The Archive · 1940

German Army on the Move

Grenoble, Aug. 2.

The German army of occupation in France was on the move yesterday from the Spanish border to the Belgian frontier, according to reports reaching here last night.

German forces were moving toward seaports along the coast of northern France for what observers believed might be the beginning of the long-expected German Blitzkrieg against the British Isles.

German authorities yesterday reopened the frontier of the occupied and non-occupied zones to permit Belgian and French refugees to move south of the Somme River.

It was recalled that German authorities in the occupied areas Wednesday cut off all telephone. telegraph and mail traffic with the occupied zone. The entry and ext of refugees into the occupied zone was cut off last week—United Cairo, Aug. 2.

Royal Air Force bombers have made 10 intensive bombing raids on Italian concentrations in the vicinity of Kassala in the past two days, a Royal Air Force communique reported here last night.

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