THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43

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Group Strictly confidential ! Cultural policy matters Only for the personal information service. Service use; in own 4 / responsibility to destroy! 47 reports of May 14, 1940 First edition. SENDER LONDON Nat. Time : 20.45 Language: Czech Reception : very disturbed. On all roads and routes of Belgium the French and English troops advance. The commander of the British army General Lorg Gorth has issued a daily order, in which he says among other things: I am faced with the most difficult fights and the decisive moments of our history. But England will win. " Late in the evening the Germans have attacked the dams of the Zuider lake. A 32 km long dam has been bombed. - According to official news eus England, Holand and Belgium, the Germans have lost 6o0 aircraft. In Belgium, and in the Netherlands, the fling-weapon of the Allies carried out the blasting of numerous bridges and railway lines and crossings. The distress of the German troops grows from hour to hour and its location is always worse. British and French troops have landed ll km north of Narwik. The official English army report reports that heavy losses have been brought to the Germans. From all the cantons of Sahweiz there are reports that citizens' guards are being set up under the Bevöl - C kerung. The Swiss leadership is to be brought to a high level. Further defence measures are also being taken in the Balkans. Uruguay and Panama have also joined the common protest of the United Steats against Germany's invasion of Holland.