NAZI PREPARATIONS ON DUTCH FRONTIER
Country Deserted, Towns
Evacuated (Received January 21, 9.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 20. The Government considers the frontier situation too serious to permit the relaxation of precautions, despite the resumption of leave in the Belgian army. Travellers from Berlin provided further evidence of unusual preparations. All trains are stopped 45 miles from the frontier and only passengers with tickets for the Netherlands are allowed to proceed. The carriage blinds are then drawn and Nazi guards patrol the corridors, closely watching to ensure nobody peeps out A passenger who was able to risk an occasional glance behind the blinds said the country was deserted and the towns evacuated.
The large number of hospital trains travelling from the west were fully occupied, suggesting that there have been more casualties in the Siegfried line than was thought, or else that there is much illness among the troops.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 100, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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