English Translation

GEOPRESS No.330 (40/69) October 1940 BETWEEN STANDIUM IN WEST. After the conquest of northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands by the German troops in the months of May and June 194O, these territories were placed under German military administration. The political boundaries of these states are unlikely to change until the peace treaty, but only the Belgian (before 1 9:g German) area of Eupen-Malmedy was rejoined to Germany in May. In August and September of this year, in the areas of the former Western war scene, in which the native language of the population is predominantly German, instead of the military, German civil administration, the German language was introduced and the official language was declared. At the same time, these areas were also closely linked to the German Reich by economic measures. In this way, there is now a border zone in the West, which, although not yet politically, yet culturally and economically, is attached to the Deutsche Reich. This zone tntass: the following three areas, each of which has its own civil administration: The area in qkm of the population of Alsace (the former French departments of Upper Rhine and Lower Rhine) 8.294 1.219.000 Lorraine (the previous French department of Moselle) 6.228 696.000 Luxembourg (the earlier Grand Duchy of Luzemburg) 2.586 297,000 Declaration of signs: l(black area)= German Empire. 2(sharp area)= Under German civil administration. 3(spotted area) = Under German military administration. (GEOPRESS.) GEOPRESs. No. 331(40/70) October_1940 THE BOMBARDING OF THE BIRMA strait. Sign clarification: l(white surface)= China. 2(dotted area),= British (Birma, India). 3= French Indochina. 4éblack area), = occupied by the Japanese in China. 5= Japanese bases in Franz. Indochina. 6= Gulf of Tonking. 7= Railways. 8= BurmaStrassc. 9= the bridges and creasing points of the Burma Strait bombed by the Japanese air fleet. (GEOPRESS.)