Authorized circles here said today that they had no knowledge of an alleged attempt by German parachute Ists to capture Queen Wilhelmina. The report was spread by an American radio station.
Queen Withelmin: yesterday expressed satisfaction ina message to the Dutch High Command at the prompt manner in which Dutch forces have resisted the German thrust into the Netherlands. Owing to. this resistance, Her Majesty said, the advance of the German troops can be Jconsidered stopped. Everywhere Germon troops are meeting with determined resistance from the Dutch defenders.
Four German armoured trains were damaged by Netherlands forces yes-day when they were caught trying to penetrate Dutch defences. One train was blown up just as it was crossing the mined bridge at Venloo, tittle frontier town where the notorious Best case occurred in which German troops violated the Dutch frontier to a Dutch and two English citizens.
Amsterdam Radio. announced last night that Dutch soldiers were resisting the advancing German forces on the rivers Jyssal and Maas. The Germans, it asserted, were using Dutch prisoners as shields in their advance.
More than 100 German warplanes! were shot down over Dutch territory yesterday, the first day of the Reich's neg" against the Netherlands, I source revealed last night. Another fourteen German planes were the Belgians and Dutch Brussels reports that a counter It appears the Germans the Meuse River front while In Spain to Stay Neutral Paris, May 11 Assurances have been received that Spain intends to remain neutral, state authori~ tative circles—Reuter.
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