AERIAL TERRORISM
NAZI FRIGHTFULNESS CHILDREN GUNNED PARACHUTE ATTACKS (Reed. May 27. 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 25. Hand-to-hand fighting in' Belgium, parachutists dressed as women, and ruthless attacks on children are vividly described by wounded members of the British Expeditionary Force on arrival in England .as stretcher cases. Here arc typical stories: A Newcastle man who suffered a bayonet wound in the knee at Louvain said: “It was hot enough with the German parachuters coming down all round, carrying “tommy” guns and doing a lot of sniping. The best part was to see the Germans running away. We were bombed from one hospital to another for a fortnight before we reached the ship. I saw the wreckage of a hospital train which the Germans had bombed to pieces. It made my blood boil to see German planes diving on ruined Belgian villages and machine-gunning terrified children who ran screaming for shelter.” A Surrey man said: “It was pretty tough with the main enemy in front and parachutists coming down from the clouds behind. We turned a Bren gun on one cluster ancl a score were dead before they reached the ground. At least a dozen were dressed as women. They used “tommy” guns against everyone in sight.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 7
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