CITIES BOMBED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 138, 11 May 1940, Page 8

CITIES BOMBED

GERMANS OVER BELGIUM. ARMY RESISTING. (United Press Association —By Electric 'JLeiegrapn. —Copyright.) LOi\.oOi>, iuay 10. The Brussels correspondent' of the Exchange telegraph agency says that German forces are moving forward in an attempt to cut on the communica-,'ti-on between Belgium and France, 'ilie casualties in tne nrst German air raid on Brussels are reported in Bondon to have totalled 400. ■ i lib Belgium wireless reports that tho Germans bombed two points 25 miles to the south and east of Brussels. , ■A Brussels message states that general mobilisation was proclaimed at 4.50 a.m. The people were warned to look out for paracuutei'S and saboteurs. Alter Brussels’s airport was bombed ambulances clanged through .the streets continuously. The anti-air-craft guns ceased lire at 7 a.m.' Trains ran without interruption and dispatch riders dashed through the city. Jemelle is reported to be atlame. «... NO WARNING. Brussels reports that a state of alarm was announced and the censorship instituted early this morning. An official spokesman stated that the situation was not blear, but there was no question that Evcre, outside Brussels, had been bombed, and several houses destroyed. A Belgian wireless proclamation announces that Germany made no demarche before the aggression. The .Government appealed to England and France to implement their guarantees, and King Leopold lodged a protest in Berlin. The" broadcast added that the Germans came across the frontier at four -points. A Paris message says it is officially stated that the Belgian army is resisting the invasion. Meanwhile reports from Belgium are not connected, but they state that parachutists came down at Nivelles (south of Brussels), Saint Trond, and elsewhere. Scores of ’planes were flying over Brussels and most other districts amid very heavy anti-aircraft fire. Antwerp and Jemelle were reported to have’ been bombed. Thirty-seven ’planes bombed Antwerp and destroyed a military hospital. Several buildings in Brussels were ruined. The station at Jemelle was wrecked. “THEY’LL NOT PASS.” On Brussels bombs fell on the thicklypopulated area near the centre of the city where two were killed and 52 injured. Land, fighting is developing on the frontier. The Belgian Ambassador to London (Baron do Marchienne), interviewed, said: “All T. say is we are invaded. When we fight we-fight like blazes; You can depend on that. They’ll not pass this time. We were invaded savagely. We offered no offence.” M. Pierlot (Belgian Prime Minister) in a statement said bombs had fallen in many places in Brussels and fires had broken out at sevei'hl points at Etterbeek. A bond) had fallen in the Place Madou, near the centre of Brus-sels-ymausing a fire, damage and casualties. All Germans living in Brussels have been arrested. Several air figlits occurred above Tournai, accompanied by heavy antiaircraft fire.