One of the most serious fires of the afternoon was caused by a bomb which burst in a large industrial plant in the suburbs, A number of workers inside was killed or injured; they were immediately removed, while their fellow-workers continued with their job.
Hardest hit of the Paris districts was the peaceful suburb of Bois de Doulogne. A seven-storey apartment house was struck by a particularly large bomb, and the missile penetrated from the roof right to the first floor of the building, The Passy and Auteuil first thought they would be able to along the Oise French artillery batteries opened fire against enemy troop close the gap, and the Armies of the north were under their orders. Moreover, retirement then would have involved almost certainly destruction of the fine Belgian Army of over 20 divisions and abandonment of the whole of Belgium.
"Therefore, when the force and scope of the German penetration were realized, and when the French Generalissimo Weygand assumed command in place of General Gamelin, an effort was made by the French and British Armies in Belgium to keep on holding the right hand of the Belgions and to give their own right hand te a newly-created French Army which was to have advanced on the Somme in great strength to clasp it. The German eruption, however, swept to the right and rear of the Armies in the north. Eight or nine armoured diyisions, each of about 400 armoured intact; The anti-air raid organization vehicles of different kinds, were employed. This force cut off all ce munications between us and the main French Armies.—Reuter.
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