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MONDAY, MAY 20, 1940.
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NAZIS ON DEFENSIVE
HISTORIC BATTLE OF THE TANKS IN OISE VALLEY ENDS IN FRENCH VICTORY: LE CATEAU RE-CAPTURED
GREAT COUNTER-ATTACK BY ALLIES DEVELOPS: IMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
By MILES HANDLER
(UNITED PRESS Staff CORRESPONDENT)
PARIS, MAY 20 (UP).—THE GREAT ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACK AGAINST THE POSITIONS GAINED BY THE GERMANS IN THEIR INITIAL SUCCESS IS NOW. IN FULL SWING ALONG THE ENTIRE FRONT, AND THE GERMANS ARE EVERYWHERE ON THE DEFENSIVE. The French forces are attacking in the St., Quentin sector, scene of the great battles which cost the Germans the war in 1918, with all the forces at their disposal. NAZIS. STONE-WALLED
GENERAL WEYGAND
Weygand
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 completely checked. NINE MILES REGAINED'.
In subsequent counter-attacks, which the French were quiek to
The only attack of any magnitude launched by the Germans is in Becomes deliver following their initial success, the French threw the enemy buck
the Malmedy sector, where the invaders have been trying fruitlessly for 96 hours to break the French lines in an effort to flank the Maginot Line.
Hitler Orders Dismemberment Of Belgium
SEYSS-INQUART AS
NEW GAULIETER
But, despite the terrilic nature of their attack, the Germans here, as elsewhere, are stone-walled.
General Weygand. the new Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces, has already taken control of the Allies'. destinies
Military
Dictator
and it is certain that, under his Appointed Head Of All
The Allied Forces leadership, the Allied effort for the rest of the war will be offen- newssive-and-not defensive.
BERLIN, May 19 (Reuter.)-The official German agency states that Hiller has appointed Dr. Seyss-Inquart as the Reich's Commissioner for the occupied Dutch areas.
Hitler hos decreed the incorporation of the Belgian regions of Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet in the German Reich,
The official
German nows agency says that Dr. Seyss- Inquart is charged with the task of "maintaining public order and public life in the Dutch districts occupied by German troops."
Dr.
Supreme Authority **Under
Hitler's direction; Seyss-Inquart will have supreme the Dutch civilian authority over
Home military rights will con-
military commanders in the Nether- lands, who have the right to order the necessary for measures any execution of military order
security.
and
The existing laws in the Nether- lands will remain in fores as far as compatible with the occupation.",
100,000 KILLED IN ROTTERDAM
Terrible Toll In German Air Raids
PARIS, May 19 (Reuter).—
a communique! According to issued by the Dutch Legation
nine miles, re-capturing Le Cateau and Landreces to hold both banks of the Oise River between
Maubeuge and St. Quen- PERFECT RETREAT
tin.
their
FROM BELGIUM
By RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED PRCES WAR CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, May 20. (UP)— the great Battle of the Tanks nears its decisive climax this morning, the official French analyst of the military informations told me:
Fifty miles from bases of supply-the-German- advance motorised columns were soon in difficulty under the intense French counter- ~PARIS, May-19 (Reuter), attacks and, generally, the General Weygand WHI
Maxime Wey entire German drive was at As un-General doubtedly launch A plan of bold Initiative in contrast with the ex-gand, former French Chief midnight marking time with treme caution of General Gamelin.
of Staff, and lately slight losses of previously The great French success in the Alsne and the Oise, which led to the Commander-in-Chief of the conquered terrain.
"The situation has lost none of its gravity. Simultaneously, both the recapture of La Cateau and the Allied Forces in the Middle
take advantage of the "But the Allies have been able to clearing of the Germans from both
East, has been appointed British and French wore throw- sides of the Oise, is regarded as
alling into the counter-attack fresh pause in the German advance to regroup the units which were happy omen, for it constilates the Command-in-Chief of
divisions which had heen spared scattered by the speed and severe impact of the German drive.
"It can now be considered that first time since 1tler came to power that a German army, has been forced theatres of war.
the effect that has lasted for into headlong retreat.
three days completely to sur- round the German pocket 'has been successfully completed.
marks
Tank Attack's
an
In the first operation, the Ger
тусте tanks
smashed by artillery fire at point blank range.
man
BATTLE FOR AIR SUPREMACY
Dramatic Phase Of West Front Fighting LONDON, May 19 (Reuter) Then, through the carnage of-Every report of last week's twisted steel and shattered bodies, fighting in France and the Low- the French poured their own lanks lands has spoken of the im- to isolate and destroy two columus
Perfect Retreat
"At the same time the Allies have, completed their strategic retreat. through Belgium, which although presenting the Germans with a large tract of Belglan territory hos had the Balfent caused effect of reducing by the German driver!
The retreat of the Allled left wing.
from Belgium appears to have been perfectly executed and the Allied
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A great strategist, General for such a task by the shorten- Weygand has been responsible ing of the lines consequent upon for the organisation of the great the strategic retreat out of Furious lighting is now taking Allied army now in the Middle Belgium.
French, 75 mm feld guns, which place between Landrecies and Afere, where the French are still East.
were used successfully against the Panzer Divisions yesterday, were Brilliant Strategist pressing the Germans alrongly.
this morning aligned
along the Wave after wave of tank aflseks?
During the last war, he was
Olse Canal, have been delivered by the Ger-
anras in to Olse
Canal Terion, Marshal Foch's Chief of Staff and Sombre River to the where the Nazi High Command is proved himself an ideal officer. He where the Germans resumed at dawn amazing their successful drive at the exact attempting to regain the territory possessee, not only
memory and mastery of detail, but centre of the pocket. Tost yesterday. Each wave of German attack is strength of character and iniative.
He served on the Yser, in Artols here to-night, at least 100,000 being met by French mechanised
Ho
the Allied plan people were killed and one third counter attacks and artillery barrages and during the battle of the Somme.
helped to of the city destroyed when the on a really colossal scale. Germans bombed Rotterdam. The fighting in the sector is de-assistance to Italy and took part in the counter-attack there, returning to The Puppet's Caroor
aid Marshal Foch, then Generalissimo
of German motorised infantry portance of air power..on land Two aquadrons of German scribed by the spokesman as being a
"continuous and furious melee."
which were closely following bo-operations, comments an alr (Dr. Arthur Seyes-Inquart is tha
The Germans are completely at a of the Allied armies, in the feal your
hind the tanke in open malor observer. and Rethel of the war. Austrian Nazi who helped Hitler to bombers flew over the city in
At the close formation, dropping de- standstill in the Sedan
After the war was over, he was
trucks. occupy Austria in 1838.
action bombs
No one knivs better than the man that sectors.
added: "The sent to Poland to assist the Poles
The German infantry, no longer momentous interview at Berchtesga- layed
The spokesman
against the Bolsheviks, who, lind den, Hiller told Schuschnigg that he "ploughed a veritable furrow of
Allies are continuing their strategle almost reached the gates of Warsaw. protected by a vanguard of tanks, in the air of the aid that can he of must make Seyss-Inquart Minister c
His counter-stroke, delivered in was simply decimated by the French giver to the man on the ground.
The Germans have been using their the Interior with full charge of the destruction."
The bombs, weighing 2,000 retirement from Belgium."
August, 1020, Is. regarded by many tanks.
The elimination of these columns air power to an extent never visun- German Claims A dropped from pounds, wero
experts as a finer example of general- height of 4,500 feet.
Meanwhile, German High Com-ship than almost any given during the forced the Germans to withdraw lised before. They are seeking to from Le Catenus across the Oise Canal muffle their troops with bombs while
NEW YORK, May 20-(Domel) and back through Landrecles in the launching fighters at our bombers.
Reports on the military developments - mand communiques still issue fan-World War, tastic claims, most of which are dis-
Completed Maginot Lino first retreat the Germans have made
Tho Naxi Technique
in northern France: say that the proved by the fact that neutral cor-
In 1023, he was sent to Syria as thus far.
While it is not certain whether the French have rushed one thousand respondents are telegraphing de
Pollah Tactics
Nazi air force la bigger than spatches from towns claimed by the High Commissioner, and there by him
the 3-inch guns to the Meuse, salient to The French firm and tactful, adralnistration he
the battle. Scenes reminiscent of Danie's In-Germans to be. In their hands.
Clermons have continued during the week, to concentrate many the German Army which form the ferno entied, with fires and ex-
Nazi vanguardi is now only 07 miles
In 1031 he was appointed War throughout the same tactics they superior forces at a point in the spearhead of the German mechanised Presklent of the -plosions-everwhero,
where the mala battle attacks.. Sedan region.. in Poland tanks-preceding Houses and buildings over an area from Patik.“
of The Germans, apparently unaware Council
occurred. kilometres-one
long columns of Infantry carried into of 15 to 20
The British and French aircraft Lyres,
for numbers third of Rotterdam-were completely of the strategic Allled retreat from being the President of the Republic) lothi
Belgien, claim to be "advancing and Inspector-General of the Altoy battle on rubber we will there is crows always had
of which he was Against such a destroyed,
rapidly" in the Lowlands
a post, by virtuo
facing them.uperior nin
Every movement on the ground, ho German forces operating from Hoi-Commander-in-Chief. A year later only one answer-more tanks.
After the French anti-tank mines
up with air force land have crossed the River Scheldt a Ministry of Defence was crab-
SINGAPORE, May 20 (UF)-Ro- became head had been blown up, destroying in said, was linked
German fallurea or successes. It was worth of and have reached the Denber-Monde llshed and Weygand
process scores of the combined land, air and sea the forcas. During his term in that post machines, there were no more mines noting that the French air force ports from Batavia state that Callant Liego And Nomur No mention is made in the Ger- the Maginot Line was completed.planted to halt the second wave of works as closely with the RAF, asExpeditionary Legion has been des
Ho retired from the post in Janu-attack. comunique of Liege de Namur, where the herole Belgian ary 1030, and was succeeded by garrisons are still holding ost after General Gomelin... ten days of continuous pounding,"
Austrian Police. When Schuschnigg later resigned, Seyss-Inquart war appointed Chancellor by Hitler, and it was he who provided the pretext for: the German invasion by asking- obviously on Hitler's Instructions for operation again and again, German troops to maintain order." His Chancellorship lasted only a few days, for Austria was declared a province of Germany and he was mado Ra Governor)...
After passing over the town once, the planes returned and repeated the
Denied Fruits Of Victory PARIS, May 19 (Router)-In the organised withdrawal in northern Belgium, Allfed forces are reported to have destroyed all important mili tury works.
In Zeeland, all military and naval works were destroyed by the Dutch, including those at the Important port of Flushing."-
The Dutch
also destroyed all
petrol and reservoirs in the naval
dockyards.
The Dutch contingents now loft in
Zeeland are continuing to fight at
the side of the Allies,
Dante's Inforno
According to a moderate estimato, at least. 100,000 people must have perished in this monstrous work of destruction, herlying 14 nightmare and absolutely without precedent
BELGIAN - ROYAL FAMILY MOVES
!
1,000 GUNS IN ACTION
One German claim states that the till further enhanced his reputation. /tanks into throw big and Bttle Ailled air forces or not, it was able, i combat the 30 arict 78. ton tanks of
sector.
F
Strongly Anti-Nasi:,
The Nal communique claims to General Weygand is a strong op PARIE, May 19 (Reuter) It is have captured a total of 110,000 ponent of any rapprochement with reported from Hayre that the Alled proDeTer Belgian Royal family will shortly (The Lapin And Dukh Armies Germany. He is also said to be one Him LONDON, May 10 (Router) arrive at Saints Addrese, a zuburb totalled 1,000,000 men. If the Ger of the very low French gefiereld who
really understand Englishmen. Ministers and the Delente Chiefs met of Havre, which was officially the mans claim only 110.000 prisoners melancholy and apparent dindence for nearly an hour and a half at No. Belgian capital during this greater almost all of the Belgian Army, at
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part of the last war.
least, mut be intact-Ed.)
do the two armies on the ground,
A complete picture cannot be drawn Alignment Of Stool
for some time to come of this hur French: tanks and 75 mm. Dela ricane speed war. But certain in-
therefore formed a solid ferences can be drawn, alignment of steel, creating wall
of Bre sa intense that the Germsus, wero able to penetrain, re
Engagements of this nature were the Bercoat thing over with by mankind, the great lank to tank nights taking place without halt for
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Allied Casualtiso} During the day we liave kept up the bombing of Cadimin trämps Spoil i tions, and communications. This haa caused ur coualties. We have not as PLEASE Turn To Pari 2.
VOLUNTEERS FROM D.EL.
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patch from the Dutch East Indies for Europe.
Hundreds ot volunteers have joined the Légion, a step hitherto not permitted because it would weaken the defence of the Indier,
First.nld lessons have replaced : German lessons in the schools, de