The Archive · 1940

Antwerp Heavily Bombed

Paris, May 10.

The Belgian Embassy "learns that Antwerp fas been bombed by 37 planes, and a military hospital dee-

'A German bomb fell near the German Embassy here today. Measures fare being taken to organise assistance Gibraltar Closure Denied London, May 10.

British naval authorities today categorically denied rum~ ours that Gibraltar is closed to shipping. Such rumours, spread through foreign—_agoneies abroad, were classified as for those wounded by the bombs roped by German planes today.

The King has left for the headquarters of the Belgian Army.

All Germans in Brussels have been arrested, andthe Government has declared the capital an open city and has taken steps to ensure that troops will march through on their way' to the front.

Tt is learned from 'Tournal, near the French-Belgian border, that German planes flew over the' town and were engaged in combat by Belgian fnachines. Ant-aircraft batteries went into action—Havas.

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