17 MAY 1940, Page 6

Some of the German soldiers dropped from parachutes in Holland

are said to have been disguised as clergymen. This is the church militant in a new guise, particularly if these clerks in holy orders are furnished with the usual sub-machine gun, hand-grenades, folding bicycle and the rest. But I doubt whether they had. I am told they were dropped, by deliberate design, near monasteries, schools, and such places, where they would least provoke remark.