MASS OF RUINS.
LOUVAIN AGAIFDEVASTATED. CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. Received May 16, 12.20 p.m. LONDON, May 15. A Belgian communique states that the majority of the German attempts Across the Meuse yesterday faikd The forts at Namur and Antwerp are intact, and Liege is still resisting. The German air force continues its ruthless raids on Central and "Western Belgium. Louvam (18 miles Jiff of Brussels); .vhich for the second time in a quarter of a cen ury is largely a mass ot charred, ruins, is the worst sufferer. Many civilians have been killed. The plight of the refugees grows incrSsinSv 8 Pitiable. Over- 25,000 have reached LU e, some afoot and others pushcarts, and forries-all exhausted and many penmleThe German News Agency claims that ovei a thousand Belgians have gen UkenVisoner at Ljege and admits that a few of .the outlying Lae 0 e forts are sti'l resisting. The German High Command announces that it no longer recognises Brussels as an open town.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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161MASS OF RUINS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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