Not one railway station stood intact tonight in the "red triangle between the Belgian frontier, the English Chat nel and Amiens, Main railway commmunleations with the Belgian frontier, the. English Channel and England through Amiens were cut and the Allies. were forced back on longer secondary communications systems farther west.
To provoke chaos behind the Allied Hines, the Germans. depended sise on 20,000 motor-cycle troops who Tushed across the country on secondary roads fud-engaged in. similar destruction, Operating in small, light-armoured columns, The main body of German infantry. was in the rear and its progress was uch slower than that of the destructive forees far out in front. Nowhere did the Germans pierce Allied lines. completely and Franco-British divisions steadily fell back in good order, taking each German punch by shock-absorbing retreat as a boxer rolls with the punches.
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