Property losses are tremendous and can be figured in hundreds of millions of, fronts.. "As the. German Army Advances, it Teaves. behind it, a cor Hidor of Waste and destruction 35 miles wide in which not a building stands undamaged and even the green crops in the folds are devastated.
Systematic destruction and arson never before had been carried to such Tengths, fuldlling Herr Hitler's oft repeated threat to lay France and Britain to waste.
The German attempt to disrupt the Allied rear and tie up railway and Toad communications to prevent the army of the north-east from getting Back from Begium before the tank divisions snap the trap shut by reach-Ing the coast brought this battle 'There was enormous confusion in the early hours of the morning as the German war machine got under way again after 28 hours' respite, the first est for fighters and refuelling and Fepatring of machines.
'Allied armies. resisted stubbornly wist of Cambrai, between Eseault and Sambre, while in the south the French fat first succeeded in throwing German, Tight' motorized columns out of Peronne on the Somme. German pressure was swiftly intensified and In'rapid order they took Loan and Peronne back again and later swept into Amler
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