German infantry yesterday attacked Belgian troops along the River Lys, but failed to make headway as the Belgians counter-attacked frequently to throw back the enemy.
Almost all of the Belgian Army is fighting on Belgian territory under the personal leadership of King Leopold and his brother, Prince Charles, semi-official Belga news agency revealed. Belgian forces are deployed along the Scheldt lite; only Two Distinct Operations There were really two distinct operations in progress in northern France yesterday. The first, General Weygand!s strategic junction, of the armies of the north and centre on the plains of Flanders, and the sec-and, General von Reichenau's mobile army's rape of the French countryside, burning dozens of villages and destroying farms, factories, mines, roads, railroads and bridges to des-wor the Allied lines of communica-ion.
Motor-cyclists and armoured cars with machine guns and tanks reached a string of villages along the coast of the Channel between Dieppe and Boulogne yesterday. Within that zone there was a trail of desolation and destruction behind General von Reichenau's Army's progress Thousands of farms were burned and whole villages methodically set afire.
The blazing towns lit the night skies along the coast. The fires were so extensive that the red reflection was visible from the English coast. Hundreds of thousands of civilians kept just ahead of the German armies, driving their cattle towards safety to avoid the lighted torches of the invaders.
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