Among the systematic demolition operations, it was said, none were more thorough or successful than those the Dutch carried out on their own territory before their evacuations, Everything that the German army, navy or air force could use was destroyed deliberately.
Oil and petrol stocks and shipyards and ship stores were burned or blown up. All aviation materials and planes which could be flown were brought to Allied fields from Holland. Whole Says British: Premier (Continued from page 7)
"In cutting down German bombers, we have been fighting our own battles as well as those of France, My confidence in our ability to. fight it out to the finish with German air force has been strengthened by the fierce encounters which have taken place and are taking place, "At the same time our heavy bombers are striking at the tap root of German mechanized power, and have already inflicted serious damage upon oil- refineries upon which the Nazi effort to dominate the world directly depends. We must expect that as soon as stability has been reached on the Western Front, the bulk of that force which gashed Holland into ruin and smoke in a few days will be turned upon us.
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