NEW BARON SEVERE THRUSTS
CREATED
Honour For Sir Henry Page Croft
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) Brigadier General Sir Henry Page Croft, Bt, has been created a Baron.
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pulsed, only small detachments crossing and they were captured during the night."
Big infantry and heavy rillery fire against the bridgehead nt Montmedy was repulsed with great enemy losses,
The only German success is the capture of a small blockhouse on one of the most
advanced positions be- Born in 1881, the new baron served In the European War from 1911-18 fore the Maginot Line.
Sunming and was mentioned in despatches and It can be said that all actions car- up. the spokesman said: created A C.M.G. He is the frat
out by the enemy failed despite Bournemouth, led out Baronet, of Knole,
powerful artillery support and sue- created in 1924.
He was Chairman of the Organisa-cessive infantry attacks.
"From Montmedy to the Raine and tion Committee of the Tariff League along the Rhine there is nothing to 1918-17, Chairman of the Executive of the Empire Industries Association report, while in northern Belgium Primrose the Allies continue strategie move- and Chancellor League, 1928-29. A military memberments without serious enemy inter- of the Hertfordshire Territorial Asso clation and Chairman and Managing Director of the Henry Page and Co. Lid. of ho also owns a coffee
Ware plantation in Kenya,
The new baron was recently ep pointed Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office.
the
****ference."
Excelled At Rowing His publications are "The Path of
Empire," (1912) and "Twenty-two Months Under Fire" (1917).
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Thrust Still Strong
PARIS, May 20 (Reuter).-To- night's official communique states that the German thrust fa still very strong! In the region north and wet of St, Quentin.
New enemy attacks have been re-
Pulsed in the Montmedy region.
There is nothing of importance on the rest of the front.
our day.
was great activity of He was a keen sportsman in his aviation in the course of he younger days. Ho excelled a Numerous reconnaissances prepared rowing, being in the Shrewsbury an engagement of bombing famations School eight for three years and on armoured enemy un
units. being captain for two. He also won Heavy bombing was carried out on the school sculling, twice won the the columns, retarding ther_pro- Thames Cup at Henley and rowed gress and inflicting losses on them. three years for Trinity Hall, Cam- bridge.
His heir is Michael Henry Glen- dower Page, born in 1920.
Skating Rink
Now Refugee Centre
London Hears Many
Pitiful Stories
Only 8 Wooks' Training LONDON, May 20 (Reuter), our Infantry column at the Western Front there are soldiers there who have undergone a training of only eight weeks," declared a spokesman of the German High Command in a broadcast to-day,
"Bul." he added, "they lave set their teeth and have managed to do their duty nevertheless."
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Archbishop's Message
Testing Time Of The Nation Has Come
LONDON, May 20 (British Wireless).The Archbishop of Canterbury,
diocezna message, says:
in
1.
"The hour has struck. The time of testing of the nation has come. Each one of us, in his own spirit, must strengthen the spirit of the whole nation, on which the issue of this tremen- dous struggle must finally de
ROME, May 20 (Reuter)-After- | pend. noon papers to-day display stories of alleged German victories under huge
headlines.
"We shall need, each one of us, calmness, courage and self-control, not cost if danger threatens us at The "Piccolo" states that the Gerhome. We shall need, in all the mans are continuing "their triumphal varying fortunes
of war,
resolute LONDON, May 20 (British Wire-rarch towards the Channel. Coast, faith and unswerving determination. less). The Empress Stadium, where whence they will be able to deliver
Keep Calm And Resolute only last week Londoners were en-
serious threat to Britain."
"So I bid you ail, keep calm and Joying ice-skating, has now been con-
Throat To Cambril
resolute in the midst of the struggle, verted into vast centre for Dulch PARIS, May 20 (Reuter)-Up to Be not distressed by disappointments and Belgian refugees.
a tote hour to-day the military situa-or even reverses, and put little trust
ion had undergone, no chunges since Sunday,
Hundreds of these homeless, utterly weary and saddened people-men, women ond children-have been arriving in England since the invasion of their countries.
Important In rumours.
"In spite of the provocation, which A French military spokeman in-will be great, restrain the passions of dleated that the Germans tad made war-righteous Ind!imation is one no further progress except possibly thing, mere clamorous anger is on- The stories they tell of their bur- north-west of the bulge. The threat other. Keep clear before your minds ried evacuation, often bombed and there seems to be aimed at Cambrai. hope of peace which, because it is This is perhaps the crucial sector just, will be lasting had in the final for It is thought that the Germans framing of which all nations shall The whole vast floor of the En-are hoping by this push to cut off have their part."" press Stadium is covered and long the Ailled
Aunned by Nazi airmen, are
tables are set up where the refugees northern in Belgium and
have their meals. Between the huge A French spokesman said to-day tiera of seats, beds have been laid that both the British and French. out and in the ante-rooms complete tanks were in action in this sector. hospital wards have been provided
for the aged and those needing medical attention.,
Sixty LCC workers-look after the refugees.
Curbing Nazis In The Americas
Confused Situation
On the whole, the situation west of
the Sambre_and_Olɛe_Canıl_is_very_ confused.
Tanks on both sides tre inter- mingled in the combat.
Both the Germans and the Allies re making local advances and retire- ment.
are
The Germans are now using molor cycle columns in a way in which NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuler),they have not been employed before. The Argentine and Uruquay Govern- These are sent forward during the
ments have now taken action to curb Nazi activities, according to a Buenos Aires dispatch to the Times."
und
day often withdrawn at night.
Four or five armoured divisions "New York are believed to be employed in this particular sector alone.
The dispatch adds that Chilean and Bolivian newspapers have called upon their governments to do like wise.
They have suffered considerable losses and must be feeling the strain. On the whole, however, they are still states: "pushing forward.
Prematuro Claim
The dispatch also Dealear, the former President of the Argentine, has declared: "There is a well-organised Fifth Column Argentine.'
Quit Egypt,
On Sunday, the German claimed in that they had taken St. Quentin. This seems to have been a premature claim. To-day, they claimed to be beyond St. Quentin and pushing to-
French sources, however, say that there
was heavy fighting cast of Cambral, There is no clear cut Front here.
Advice wards Peronne.
To Americans
CAIRO, May 20 (Reuter),—Tho
However the Germans are 20- United States Legation here has nd- vited all Americans to leave Egypt countering resistance everywhere. while the shipping routes are still open.
-For
German attacks on the Alme River at Montmedy show that they are still trying to widen the bulge southwards
* and break its southern shoulder.
Surprise Raldi Fill Attempts to cross the Ano River Your Stomach's Sake
have only been local surprke attacks When appeilis fails, when you and only one or two units have got have pains in the abdominal' region,|across. heart-burn, flatulence, - bad brenih, On Sunday these were rounded up mandes, an inciiusilon to vomli, kui during the night by the French,
It is indicated in Paris that although give
In this sector the fighting is, compara- tively speaking, small yet would be stablished Important if the enemy points south of the river:
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At· Montmedy - the Germans Dre battering away at a northem out-post of the Maginot Line and particularly
Nazi-Hungary Military Pact Is Reported
TOKYO, May 21 (Router), Germany and Hungary signed a secret military agreement in Berlin an May 14, according to reliable information-received-by-the-"Asahi Shimbun" from Berlin.
The terms of this agreement are td to include:
Kaid
(1) Hungary will permit German troops to pass through Hungary:
(2) Germany will restore to Hun- gary part of Czecho-Slovakia and Yugo-Slavia, and co-operate in the construction of a greater Hungary,
ANGLO-BELGIAN LINES INTACT
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the main railway to the present | German Front.
The Germans depend largely an these rallways for their supplies.
According To Plan SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON,
May 20. (UP).—The | Briush-and-Belgian-forces-are-con- [tinuing to retire to their new lines
according to plan.
Liege and Namur fortresses are still resisting all German attempts to force their capitulation.
The official German report of the operationa ta admitted that the resistance by the Belgium yesterday Belgians had been "valiant."
FLANK ATTACKS
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Bionded by highly skilled European at Montmedy bridge-head where chemists, and requiring the addition strong infantry attacks are supported only of boiling water, Golden Griffin by heavy artillery are. Biomach Tea la scientifically pre- All the attacks have been repulsed gun. Each of the seven Frenchmen
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at 3 p.m. on the previous day. When at Peronne is no The position clear. It is not known, whether the mulls are advertised to close after town has been fully occupied by 5 pm. Registered and Farcel mails
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SWEDEN DENIES NAZI DEMANDS
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and ordered a mis exodus.
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STOCKHOLM, May 20 (Reuter) --- A report that Germany had presented far-reaching demande to Sweden, in-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, May 20 (UP) ~~ll is cluding the right to transport men, munitions and equipment across officially announced that all aliens in died at his post. parod, pleasant remedy for digestive with heavy losses. The Germans
Sweden to Narvik, is stated to be the British Isles will henceforth be trouble..
Pressure Turni have only taken one #mall block
unfounded by the Swedish, Foreign prohibited from possessing firearms, Packed in two sizes, sold si 30.75 house and one of the most advanced itself has now deanitely turned from German pressure within the pocket
Police authorium are talking the and $2.00, the large containing positions in front of the Line.
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most drastic precautions in the -times-as-much-fen-s-the-smaller -South-of-Montmedy-there-is--still the south towards Paris towards the
___SPECIAL_TO THE WATELEGRAPH!!... Thames estuary to prevent the In- nothing to report.
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STOCKHOLM, May 20, (UP)filtration of German "Afth colum- now apparently being Amiens, Arras and thence on to Unimpeachable Swedish Informantnists" who may seek to enter the Calals, Dunkerque and the Channel state that Germany has presented far- country on Dutch ships.
reaching demands to Sweden, includ- Military and CID. patrols comb avery ship and several men have al- The main force of the Germaning the right to transport men,
munitions and equipment across ready been detained. Crews Army is still only thirty miles Inside the French frontier, and the furthest German at Narvik.
northern Sweden to reinforce the Dutch ships are not permitted ashore, polat to which light réconnals- sance mechanised troops have pene trated is but sixty miles.
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The report is denied by the Ger ROME, May 20 (Reuter)-Marshalman Propaganda Ministry. Badoglio to-day personally reported No confirmation is obtainable in to Signor Mussolini on the inspection London. This is interpreted in some quar-which he has made of Italy's western ters as an easing of the tuation. frontier.
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The Italian Ministry of Education. to-day issued a decree ordering all schools to be closed as from May 31. Schools usually remain open until June 30,
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