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GENERAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940
It's A Strange War
By Ralph Heinzen United Press Staff Corres
United Press Staff Correspond French army general headquarters, May 21—(UP)—Out at the front today the Allies and Germans are fighting the strangest war ever fought.
Allied bombing planes dived one after another, like hawks after their prey, bombing roads and bridges to halt the tanks. But each time a bomb tore a great funnel shaped hole in a road, wiping out four or five tanks, the others would simply detour around the obstacle.
Ahead and alongside the tanks ride German motorcycle troops, scouts and traffic policemen combined. When the planes bomb a
road, the motorcyclists step on the gas, find detours, and lead the tanks to them.
By Frederick C. Oechsner United Press Staff Correspond
With the German army in Belgium, May 21—(UP)—Famished dogs, left behind by their women and children owners in a panic flight, raced crazily about the streets of Louvain today, past the smouldering ruins of the beautiful library which America rebuilt after the World War.
Louvain is the most shot up town I have ever seen in this war or the
Polish war. Whole blocks have been laid waste by the joint action of German Stuka dive bombing planes and artillery.
Meantime the German infantry and light transport crossed the river on Pontoon bridges.
At Lowenhoven, on Belgian side of the Wilhelmina canal, we saw the first signs of real fighting where the Germans had captured a strong pill box.
Tracks at the railroad station were like pretzeis and we were warned by the commandant that the tracks were still mined and that we should take care where we stepped.
Now the people are starting to return to the city and a university professor has offered to act as mayor and form a municipal council.
"We captured it by attacking from an unexpected direction." an officer said. "That's the secret of warfare today—attack from where they don't expect it."
At Tongeren I saw my first sample of the dive bomber work since Poland, and what the Stukas could do to a town in combination with tanks. The railroad station was a flattened pile of bricks. Whole fronts of houses had been shorn away. Beds, wardrobes, bathtubs, kitchen tables, baby carriages, hung crazily or stood as if in openfront doll houses. Restaurant fronts were blown away, their tables still intact as if awaiting guests.
As we approached Tirlmont the tenacity of the peasantry became ap-
parents. In driblets, farm families who had fled were returning in horse or dog drawn carts. Their children perched atop bedclothes, their hungry dogs welcoming them with staccato barks and plaintive whines.
The Germans warned children to stay off the roads because of the racing stream of transport.
At Tirlemont a general staff officer proudly showed us where a German tank corps had gone around a dynamited bridge by smashing its way through factory yards and walls until it reached the next bridge. That is what the Germans are doing in their "flood" method of advance, by which, when they meet an obstacle and can not beat their way through, they "flow" around it.
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