Berlin, May 21.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler yesterday Jempowered the Commander-in-Chief the German army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, to establish a military administration in the occupied (territories of Holland, Belgium [and Laxembourg.
General Brauchitsch immediately appointed the infantry General von Falkenhausen military commander of Belgium and the Netherlands. will head the military administration fof the Netherlands until the arri fof Dr. Arthur Seys-Inquart, who was recently appointed Reich Commissar fof Holland. The fatter will have his headquarters at the Hague—United Press.
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