Yorkshiremen Hold Up German Advance
MAGNIFICENT
AGAINST
SHOW
HEAVY
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London, To-day.
HOW TWENTY YORKSHIREMEN, with one anti- FRENCH
tank gun, held up a German tank column of fifty
vehicles for nearly three hours during the height AIR FORCE
of the German advance on Paris, is related by an
eye-witness journalist, with the British Army in ACTIVITY
France.
More than a hundred German soldiers who leaped from the vehicles and dashed to the hill-top were
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Paris, To-day.
ISOLATIONIST LEAD IN SENATE
Washington, To-day.
"We ought to serve notice that the great majority of Senators are not going to vote for war and that we are not going to get into it," declared Senator Wheeler, a Democratic cóndidate for the presidential nomination, In the Senate yesterday..
Senator. Wheeler added that he would break with the Democratic party if it becamò a "War Par- ty."--Router.
WHIRLWIND
Last evening's Air Minis- RAID BY engaged in a fierce pitched battle by a small Bri-try communique reports that R.A.F.
tish company.
Eventually, the British party with- drew across a river after a young sub- fire altern had swum across under and towed a boat across with one hand, in which the wounded were rescued. This was only one of many epic feats of gallantry performed by Bri- tish troops during the past few days, when only the greatly superior mass of the German troops and the weight of their armoured equipment had been forcing our men to return.
All have shown the same superb spirit of high courage against bombs, shelfs, and waves of infantry as was shown recently In Flanders, though on a smaller scale.
JAPANESE BOMB THUNGKING
Chungking, To-day.
London, To-day.
incendiary
the French Air Force was ac- tively engaged in the violent battle which is going on in the Seine Valley and Argon-bombs were dropped at the rate
nc.
Squadrons all day long attacked enemy mechanised units both with bombs and machine-guns damaging Japanese bombers yesterday severe-numerous tanks and causing the enemy ly bombarded Chungking, killing 60 forces to disband in disorder. and wounding many Hundreds of houses and offices were demolished and big fires started.
A large number of enemy fighting 'planes are claimed to have been brought down during numerous aerial The raiders came over in four combats. waves, totalling 117 'planes, and Successive reconnaissance flights dropped over 200 bombs.
furnished the High Command
with Attacked by Chinese fighters, one valuable information concerning the But the most fearless courage can-bomber was shot down.-Reuter. enemy positions.-Havas. not stand against the machine. In aeroplanes, tanks, anti-tank guns and artillery of every kind, the Germans have outnumbered the British.
Fight Way Out
As the situation grows clearer, It seems likely that casualties, although heavy, will be lighter than first ap- peared probable. •
In many cases, whole detachments belleved to have been surrounded, fought their way back to their units.
ITALY'S ECONOMIC STRAIN BEGINS IMMEDIATELY
London, To-day.
THE FOLLOWING ARE some facts from authoritative sources concerning the economic position of Italy. arriving in twos and threes out of Firstly, 75 per cent. of Italy's whole import trades are sea
Unshaven men, exhausted, but re- markably cheerful, are continuously
the confused area of the zone of operations.
of
High explosive and
over a hundred per minute during one ten-minute action yesterday by R.A.F.: medium bombers in one series of at- tacks directed against enemy concen- trations advancing on the Lower Seine south-east of Rouen.
Attacking in sections, the aircraft released salvos on their targets, wreck- ing convoys, scattering mechanised columns, blocking road junctions, and setting the woods ablaze.
Hits were scored on a column of lorries
near Les Andelys, twenty armoured fighting vehicles on a road one mile south-east of the town re- ceived the full salvo of high explosive bombs, and ten large tanks standing by. the roadside at Suzay were enveloped in smoke and flying debris when heavy calibre bombs exploded on the road.
Other targets successfully attacked during this ten minutes' intensive as- sault included an anti-aircraft bat- terý near Les Andelys and a me chanised column at Racheville.
At the height of this raid, one of the bomber's starboard airscrews was shot
off and the engine disabled but after dropping their bombs on the targets the crew returned safely. on "the one undamaged engine. British Wireless. ITALIANS BLOW UP BRIDGE
carried. Fifty-five per cent. enters the Mediterranean via Gibraltar; six per cent. via the Suez Canal; and se- Everyone has a grim tåle to tell of
condly, Italy's self-sufficiency is far below Germany's. smashing dive-bombing attacks, ·or. massed assaults by German motor-i While possibly able to feed herself Italy has no export surplus for Ger-
Paris, To-day. The Italians have blown up the cyclist machine-gunners or tanks, or for a year, she is gravely deficient in many except possibly fruit and vegeta-
essential raw materials such as iron,bles. There will thus be a substantial | bridge at Ventimiglia, five miles from flerce artillery fire.
Some of the enemy motor-cycle coal, coke, petroleum, timber, copper, loss of their combined economic poten- the Franco-Italian frontier.
tial as soon as Italy has consumed her
linking battle- tin, and rubber!
The main railway link Thirdly, even supposing the stocks of strategic raw materials. France and Italy passes through Ven- Allies aro
timiglia.—Reuter. forced temporarily to Reuter. abandon the Mediterranean, Italy and Germany ·would find them- selves dangerously short of niokel, tin, molybdenum, cobalt, tungsten, copper, rubber, and textiles; and colonial produce.
had
combinations
British dresses packed away in them, appar- ently for use as disguises. It is re- have ported that German infantry been seen wearing khaki uniforms.- Reuter.
HAILE SELASSIE MOVING
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Fourthly, with the Allies in control- of the Mediterranean, Italy's position is even more serious.
The only external supplies available would be from the exportable sur- plus of domestic produce of Central Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Swit- zerland, Scandinavia, in all of which she must compete with Germany both for materials and transportation (e.g. While refusing any definite state-insufficiency of tank-wagons to carry ment regarding Selassie's future ac- petroleum, both to Italy and Germany tivities, the aide-de-camp · that the Emperor will soon be send- ing out a message to his people, Havas.
press.
revealed
from Rumanía).
Italian forces in East Africa, more- over, would have to subsist on already accumulated stocks.
Liability To Germany Fifthly, once her very limited ac- cumulation of war stock is consumed, Italy becomes an increasing liability to Germany, a competitor for the same. available resources including. Ger-
RUSSIAN DEMARCHE IN WASHINGTON
Washington; -To-day. The Russian Ambassador, Mr. Ou- mansky, spent a hour with Mr. Cor-many's own stocks. dell Hull yesterday morning and is belleved to have spoken in strong terms concerning interference with shipments of American goods to Rus- sia through Vladivostok. Reuter..
Moreover, the considerable gap:In, the blockade hitherto constituted by
acting us the channel for Ger 's Import and export trade with the outside world.
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