FORTS INTACT
AT ANTWERP AND NAMUR
LIEGE STILL RESISTING,
GERMAN MURDER BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.
(Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON. May 15. A Belgian communique states that a majority of German attempts to cross the Meuse yesterday failed. The forts of Namur and Antwerp are intact. Liege is still resisting.
The German Air Force continues its ruthless raids on central and western Belgium. Louvain, which for the second time in a quarter of a ceretury is largely a mass of charred ruins, is the worst sufferer. Many civilians have been killed. The plight of refugees grows increasingly pitiable. Over 25,000 have reached Lille, some afoqt and others travelling in pushcarts, bicycles and lorries. All are exhausted and many are penniless. The German News Agency claims that over a thousand Belgians were taken prisoner at Liege. It admits that a few outlying Liege forts are still resisting.
A message from Berlin states that the German High Command announces that it no longer recognises Brussels as an open town.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1940, Page 6
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