NOT DECISIVE
BATTLE ON MEUSE. HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) Received May 16, 9.35 a.m. RUGBY, May 15. The attack on the Maginot Line between Sedan and Metz continues. This also accords with anticipations, for this part of the line is less strong than the belt of fortifications opposite the German frontier. The fullest preparations to meet the present attack had, however, been made. Attention, meanwhile, is directed to the fighting on the Meuse. Important though that battle is says the Daily Mail, it will not be decisive. In contesting the advance through the Low Countries the Allies are forcing the enemy to sustain expensive losses before he faces the main defences. Other military correspondents remark that, while ruthlessness may have profited the Germans m Holland it will hate less effect against Britain and France. All precautions aghast the totalitarian methods of war have already been taken in the Maginot Line area and other prospective battlefield's.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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157NOT DECISIVE Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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