FLYING “HOUSEMAIDS”
INVASION OF HOLLAND The marshalling by the Dutch mili- , tary authorities in London of evidence relating to German methods in the invasion of Holland has produced a story which rivals any that has gone before. The statement, said to have been made by eye-witnesses, is to the effect that when German troopcarrying airplanes landed in a suburb of The Hague, there emerged from one a groulD of girls, dressed in the manner of Dutch housemaids and carrying shopping bags. They were German girls who, some months before, had been called home from domestic service in Holland. They led German troops to vital points in the city. Their shopping bags were to allay suspicion. But they contained hand grenades. The story is described as “absolutely authentic.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21203, 28 August 1940, Page 12
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