The Archive · 1939

6,000,000 French at Posts

"Paris, Sept. 22. Six million Frenchmen were their assigned posts today whi mechanized units and artillery ce inued their seemingly unending march to the front British preparations were also reported to be progressing on a tremendous seale.—United Press, Aachen Evacuation Confirmed Amsterdam, Sept. 22.

According to a nuniber of travel-lors, both German and neutral, ariv= ing' here recently from Aachen confirm that, contrary to the: statements made' in Berlin yesterday by the German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, a large part of the tefvilian population of that town has "These travellers saw tong lines of refugees heading for he interior on foot. All those leaving Aachen had to leave the key to their residences with the police authorities—Havas.

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