The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28

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 BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Limited Press Foreign News Editor)
 King Leopold surrendered the Belgain army today and Adolf Hit- ler's inechanized legions moved down the channel coast in an as. sauit designed to deal c death blow to trapped Allied armies in Flan- ders.
 Great Britain and France are fighting on stubbornly and with good heart" according to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Paul Reynaud, and expert to triumph in the end.
 ljut, Churchill warned, the people must expect "hard and heavy tid- ings." These tidings, 1t was believed would concern the tragic plight of tho trapped British and French troops probably now 100000 of the finest Allied fighting men--battling Nazi attacks from three sides and from the air and faced with loss Of destruction of their last remaining communication lines through the channel por.s.
 Only an Allied counter.offonsive from the south-ard there is no definite sign of successful thrust from that direction n--appears likely to save the trapped armies, it was said by British militray sources which indicated that there was lit- tie hope Of retreat across tho chan- mel at present.
 Germans Are Squeezing
 Furthermore, while the Belgian collapse permitted the Germans to advance toward Bruges, ostend and Dunkirk, the German offensive from the south squeezed the trapped arn- les tighter by an advance through French Qualifications near Valon- ciennes and the capture of Douai and orchcies, according to. the Na- zis.
 "It Is only q matter of days or even hours" it was aSJerted In Berlin. 1t would not be surprising If the terribleb blow were to cause the Allied armies to throw up their arms rather than be de- stroyed."
 After that, the Nagis indicated, would come the clinnactic blow aganBit England.
 That the British expected such an attack, was more evident every hour and the admiralty took over man. agement and control of all coast guard stations throughout Great Britain as part of the preparations to fight of invading army.
 Bitter At surrender
 There was much bitterness over Leopoldg surrender, especially in Paris, but Churchill warned that he should not be judged hastily. It was reported in London that the Bel- gian monarch said his troops (about 100000 to 600,000) had eaten only biscuits for four days and had in some cases fired their last ammuli- ton.
 Some Belgian refugee government leaders charged Leopold with being 6 traitor and said that his order would be defied.
 But nothing that had gone before struck with such stunning if not disastrous force at the Allied fight- ing front as the sudden action Of the king whose father-Albert of the Belgians---had lowered as an heroic figure above the ruins of his country in the World War.
 In a broadcast to the French peo- ple, Premier Paul Reynaud, bitterly and contemptuously denounced the surrender and promised eventual victory despite the fact that the darkest days had come as Q result of the Belgian exploitation which collapsed the vital left flank of the Allied front.in the east and threw open to the German armies the path to the remaining channel ports.
 Tn London, Prime Minister Wins- ton Churchill went before the House of Commons for a statement on the Belgian colIapse-bringing close the Nazl promise to invade England and Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper told the people by radio that the situation of the British ex- peditionary force in Flanders was one of 'extreme gravity" but that "there is not the slightest reason for panic"
 IeapoId's sister in Italy
 The British press assailed Leopold as sKing QuisIing"--in reference to the Norwegian pro-Nazi leader vid- kun who was charged with Trojan horse astivlties--and recalled that the Belgian monarch is brother Of the crown princess of Italy.
 The story of Leopolds tragic de-