Characteristic of the unexpectedness with which the Nazi advance into France caught people in the interior is this letter from an Englishman who narrowly escaped falling into German hands many times during his departure from the country. Constantly fleeing before the Nazi armies were thousands of refugees, who, mercilessly attacked by bombing planes, were reduced to a pitiful condition, The more fortunate, with cars, found the roads blocked by refugees and were in little better plight when it came to food and shelter, The tremendous difficulties facing anyone seeking to reach the coast during this time are graphically described. in the letter, which follows.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.