LUXEMBURG FEARS GERMAN INVASION.
INHABITANTS MOVE.
Disquieting Number Of
" Tourists."
PRECAUTIONS IN BELGIUM. United Press Association.—Copyright (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 16. Many inhabitants of Luxemburg, fearing invasion, have moved to Namur and other Belgian towns, according to the Brussels correspondent of "The Times."
The Germans are reported to have erected 21 pontoon bridges across the Moselle at intervals of 300 yds, and a disquieting number of German "tourists" have been entering Luxemburg. BruAels authorities have arrested a number of aliens.
The Swiss Federal Council, says a Berne message, announced that necessary steps had been taken for the security of the nation.
This announcement followed report# from Basle that 15 German divisions which had been withdrawn from the region of the North Switzerland frontier when Denmark and Norway were invaded hare returned. The Swiss General Staff is calling up further battalion^.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 91, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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