A Month Of Disasters
May 10.—Germans invade Holland, Bel gium, Luxemburg.
May 15.—Holland surrenders to Germany.
May 16.—German mechanised columns break French line on Meuse, and pour into Northern France.
May 19. —Brussels and Antwerp taken by Germans.
May 20.—General Weygand displaces Marshal Gamelin as Allied Commander.
May 24.—Germans, wheeling westward through France, capture Boulogne, and approach Calais.
May 28.—Belgian army surrenders to Germany.
May 29—June 4.—Evacuation of British and French armies from Flanders to England.
June 5. —Whole German army thrown against French on Aisne-Somme front.
June 10.—Norway surrenders to Germany.
June 10.—Italy declares war on Britain and France.
June 11.—Germans near Paris.