The Archive · 1940

Foreign Comment

The Flanders battle reached an unexpected conclusion which did not correspond to German claims of destruction of the Allied armies, the "Stockholm Allehanda" points out, states a special commentary issued here.

Tremendous troops transportations have been carried out under fierce pressure from superior German forces and a rain of bombs by German aircraft, the paper observes.

States the "Social Demokraten,"

"The Flanders battle has not become the destructive battle prophesied by the German press and radio. It is by no means a catastrophe, which might have been feared after the Belgian king's capitulation,

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