Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/2944: Telegram

The Chargé in Germany (Kirk) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, May 14, 1940—midnight.
[Received May 14—11:09 p.m.]

1330. The DNB has just published the following announcement by the German high command:

“After the capitulation of Rotterdam and in view of the impending pressure upon title Dutch capital the Dutch command has given up the purposeless resistance and has ordered its troops to suspend fighting. In Zeeland fighting is continuing.”

Kirk