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NAZIS IN SEDAN: RAPID ADVANCE EAST OF MEUSE
THE ENTIRE AREA OF BELGIUM, EAST OF THE MEUSE RIVER, IS NOW IN GERMAN HANDS.
This area comprising the Ardennes mountain region stretches from the Luxembourg border westward to the Meuse,
The Germans are on the right bank of the Meuse on which lies the important Belgian citios of Liego, Namur, Dinant and, in French territory, Sedan.
Sedan, one of the big cities on the Franco-Belgian border which was the scene of bitter fighting 25 years ago was evacuated. yester day.
The Germans claim that it is now in their hands. This claim has now been substantiated by reports from Paris.
Sedan, according to maps of France, is bekled the Maginot Line so that if the German claim is corred the Nazis appear to have pierced the Maginot Line defences at this point,
Battle Of The Mouse By HERBERT KING
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
Drive Into France. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, May 11. (UP). The German High Commund claims that Nozi forces to day carried out a drive isto France in an effort to break through the Allied defences and to flank the Maginot Line.
It is claimed that the line be tween Liege and Namur has been passed and that attacking forces have reached the. River Meuse between Namur and Givet.
. this is true, it means that the Nazis are in position to threaten the extended portion of the Maginot Line which runs along the southern and
southeastern Belgium border. The Bane German communique stated that the invnders have crossed French border as the greatest Meuse French soll under Battle of mecimised forces the world, the protection of caseless German has ever seen continued along their attacks, Belgian second line of defence and
PARIS, May 14 (UP)-A German mechanised columui took Sedan, the
011 the Maginot Line Inside the French border.
Dam
Amsterdam
Zwolle
Baarn
rnberg
The Hague
Tilburg
Map showing the Zooland area, the only part of Holland in
which resistance will be continued."
Mammoth
Battles
Western
on
Air
AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM BURN FIERCELY: BLACKOUTS LIFTED TO SAVE CITIES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
THE HAGUE, MAY 14 (UP),-HOLLAND HAS SURRENDERED TO THE GERMAN INVASION.
THE NEWS OF THIS STARTLING AND DRAMATIC CAPITULA- TION WAS CONTAINED IN AN ORDER ISSUED TO-DAY BY LIEUT,- GENERAL H. G. WINGELMAN, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NETHERLANDS ARMY, AND AT PRESENT TITULAR HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Fighting is to cease throughout Holland, with the exception of Zeeland, states the communique.,
·Blackouts and other war measures throughout the country are to be discontinued immediately in order to prevent unnecessary destruction and bloodshed, stated the General's Command.
Thus, the great unoccupied areas, as well as the northern part of central Holland which is overrun, have surren- dered.
CITIES ABLAZE
Large sections, of Amsterdam and Rotterdam are ablaze.
the These fires were caused chiefly by German bombs,
Front
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
AIR BATTLES ON A MAMMOTH SCALE ARE TAKING PLACE IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM,
:
and secondly by Dutch defence measures....
The Germans now dominate most of the northern front and have been victorious in the northern sections of central Holland.
ZUYDER ZEE POUNDED
General Winkelman had carlier admitted that the
MUSSOLINI TO GIVE ORDER
TO FIGHT?
By Froderick Kub.... UNITED -PAZED STAFF CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, May 15 (UP)— The anxiety of neutral diplomats In London is growing at the pos-
It is claimed that the breach in the LATEST REPORTS FROM THE WESTERN-FRON northern provinces were fully in enemy hands but claim-sible imminence of Italy's entry:
Greebe Line, southeast of Amersfort has been widened, this being an
Another German mechanised parently another dunking attack, and column advanced on Dinant as Ger- that further territory has been won
bombers,
co-operating within the direction of Utrecht. ground forces, bombed and strafed'
Naci Advances Confirmed
man
Mr. J. Alex Morris, "United Press"
INDICATE.
Several hundred British, French and German planes have apparently engaged in the world's greatest battle over Sedan, the French city on the Maginot Line which the Germans claim to have entered.
A "United Press" message
the French advance guards who had contacted the ground forces.
The French claim the first phase of Foreign Editor, In his summary of the battle is nearly over in the Messe the calles sent from Europe to New from Berlin quotes DNB as ref river sector, with Allled planes York to-day, confirms that the Ger- porting that 69 British and heavily bombing the German rear-man army has smashed through to French planes were guards, slowing them up with heavy the edge of France,
down over Sedan, losses of life.
The Germans are concentrating iheir grealest power along the entire
Belgian. front in the Ardennes and Meuse sectors in an Tori to nulflank the left wing of the Maginot Line.
Kunming Has
brought Raid Alarm
report from
Iller's motorised legions have! There is по leed through Holland and to the sea, and have broken through the Allied sources of the battle. Belgian main defence line and reached Sedan in France.
A gigantic test of the strength-the
PLEASE Turn To Pago 7.
HUGE GERMAN DRIVE TOWARDS NORTH SEA
By HERBERT KING
(UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT) PARIS, May 14 (UP)—The fifth day of the great German attack through Belgium and Holland saw the offensive assume n distinctly dual character. Firstly, and most important, the Germans have launched à terrific drive towards the North Sen. Their main objective appears to be to gain control of the entire aren north of the River Schelde, which empties into the sen at Belgium's great seaport of Antwerp.
R.A.F. Bombers Active Bombers of the R.A.F.. however, are engaged in increasing numbers in attacking with the fallest possible vigour the German armies which are engaged in the attempt to cross the Meuse River between Namur and
· Sedan,
No details are available, bys "Reuter", of the R.A.F. action, but it I understood that every available R.A.F. machine that can take to the air has been engaged in continuous operations.
Germany's Blitzkrieg air attacks on France have increased in ferocity during the past 24 hours and through out yesterday, air raids on north-cast France were continuous.
Maternity Hospital Wracked
In one village a small hospital was wrecked.
maternity
A large number of civilians liave'
A British Air Ministry communique
The second objective la to bourg towards the River Meuse and been-küled. break through the Maginot Line the Mease Valley.
The French claim that the heavy{šoys: in the vicinity of Sedan or at Marisol
Line fortifications at "The object of our air operations Longwy. Longwy is the big Longwy and in the Moselle sector in the battle now developing in the French city near where the
further Boulla have completely Low Countries has been to harass Belgian, Luxembourg and halted all Germans thrusts in these the enemy's communications and to protect the advance of the Allied French borders meet,
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
KUNMING, May 15 (UP)-Two squadrons of Japanese planes. crossed into Yurinan Province from Kwangsl yesterday morn- ing.
The air raid alarm was sounded at Kunming at 10.10 am and continued until 1.10 p.m..
The raiders are reported to have bombod Kwelyang. No details are available.
NAZI DRIVE
STOPPED
In World's Greatest
Tank Battle
SPECIAL, TO TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, May, 15 (UP). The German drive on Brussels from Liege and the King Albert Canal has been halted in the greatest Longwy, un important steel mill, Throughout Monday and Tuesday Mechanised Battle the world has
artns.
half Germans -· · are. machantedulis westwards and bourg southwards..
!
An equai-number of Brilish-and French troops are rushing caxiyards .and northi-tastwards.
Great Tank Battle
into the war,” ed that the Dutch were still holding out at Denshalder,
Many diplomats believe that which is the main base overlooking the enclosing dam of Mussolini may order Italian the Zuyder Zee where the Germans tried to pierce the troops to move in the very near
dykes between north and future. northeast Holland.
REFUGEES FLOCK TO LONDON
By ROBERT DAWSON UNITED PRESS" STAFF
CORRESPONDENT)
He said the Germans pounded the
the Zuyder Zee Dam with heavy artillery and launched one attack this morning which was re- pulsed.
Dutch Public Stunned General Winkelman has been the titular hend of the Government since the Queen fled to London.
The Dutch public are stunned by
LONDON, May 15 (UP)-- Bedraggled, unshaven and, in the announcements. The press has shoes, explained that the Queen was forced without cnses,
to flee to England because the Ger- many British, French and Dutchmans had discovered a plan to set refugees continued to pour into up the Dutch Court in Zeeland and Mondon last night in special prepared to bomb it.
trains.
They were herded into large holls, where their passports were examined to make sure there were no "Fifth Columnists" among them.
I arrived in London from Amster- dam with three other "United Press” correspondents who were included in the refugees,
Reports that Mussolini has ordered
Italian Ambargader in Madrid to
return immediately Rome to join. the consultations now under way between Il Duce and Aly Maher Pasha have heightened the tainty.
uncer-
Inducement To Spain Neutral sources envisage the pos- ability that Italy will try to riduce. Spain to join the Axis in military operations, in order to launch a land attack on Gibraltar from the Spanish mainland.
at Sierra
"German guns are already reported) to have been installed
According Ronda.
to reliable neutral Sources, Italy has been pressing Egypt. Earlier Statement
to conclude a Non-Aggression Pact AMSTERDAM, May 14 (Reuter), and thus undermine the 1936 Anglo- the Dutch Com- Egyptian Alliance Egypt, its According to mander-in-Chief yesterday, the miile claimed, has steadfastly refused to
in Holland is as meet the Italian wishes. tary position follows:----
The northern provinces are in the hands of life enemy.
Attempts to attack the damn across
We came across to an east coast the mouth of the Zuyder Zee have port in a British warship.
We saw Queen Wilhelmina
and
been frustrated.
Rotterdam, on the northern side of the Netherlands Government board the River Mana, is in Dutch hands. two British destroyers, which quickly whisked them across the North Sen.
Painful Business
Hook Base Hold
Zveland is in Dutch hands.
Mass Raids On Britain Threatened
Frank Statement By Nazi Spokesman
Holder, the important base, nt, the The fight of many of the refugees Hook, is in Dutch hands, ga
The position at Brabant is un- was a wretched and painful business.
Many bables in their mother's arms certain. had not been fod for over. 24 hours.
On the Dutch frontier the troops Many of the sights were pitiful in the extreme and wives had left
have withdrawn to the water line. troops.
SPECIAL-TO-THE-"!TELEGRAPHIA Air defence organizations are eli Mothers, sisters
BERLIN, May 15 (UP)- ||Raco Against Timo
centre, is under direct bombardment,
their men-folk behind to carry on worlding despite serious losses; night, our bomber continued to
The Commander-in-Chief said that ....... On the one hand, a million and a Heavy German attacks have also,
Two thousand tanks were engaged the struggle against the invading
seen the struggle was difficult but the fight Germany has issued a frank rashing their been broken in Forbach and Wissem-attack the enemy on the roads, rail-ever known,
ways and bridges leading to the
was worth whlic, It was a fight for warning that mass air operations Dutch and Belgian battlefelds. In the battle which took place on hordes. Many will never be
front oxiending from Tongres, again,
Lord Halifax met the Dutch Dutch independence and existence will be launched against England Roads Blocked
Tillemont and north of Huy.
centuries ago by in the very near future." French motorized unlis are al- "Considerable damage has been The battlefield is littered with the Government members, who arrived for freedom won
the Prince of Orange.
A statement to this effect was ready, engaged in the great tank done to enemy lines of communica-wrecks of tanks of both sides which in a British cruiser,
Among the refugees was the Earl
Gravo Situation Admitted '- have been put out of neilon.
issued by an authoritative source this batile in central Belgium, two, tion, thousand lanke being involved In The roads In Brabant (Holland) The battle took place a mile injof Chichester.
FARIS, May 14 (Rouler)Ao-morning. what was the first all-mechanised Have 'been successfully blocked, front of the strong defensive positions
cording to well-informed milliary The Nazi spokesman pointed out billlo in history...; -
"Further north on the Dutch battle-which the Belgions had erected after He told me: "When we left last
sircles fere, the altuation that the capitulation of the Nether fields, important railway bridges their retreat from the King Albert night, most of Rotterdam was afre.
The Germans were still landing Holland regarded · na grave, stands would permili German air bases The French claim to be holding the were attacked and a fird was seen Canal.fortifications.
- French”» réports; claim that in this sector at to bronk out.
following the German advaizoo to- to be instantaneously moved to with parachutists." The German 'offensive is progress- Germin ndvance
I spoke to a wounded refugee ftom wards Utrecht and Holterdam in 180 miles of the English const.: 2 ofj ing on two axis. Firstly, they are Tuilemont, Tongres and north "Our fighter aircraft have been German advance in the sector has
Brussels.. He had been wounded by
The military situation in Belgium 2-field-and-lts-approśchem.
lactalfed that the French-lanka-bomb splinter rcom Auchon taixsin-Chappelle) paal-The-Germans
I was Heil," he mid, " Liege tid Maastricht in the direction turn the left wing of the Maginet Our Bghter pilots inflicted on the crews, as well as the tanks thoin-
"The noise alons during, the four of Brussels and Antwerp,
Line by breaking across the Meuse, enemy, lo-day at least four times as velves, showed qualitative equality if
superiority over thots, of the days continuous bombing was enough Secondly, they are driving from between Namur and Cover, where a muck damarea as they themselves not
to drive one insane” Coblenz and Trier, through · Lüxem- PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. waffered."
Whon the two forces meet, the world will reverberate to a clash such ga it has never known balge,
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· pouring through Belgium and Holland Nuwparently hope/constantly, on patrol over the battle- (been halted everywhord, c
enerny,
the
Shit Way Holl"
In future raids; German bombers has hardly varied at all to-day, would be escorted by Messerschmitt
The German advance guards, after fighters whiell wouldongage their big bound forward of nearly 100 RAF pursuit plance while
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