His Majesty recently visited and inspected officers' training units at Aldershot, The picture shows the King standing among a number of Staff Officers, in an effort to avoid being trapped by German columns which reached the Swiss border after advancing from the Paris front.
The French were reported to have rendered the Maginot Line fortresses—the pride of the French Army—useless before withdrawing southward. Reports that the Maginot Line fortresses were being blown up by the French could not be confirmed in official circles here, however—United Press.
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