London, May 20, No confirmation could be obtained Foreign Office circles today regarding reports that Germany had presented several demands Sweden—United Press, the river.
'A Deadly Furrow The rosd to Rotterdam was now open to. the Germans and two. armured divisions, reinforced by infan-{ry landed from seaplanes "and parachute troops, plunged through, Thus the "waterline defences," Which had remained Intact unt that ime despite violent German attacks, were turned on the flank. Holland troops in those lines were. attacked from back and front; they had no chance.
Wasting no time, the German _Air Force went into action against Rotterdam, city of 500,000 people; home of one-seventeenth of the" total Netherlands population, the Legation slatement continued. Two. bombing Squadrons "came over the city in louse formations at an altitude of! about 60 feet, skimming over the roof-tops. As they flew out in a straight Tine right across the town, they sowed a deadly furrow of delayed bombs, each of more than 2,200 pounds.
When these missiles exploded, they tore a swathe of death and destruetion right across the city. Not a sin-fle house in that me escaped; and of their inmates but ttle was Jet, Bach bomb spelled a story similar to those of the bomb, that razed. Guernica, frst victim of "total" aerial warfare, and Shanghai, where bombs 31 three crowded cross roads claimed 2 toll of about 3,500.
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