AMERICAN MASTERY CAN
SUPPORT Opinion Begins To Swing-Over
NEW YORK, May 19 (Reu- ter)A vigorous controversy is arising, over the question of giving all possible immediate support to the Allies.
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and most realise that mastery can anly bo regained by furlous and un- relenting masuk
only
"And this spirit must not animate the High Command but must
every fighting man.. Inspire
"In the air, even al serious odds er at odds which up to now have overwhelming, we have
Inpect thang down three or four
Indicating a big swing-over opposition opinion, the "New York been
our own and the re-
Times reports that 50 Republican live balance of the British and Ger- leaders from the middle and western states
fold Mr. Robert Taft, the man Air Forces has now become con- Republican Presidential candidate, sklerably more favourable to us than German that if he submitted to a popular vote at the beginning of the war. in their regions
tions a proposal for direct "la cutting down the
are ghung our own aid to the Allies short of entry into bambers wo
battles as well as those of France. the war, it would be passed by deelded majority.
Ability To Baat Nazi Air Force
On the other hand, torne prominent Americans still express strong isola- tionist views,
ST. QUENTIN IN GERMAN HANDS
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starts north of Montmedy and runs like a blunt spear-head towards Parls.
is
The point of this spear-head near Lion, which is 75 alles north- east of Paris.
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"My confidence in our ability fight it out to a finish with the Ger- man Air Force has been strengthened by the fierce encounters which have taken place and are taking place.
"At the same time our heavy bombers are striking at the root of
the German mechanised power rd
have already infileted serious damage upon oil refineries upon which the Nazi effort to dominate the world directly depends.
"We must expect that as 600on as stability has been reached on the Western Front, the bulk of that force which rashed Holland Into ruin and smoke in a few days will be turned upon us,
"I am sure speak for all when I
On the southern edge of the spearsay that we are ready to face it and head, the fighting on Saturday was unimportant.
Although the Germans have made some attacks the French have also been engaged in loent action and in re-taklu several villages.
The northern edge, of the
speare head towards the Belgium frontier runs roughly parallel with Sambre River,
The Germans say that they have crossed the Sambre and have taken Le Caleau and Son Quentin.
A French Army spøkeaman says that the area of the main battle is 10 miles east of these two towns.
Terrific Naxi Louer
The Germans used both heavy and light tanks and alreraft guns in this battle but strong French resistance caused them heavy, losses,
At one point the German dead are said to have formel a well five feet high.
Over this wall the German tanks pursued their way.
The drive toward San Quentin was made by a light mechanised detach- ment of the type usually used scouting.
for
It is not very large and not very strong.
Forts Holding Out
So far, the Sambre River has formed the northern edge of the spear-head and the French have been holding out at the forts of Maubeuge. A French spokesman says that the position is uncertain in Maubeuge itself but fighting is going_on_to_the west of the forts.
The movement west-north across the Sambre Valley may mean that the German drive has been diverted
stranically
endure it and to retaliate against it to any extent that the unwritten laws of war permit.
Britain The Next Victim "There wilt he many men and women in this island who, when the ordeal comes upon them, as come fi will, will feel comfort and even pride that they are sharing the perils of our lads at the front-soldiers, sallors and airmen, God Bless Them!-and are drawing away from them part at least of the onslaught they have to hear.
"Is not this the appointed time for all to make the utmost exertion in their power?
"If the battle is to be won we must
provide our men with the ever in- creasing quantiles of weapons and ammunition they need,
"We must have, and have quick- ly, more planes, lanks, shells and Kunsthere is need for these viial munitions.
Monday,
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SPLENDID ACTIONS
Nazis Harassed By British Bombers
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter). -The Air Ministry announces that a formation of our bomber aircraft carried out extensive in Belgium and operations France with the object of harassing the lines of communi- cation of the German advance and to relieve the pressure on the Allled armies.
Our fighter aircraft, patrolling in their support, have accounted for a large number of enemy aircraft of all types.
From preliminary reports received relating to a part only of our fighter least activities, it is known that 20 enemy aircraft were shot down.
Harassing operations were tinued during the night by heavy bomber formations,
GERMANS IN RETREAT
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May 20, 1940.
A Look Throat:li
The
“Telegraph“
May I 1800.
48 hours in the Olse Valley and
50 YEARS AGO between the Aime and the Somme.
Overhead, the sky was black Count Crispt stated in the Chamber with bombers, which played ani that complete accord exiață batween; Eng- important secondary role in suppert ind, Austria, and Italy to present my rising in the Balkan menacing the of the rival tank armies.
peace of Europe. Ho also declared that Nowhere in history or on battle- A complete agreement had, been come to that eld has there ever been a more between England and flaly," and field
this nothing can be done without the can- punishing battle fought than
currence of England." tank battle of the Olse Valley, upon cara, the whole German les may probably turn. At the very least,
to-day's successful barring of the passage to the German tank columns by the French han elves the Allies time to re-align their forces,
Foodless, Stoopless For Wook
Prominent Engilah eltizens of Montreal claim that the English speaking popula tion of that city is not diminishing, but on the contrary is increasing and holding is own with the French.
It has been discovered that with the new English magazine rifle the first shot almost always goes wide, and it is alleged that the soldiers bellove that it will not shoot well unless the frer breather sharply down the barrel three or tour
25 YEARS AGO
Both armies have been fighting forumes before wing it.. more than a week in which time they con-have had practically no sleep and al- most no food. Yet therolare no sign of fatigue as the two armies meet in one of the first frontal engagements of the war.
In southern Belgium, bridges were hit, troop concentrations broken up and roads blocked..
Raids On Germany Simultaneously other formations of night bombers benetrated ints. Ger- maur where direct his were made on oll fuel tanks in Hanover.
an
At other points, railway junctions
alding
suffered considerablo damage,
All hight a continuous watch was kept on military traße over a wide arca in western Germany and offensive action was taken against enemy movements.
and
road communications Ra
attacked. were
At one point, a heavy explosion was caused,
At another, aerodrome buildings were set on fire.
Night Operations, Hudson aircraft also carried
out successful night operallons. They fuel caused further damage to oil tanks in Hamburg and Bremen.
Two Blenheim aircraft, patrolling off the Dutch coast, encountered formation of three Heinkel 111's and three Messerschmitt 110's.
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They immediately attacked and shot down two Messerschmitts.
An Air Ministry bulletin sigles that during offensive patrols by our Air Force fighters over France and Belgium yesterday, one patrol of five Hurricanes shot down at least three and probably alx German Heinkel 111's tear Brussels,
A second and larger patrol encoun- tered only two enemy aircraft, one of which, a Heinkel 111, is believed to have been shot down.
Oil Dumps Destroyed LONDON, May 10 (Reuter)-De- talls of air force operations on Friday night show that the area of the raids extended from Hamburg in the north to Sedan in the south.
Must Win The War "They increase our strength against the powerfully arined enemy and re- place wastage of abstinate struggle and the knowledge that the wastage will be speedily replaced enables us to draw more readily upon reserves and throw them in now when every thing means so much.
"Our task is no ̄enly-to-win-the-Hamburg. —— battle but to win the war.
Enery acrodromes, troop columns, "After
this battle in France and road and rail junctions
bombed. abales, its forces there will come __to_battle-for-our-kland,for-all that Britain is and All that Britain
mcana.
"That will be the struggle. "In that supreme emergency we
the most drastic, to call for the
In an attempt to envelop the Allied | shall not hesitate to take every step, troops in
have been with-. drawing
This morning, British-General Headquarters announced that the British front on Saturday had held firmly in the fuce of strong enemy pressure.'
even effort of which they are capable.
Interest-of-property-and-hours of labour are nothing compared to the struggle for life and honour, for life and freedom to which we have vow- ed ourselves.
Extensive damage was done to German oil depots in Bremen and
were
More than 300 bombs were dropped on cil depots in Bremen. A direct hit on a large petral storage tank resulted in a terrific explosion, from which vast sheets of flame shot up to a height of nearly 2,000 feet, and a
smail Rifes, machine-guns and unti-tank artillery are helpless against the German wall of tanks because the Germans put big tanks in front and alongside small tanks.
When 400 such monsters line up they are immune to orderly attack,
They have cover 12 to 20 milles per hour, spliting deadly Bro on all aldes.
It took a combination of French successfully tunts and field cuas break up the Germans steel wedges, and German motorised infantry which followed the tanks into battle were annihilated with heavy losses, The Allied air forces flew
con-
tinuously during 17 hours of daylight to-day and did enormous damage to the German rear.
com~
Pontoon bridges across the Meuse, which are the Germans vital munications system, were attacked by dive bombers and at least eleven such bridges were destroyed."
To-night the German pocket on French soll was a kidney shaped 40 sack about 30 miles, deep and miles wide along the general line from Maubeuge to Landrecies, to to to Rethel Gulse, to Vervins, Raucout and along to Bedan,
Franch Advantage
should Theoretically, the French have a tremendous advantage of much better communications.
The Germans are obliged to make long haul through Belghum inasmuch as not one main road traverses the Ardennes directly in the rear of the
There German pocket,
aro only secondary rouds and they were quickly chopped to pleces by tanks and heavy trucks:
The Germans have bech unable to move cast of Sedan, where the ter rain is still protected by the Maginot line, so they are unable to usc good roads across Luxembourg.
the
Their main line of communica- tions follows the Meus"river"from Manstricht past Liege, Namur and Dinant to Mezieres, but as long as and the Belgian forts at Liege Numur hold out these roads are kept under intense fre.
pall of smoke like a "huge black OFFENSIVE WILL
mushroom" spread over the town.
Hamburg all depots were bombed LOSE MOMENTUM
from 10 p.m. on Friday til dawn on Saturday. In the tourse of these attacks, the explosion of a salvo of heavy bombs was followed by terrillo push of flame and an out-
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Gorman Claim
Sacred Plodges DERLIN, May 10 (Reuter),An "I received from the chiefs of the attack by Allied armoured cars French Republic and particularly south-west of Brussels last night was from the indomitable Prime Minister,
Other petroleum depots in the area. some of which were first located by repulsed, according quorters quoted by the offelal news pledges that whatever happens they tacked with equally evident result. agency,
will fight to the end, be it bitter or Fires started
with
incendiary fire. It claimed that 20 armoured cars be it glorious-ay, we fight to bombs were seen to spread rapidly were destroyed during the operation on end it can only be glorious. and helped to guide the following air- and it is stated that anti-aircraft
"Having received His Majesty's craft to complete the destruction of their countries and Empires,
burst of fire that was visible from General Sikorski said that the battle as far away as Cuxhaven.
for which they had been waiting was now being fought in Belgium and
to competent { M. Paul Heynaud, the most sacred the old of parachute flares, were at partly on French territory.
artillery was used against the arm-Con, I have formed an Ad- the TILLERS.
oured cars.
GEN. WEYGAND ARMY DICTATOR
FROM PAGE ONE
The Allied armies, he said, were opposing an avalanche of steel and Behind them were the wealth of What struck him more than any- deep thing else, however, was the sense of patriotism they have.
This was only the Erst phase of a great battle which would fluctuate
of mm and women of
Clouds Of Smake every Party and almost every point of view.
Vart clouds of acrid black smoke, certain proof of the all-fed character "We have differed and quarrel of the raging fires, were rolling slow. led in the past, but now one bond ly over the area, as the last of the one way or another. It would be
unites us all is wage war until victory is won and never to sur- render ourselves to servitude and shame at whatever cost and ageny It may be.
"If this is one of the most awe- almost reached the gates of Warsaw. striking periods in the long history His counter-stroke, dolivered in of France and Britain it is also be- August, 1920, is regarded by tranyyond doubt the most sublime.
ship then almost any given during the their World War.
as erroneous to exaggerate the signi ralders left Hamburg.
ficance of local success as it would Other sections of the large bombing be to exaggerate that of provisional force were meanwhile attacking retirement. enemy aerodromes and lines of com- munication over a wide area.
Heavy damage was done to road and rali bridges across the Meuse and In the occupied arens In Belgium and France. experts as a dner example of general- "Side by side, unaided except by No casaultles were incurred by the kith and kin the great British bomber crewn and all aircraft Dominions
and by the wide empires engaged In the night's extensive which rest beneath thele shield, side operations returned safely, Completed Maginot Lino by side the British and French people In 1923, he was sent to Syria as have advanced to rescue not only High Commissioner, and there by his Europe but mankind from the foulest Arm and tactful administration he and most soul destroying tyranny still further enhanced his reputation that has ever darkened the stained
In 1931 he
was appointed Vier- President
Wer Pages of history, Council at France (the President
-of the Supreme
The Massage Of Trinity "Behind them, behind us orid be-
being the President of the Republic) bind the armies and fleets of Britain and Inspector-General of the Army,
a post by virtue of which he was and France gather a group of shat- Commander-in-Chief, A year Inter tered states and bludgeoned races
a Ministry of Defence was estab- the Czechs,
Anti-British Press Attacks
Japanese Sponsor New Movement
Palcs, Norwegians, PEIPING, May 19 (Reuter) .-- lished and Weygand became head Danes, Dutch and Belgians-upon all Virulent attacks on Britain continue of the combined land, air and sea of whom the long night of barbarism to be made by Jocal Chinese Press.
will descend, unbroken even by the
Strongly Anti-Nazi
Centurie
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an order was given by
Amillary for a week's
Petain's Return Welcomed
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May 18, 1915. Hauter's correspondent at Rome anya that the majority of Italiante consider that immediate war la now inevitable, and it must be remembered that the king re- fused to accept Bignor Salandra's
nation, "For the sake of God and our realined Country." When the alanın
offered ridiculously that Austris
concessions, and that the adequate Triplice had been denounced, they ro
Indignantly against Signor Giolitt manoeuvres; which showed that the King, had unmistakably military aspira- ttoni None doubted that the King. Whose heart beats in unison with the people, will fall to meet the wishes of file subjects.
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A Zeppelin airshilp dropped, about 40 bombs an Ramsgate al two o'clock this morning. Wares people were inturel,
10 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1030. Twenty-seven European Governments yesterday received coples of the memo randum on the scheme outlined by the
which is loosely known as the United French Foreign Minister. M. Briand, Btates of Europe.
5 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1915. The caskut bearing the body of Mar. hal Joseph Pilsudski, Poland's warrior hero and late dictator, was borne out of Warmw lo-day aboard a special train and to the place of internment at Cracow.
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It is notified in the "Gazette" that I Excelloney the Governor, under instrue llons received from the Secretary of Stato for the Colonies, has made the following appointment:
Mr. G. R. Sayer to be a Cadet Officer Class I, with effect from August 11, 1934.
Me Walter Schfeld to be a Cadet Officer Class I, with effect from October 24. 1034.
Mr. A. A, C, Taylor to be Chief Ac countant, Kowloon Canton Railway, with effect from February 2, 1935
Mr. T. H King to be Inspector General of Police, with effect from April 9, 1933.
Nine members of the Parliamentary Labour Party have tabled a motion in the House of Commons urging the Government to bring to the notice of the German Government the feeling of re- pugnance caused by the mass terror now prevailing in -Germany, and inviting_lhe Government to inform the, German Gov- ernment that thils_condition of affairs has An unfortunate inbuence upon the cordial
exist between relations which it is desirable, should Germany and Great Britain,
TENSION RELAXES
Improved Situation In Mediterranean.
BELGRADE, May 19 (Reu-
ter) Political circles here are
much relieved at what is regard. ed here as a relaxation of the tension in the Mediterranean.
In well-informed quarters it is reported that the recent Yugo elav trade delegation to Moscow was told that the Soviet is interested in maintaining peace'" in the Balkans but does not offer military support.
This is interpreted as meaning that the Soviet does not fear Italian aggression in the Balkans.
TURKEY'S LEADERS PARLEY
ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuter),-It is reported from Ankara that Pre- sident Incunu called a Council of Ministers at the Presidency and had a long conversation with M. Renk ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuter) Baydam, the Prime Minister, and The entry of Marshal Petain into the Marshal Tchakmak, Chief of General French Cabinet is cordially welcomed Elaf, before the latter's departure in the Turkish Press, which recalls for Beirut. hla famous order at Verdun.
The Turkish Press is also generally of the opinion that the halting of the
offensive present German
would mean the end of the "biltzkrieg"
It is declared that the Nazi regime cannot survive the slightest defeat.
Indian Currency Conservation
Indian
Marshal Tchakmak is heading an important military mission to Beirut. It is reported that owing to the International situation, the National Assembly has decided to forogo its usual summer recess from June to November and will continue meeting es ugual.
10,000 CHILDREN EVACUATED
forced. During bis ferm in that post star of hope, unies we conquer, as the
LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)-Ten the Maginot Line was completed. Fir
SIMLA May 18 (Reuter)The thousand children were transferred "He retired from the post in Janu-conquer we must and as conquer we campaign against Britain-in-the-Press, Government is introducing restricto by from cast-and-south-const ary, 1880, and was succeeded by
shall.
The Japanese- controlled Central tions' on certain imports similar La Trinity
to towns to new reception areas. Sunday. Broadcasting Station yesterday spon- those enforced in other parts of the General Gomelin, r. 19 10 gr.
The children travelled in 20 special Keo wards were wriifensored anti-British speech.
British Empire In order to conserve through trains and each carried hand to be a call and a spur to the faith- servants of truth and Justice: "Gird ́yangwelve and beye men of valour and le 'in readinces for the conflict, for it is better for us to pertali in balile than to look upon the outrags of our nailon and altars. As the will of God is in heaven avem so Isi silny do!!
General Weygand is a strong op ponent of any · rapprochement -- with | Germany, He, is ükso 'asid to be ang of the very low French generals who really understand Englishmen. HIA melancholy and appartat dimdente! conceal a master mind which works with great rapluity.
This the man who has been selected to take charge in the pre- sent theatres of war.
JERUSALEM Max. In (Router) on A contingent of the Second Austra Han Imperial Forer arrived in Fales tine this morning it the conclusion of
·'à2 10,000 miles journoy,
Commoni Statoment LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)The Prime Minister Le expected to make
statement on the latest develop ments on the Western Front when the LOHIE of Common reassembles an May 21.9
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is likely that, a similar alate ment will be male In the House of
Lords.
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