PRINCESS JULIANA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24327, 18 June 1940, Page 7

PRINCESS JULIANA

ON GESTAPO’S BLACK LIST QUEBEC, June 16, (Received June 17, at 10 p.m.) A report from Montebello states that a source close to the Dutch Royal Family said Princess Juliana came to Canada because her name is on the Gestapo black list.

THE FRENCH CAPITAL NAZIS IN CONTROL CURFEW ORDERED “A GRAVEYARD HUSH” LONDON, June 16. A neutral journalist who entered Prris after the German occupation says the Germans are guarding buildings and patrolling the city and suburbs, and have mounted anti-tank guns on the bridges. Apart from the Germans, the boulevards are empty. The Germans have ordered a 9 p.m. curfew, and "also a complete black-out. After nightfall there is a graveyard hush over the city. Most of the hotels, restaurants, theatres and kinemas are closed, and no trains are running. It is estimated that three-quarters of the population fled from the city before the Germans’ arrival. On the road to Paris, wherever fighting occurred, there is havoc. Village streets are wrecked and littered with debris,, including perambulators, tanks.' guns, ana carcasses of horses, cows and dogs. German bombers reduced parts of Amiens to a shambles. The cathedral was untouched. Every street and square in Bordeaux is packed with vehicles _ and refugees. Restaurants are struggling heroically to feed the incomers. A German communique states: “ The whole front from the Channel to the Swiss frontier is sweeping forward victoriously. Motorised and non-motorised forces are nursning and overtaking the fleeing, defeated and exhausted enemy along the Loire. “The number of prisoners is continually increasing. Waves of planes attacked roads and railways along the Loire, where the ener - ” is_ retreating. Strong tank and mechanised troons are advancing southward and south-east of Paris, and on the upper Marne the Plateau Langres was crossed. The French are withdrawing from the Saar and the Rhine, and we have thus broken through. Strong fortifications in the region of Longuyon were taken. Our troons crossed the Rhine between Stavold and Saarable. The Maginof Line is broken along the whole of this from. The upper Rhine was crossed east of Colmar in an attack on a broad front. The enemy lost 40 planes yesterday. Seven of ours are missing.”