The Archive · 1940

Corridor of Waste, Destruction

Property losses are tremendous and be figured in hundreds of millions francs. As the German Army Systematic destruction and arson never before had been carried to such s Herr Hitlers oft-

Allied rear and tie up railway and ications to prevent the divisions snap the trap shut by reaching the coast brought this battle to its climax.

There was enormous confusion in the early hours of the morning as the German war machine got under way again after 24 hours' respite, the first rest for and refuelling and of machines.

Allied armies resisted stubbornly of Cambrai, between Escault and while in the south the French succeeded in throwing German Peronne back again and later swept into Amiens.

"Nature of New German Wedge The German wedge approaching the exactly the same in form and as the original break-through at the Premier,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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