolated adromes and communications centers
seized by small German shock units.
The main aerial attack conferred around the Dutch capital
at The Hague and the important of Rotterdam but the
city of Amsterdam population 750000 reported five bombs
did damage and killed in its central section
this morning.
The German high command claimed its troops
we're smashing rapidly ahead land after breaking
up the frontier defenses in both Belgium and Holland
and there reports in London the Nazis had
reached the Belgian town of Lege For the most
part however. the arrival Of British and French ad
vance troops at the front lines in the low countries
appeared to have found the Germans meeting stiff
resistance about Is to 20 miles inside Dutch and
Belgian territory long and irregular front
Allied arplanes fighting back strongly both
Belgium and Holland, and bombed German bases in the
knneland according to the London ar ministry London
newspaper reports said British warships operating
off the coast of Holland.
Air casualties were mounting rapidly, with both sides
claiming to have shot down hundreds of planes
The German invasion Of the low countries, how
ever was far from blocked and statements by the
official news agency in Berln-partly substantiated
in Allied sources-indicated the situation was
tremey serious in the Rotterdam and possibly
at The Hague.
Scores of big German planes protected by fast
fighting ships, flew low the Rotterdam and
dropped hundreds of German soldiers, some of them
in the suburbs of the city itself.
Rotterdam airport reported recaptured by the Dutch
but the Germans denied this development and furthermore
said to be in possession of the Rotterdam marine
barracks.
1t indicated battle in progress there
and that the Nazis rushing and more to
the by plane.
Similar parachute troops were being landed around The
Hague, capital of Queen Wihemna who today urged the
king of Italy intervene with begeren to obtain respect
for civilians in time.
The Dutch and Belgians claimed they had wiped
out surrounded virtually all of the German para
chute forces but report from The Hague admitted
Dutch soldiers there had been fired on by persons
in Dutch uniform and civilian clothes who may have
been landed from planes.
The situation in Belgium about the same, with
huge German air forces in action throughout the
try but the results of parachute landings in dozen
places still uncear.
The chief hope of the low countries and the Allied forces
pouring their frontiers that sufficient air
strength could be mustered to disrupt the Nazi aerial
renforcemens and permit the hopping of the German
troops before they could achieve their objective of making
with the land forces advancing from the frontiers
of the Reich.