Paris, May 19, (NE hundred thousand Holland men, women and children were slaughtered in Rotterdam alone when German warplanes in massed formations systematically bombed the city district by district, razing one-third of the whole town. This is the most appalling series of air raids ever carried out against any open town; the horrifying toll claimed by the German bombers marks a turning point in the history of warfare, Authority for the account of Germany's merciless attack on Rotterdam, once a thriving port, today a city of death and misery, is the Netherlands Legation here, It issued a lengthy detailed. statement on the German invasion of the Netherlands and gave full facts and figures on Dutch losses and demolition:
Before the Netherlands Army was: compelled to Jay down its arms—in. order to save the rest of the civilian population from the fate of residents of Rotterdam-—it had lost 25 per cent, of its effectives. Of its total of approximately 400,000 men, 100,000, died on the battlefield~in the five days that they were able to withstand the German juggernaut.
The Netherlands Air Force was practically annihilated in a gallant but foredoomed effort to prevent the aerial massacre of the civilian regiment Nazi Demands Said Made to Sweden Stockholm, May 20, Germany has presented far-reaching demands to Sweden, unimpeachable German and Swedish informants here revealed today, The German demands include the right of transporting men, munitions and equipment across. the northern areas of Sweden to reinforce" the besieged German garrison at Narvik, northern Norway, they dis-
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