ARRIVAL IN PARIS
BELGIAN PARLIAMENT HARROWING ORDEAL (Reed. May 25, 3 p.m.) PARIS, May 24. Members of the Belgian Parliament and their families have arrived in Paris from Ostend. Their train was bombarded in the north of France by 38 planes which destroyed a tender end a section of the railway. The party, many of whom are aged, abandoned the‘train and their belongings and walked 30 miles without food or rest, experiencing a harrowing aerial bombardment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 11
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76ARRIVAL IN PARIS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 11
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