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日四十月四
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GERMANS IN RETREAT
HISTORIC BATTLE OF THE TANKS
IN OISE VALLEY
ENDS IN FRENCH VICTORY: LE CATEAU RE-CAPTURED
"It Would Be Foolish to Disguise Gravity of Hour" MASTERY CAN BE GAINED ONLY BY FURIOUS AND UNRELENTING ASSAULT
-Churchill
Premier Warns Britain That Full Force Of Germany Will Soon Be Turned On Island
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter).-Broadcasting at 8 p.m. to-day, Mr. Winston Churchill said: "I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in this solemn. hour in the life of our country and Empire and of our Allies and, above all, in the cause of freedom. RAVAGING OPEN COUNTRY
"A tremendous battle is raging in France and Flanders. The Germans, by a remarkable combination_of_air bombing and heavily armoured tanks have broken through the French defences, north of the Maginot Line. Strong columns-of-their armoured vehicles are ravaging open country which, for the first day or two, was
Hitler Orders Dismemberment Of Belgium
SEYSS-INQUART AS
NEW GAULIETER
BERLIN, May 19 (Reuter.)-The official German news agency states that Hitler has appointed Dr. Seyss-Inquart as the Reich's Commissioner for the occupied Dutch areas.
Hitler has decreed the incorporation of the Belgian regions of Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet in the German Reich.
The official German news
agency says that Dr. Seyas-
Inquart is charged with the task of "maintaining public order and
100,000
public life in the Dutch districts KILLED IN
occupied by German troops."
Supremo Authority
Hitler's direction, "Under Seyss-Inquart will have authority over the Dutch population,
Dr.
supreme civilian
"Bupreme milliary rights will con- military commanders in the Nether- lands, who have the right to order
for necessary measures any execution of military order security.
Linue to be exercised by German
the
and
"The existing laws in the Nether- lands will remain in force as far as compatible with the occupation."
ROTTERDAM
Terrible Toll In German Air Raids
without defenders.
"They have penetrated deeply and spread alarm and confusion in their track.
"Behind them are
GENERAL WEYGAND
Weygand Becomes Military Dictator
NAZIS CLEARED FROM OISE AS MECHANISED UNITS ARE DECIMATED
.
By RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, MAY 19 (UP).—WHILE THE FRENCH ARMIES WERE SUCCESSFULLY HOLDING THE GERMAN LEFT FLANK WHICH YESTERDAY SOUGHT UNSUCCESSFULLY TO PUSH EASTWARDS IN' AN EFFORT TO DRIVE BEHIND THE TRUE MAGINOT LINES, FRENCH TANK CORPS WENT INTO ACTION LAST NIGHT ALONG THE SAMBRE RIVER TO THE OISE CANAL, ON THE HOT PLAINS OF PICRADY.
In a smashing battle of tanks against tanks, the Gorman drive to the west and south-west was complètely checked. NINE MILES REGAINED
In subsequent counter-attacks, which the French were quick to deliver following their initial' success, the French threw the enemy back nine miles, re-capturing Le Cateau and Landreces to hold both banks of the Oise River between
Maubeuge and St. Quen- EARLIER REPORTS tin.
their
Fifty miles from bases of supply the German advance motorised columns were soon in difficulty under
now pouring Appointed Head Of All the intense French counter-
their infantry in lorries and behind! thern again large masses are moving! forward.
"The
re-groupment of the French armies to make a head against, and also to strike at this intruding wedge,
doys.
has been proceeding over several
largely of been They juve nssinted by the magnificent feats of
the R.A.F.
The Allied Forces
attacks and, generally, the
ST. QUENTIN IN GERMAN HANDS
PARIS, May 19 (Reuter).-The latest news received PARIS, May-19-(Reuter). entire German drive was at here shows that the battle betwen the Sambre and Meuse -General Maxime Wey-midnight marking time with Rivers continued all day. gand, former French Chief slight losses of previously
Staff, and lately conquered terrain.
Simultaneously, both the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle British and French were throw- East, has been appointed ing into the counter-attack fresh all divisions which had been spared for such r task by the shorten-
The situation is stated to be confused. Light German units have reached St. Quentin but the French are carrying out many counter-attacks.
OFFENSIVE
Rumours that the Germans. have taken Peronne (west of St. military authorities.
ing of the lines consequent upon "WILL LOSE Quentin) are denied by French
A great strategist, General the strategic retreat out of French are also 里 many points Weygand has been responsible ¿Belgium.
1
the
MOMENTUM
Must Not Be Intimidated "We must not allow ourselves to be intimidated by the presence of Command-in-Chief of
vehicles these armoured
In un-theatres of war. expected places behind our lines.
A War Ministry spokesmon des- If they are behind our Front the
cribed the situation as grave,
"But," he said, "there is no need fighting behind theirs.
for the organisation of the great
76 mm
to regard it as, catastrophle". kics аго In extremely dangerous pasklous and if the French Allied army now in the Middle were used successfully against the
Allies In Position
Fighting Front Described zell East.
Panzer Divisions yesterday, were
LONDON, May 19 (Reuler)-The Army arc well Army and our
along niigned this morning
fighting front now extends from handled, as I believe they will be;
To Stop Nazis Brillant Strategist
the Oise Sambre River 10
Canal,
about Mentmedy, south-cast of Sodan, if the
the French retain that genius for for
war. During the lost
he was where the Germans resumed at dawn for counter-attack and recovery
PARIS, May 19 (Reuter).to the Belgian coast.
The German salient into Franco Marshal Foch's Chief of Staff and their successful drive at the exact which
So long
been they have
of the centre
pocket.
PLEASE Turn To Page 7. Military observers here note British Army proved himself an ideal officer. He famous, and if the
an amazing In the first operation, the Ger- in possesses not only endurance shows that dogged
that as time goes on, the German mashedl by Lanks were
by fighting
of character and initiative.
artillery fire at point blank range, bounds forward, backed Then, through the He served on the Yser, in Artols.
of heavy armoured, columns, will ond during the battle of the Somme. twisted steel and shattered bodies, become steadily less both in He
plan helped to
Allled
the French poured their own_tanks assistance to Italy and took part in the counter-attack there, returning ald Marshal Foch, then Generalissimo
being power of which there have memory and mastery of detall, but
then a sudden transformation of thei PARIS, May 19 (Reuter)-scene might spring into being. According to a communique
Gravity Of The Hour
the
Fan
of
issued by the Dutch Legation "It would be foolish, however, to here to-night, at least 100,000 disguise the gravity of the hour.
"It would be still more foolish to of the Allied armies, in the final year people were killed and one third
After the war was over, he was of the city destroyed when the lost heart and courage or to suppose of the war.
that our well-trained and wellTM Germans bombed Rotterdam. equipped armies, numbering three sent to Poland to assist the Poles who had Two squadrons of German to four millions, could be overcome against the Bolsheviks,
tanks. PLEASE Turn To Page 7. (Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart is the bombers flew over the city In within the space of a few weeks or Austrian Nazi who helped Hitler occupy Austria in. 1030. At the close formation, dropping de- even a few months by a scoop or that ald of mechanised vehicles, however action bombs momentous interview at Berchtesga-layed
The Puppot's Carcer
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den, Hitler told Schuschnigg that he "ploughed a veritable furrow of must make Seyss-Inquart Minister of destruction." the Interior with full charge of the Austrian Polico. When Schuschnigg later resigned, Seyss-Inquart was appointed Chancellor by Hitler, and It
was he who provided the pretext for
obviously on Hiller's instructions-for
formidable.
"We may look forward with con- Adence to the stabilisation of the the general Front In France and 2,000
engagement of the masses will enable a the quaillies of the French and to bo malched British soldiers
of their After passing over the town once, squarely against those
The pounds. were dropped height of 4,500 feet.
bombs, weighing
from
the German Invasion by asking the planes returned and repented the adversaries. German troops "to maintain order" operation again and again,
His Chaneallörship lasted only a few! days for Austria was declared a provitice of Germany and he was made its Governor).
Dante's Inferno
"For myself, I have invincible con- ndence in the French Army and its leaders.
It is only a very small part of that Army that has been heavily Scenes reminiscent of Dante's la- engaged and only a very small part ferno ensued, with fires and ex-of France has yet been invaded. plosions everwhere.
There is good evidence to show
kilometres-one
Denied Fruits Of VictoryTM Houses and buildings, over an area that practically the whole of tho PARIS, May 19 (Reuter)-In the of 15 to 20 square
the enemy have already been thrown northern third of Rotterdam-Were completely specialised and mechanised forces of organised withdrawn in
Into battle. We know that heavy Delgium, Allled forces are reported destroyed.
According to a moderate estiinate, losses have been indicted on them.
to have destroyed all important mill. laty works.
In Zeeland, all military and naval work those at the Important port were destroyed by the Dutch, Including of Fhishing.
الف
Dutch also. destroyed petrol and rerervoirs in the naval dockyards.
at least 100,000 people, must have perished in this "monstrous work A. . of destruction, horrifying nichtmare and absolutely without precodent."
19
(Reuter) : LONDON, May The Dutch contingents now left in Ministers and the Defence Chlofs met Zeeland are continuing to fight at for nearly an hour and a half at No.
10 Downing Street to-day. the side of the Allies.
The Only Way To Mastory "No officer or man, no brigade or divisions which grapples at cload quarters with the enemy wherever encountered can fail to give warthy ontribution to the general results. »
"The mics muss CASE, AWAY the Ides of resisting, the attack behind PLEASE Turn To Pago 7. concrete lines or natural obstacles
GENERAL GAMELIN
Carnage
a to isolate and destroy two column width and depth.
motorised German
infantry "Le Temps" military critic,
The situa- which were closely following. bo- retired general, writes: hind the tanks in open motortion is still acrious but it is to be trucks.
believed that the High Command has check the The German Infantry, no longer the necessary means to
the Oise protected by a vanguard of tanks, new enemy drive plong was simply decimated by the French Valley.
"Rellable indications allow us to 16 perfectly The elimination of these columns think that recovery forced the Germans to
The re-grouping recently from Le Cateau across the Oise Canal and back through Landrecies in the evidently enabled us to give our dis Arst retreat the Germans have made positions the depth which was at first
locking. thus far.
"Reserves must now
withdraw potioned in French communiques |
Polish Tactica The French threw big and little Lanks Into the battle,
Tho
continued
and
cover protect the dangerous penetrations."
Con. Sikorski's Message
LATEST
GREAT RETREAT. ENDS
Allies Evacuate Most Of Belgium
OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
Germans have
PARIS, May 19. (Reuter)-Broad-wrin THE FRENCH FORCES, throughout the same tactics they casting to the Polish nation, General May 10 (UP)Following the strate uset in Poland-tanks preceding Sikorski, the Polish Premier,sald glo withdrawal of the Allied left long columns of infantry carried into that he was speaking at a particu-wing, which has now been completed, la possession of three- Germany battle on rubber tyres.
arly grave moment. Against such # steel wall there is
He added: "We are only in the quarters of Belgian and most of the only one answer-more tanks.
first phase of a great battle which Uelelan sez const. After the French anti-tank mincs may have many varying fortunes. The extent of the Ailled with- had been blown up, destroying in It would be as dangerous to exag-drawal is not disclosed but it has
of German the
on a befantial the significance process scores
local apparently been gerate machines, there were no more mines success as to exaggerate provisional scale withdrawal presents the Ger-
The planted to halt the second wave of
retirement. atlack.
Victory will be, as always, the moans with a large area wilkout op-
"moral
and Alignment Of Stool
result
material position. French tanks and 75 mmm, held superiority. These two factors the
therefore formed solid | Allies both_posštas, alignment of steel, creating a wail
of
"Thus calmly, with resolution and of fire so intense that the Germans steadfast faith; wo must swalt vittory
to penetrate.
wało. „smable
in the struggle. Engngtinents of this nature wern "the"Gerous thingwever wriideosid. by mankind, the great tank to tánk
Aalanche OF Stod1 & Firë
PARIS, MIYU (Kotiter Jimin
Eights taking place without halt for message to the Poilsis nation to-day,
PLEASE Turn To Page 7.
PLEASE Turn To Page 7.
By this withdrawal, the Alites have #pobeded in straightening their lines rum Sedan;to the Belgian coast and PLEASE Turn To Pagó 10.
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