Continuous Raids On Naxi Supply Dumps
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BATTLE OF
STIRRING FEATS THE BULGE
BY THE R.A.F.
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By Eyewitness · LONDON, May 20 (Reuter). "Reuter's" speclat correspon
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)The Air Ministry announces that the bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. main-dent with the B.E.F. writes:
· “Along the leafy lanes of tained pressure on the enemy lines of communication last France across carefully cultivat night.
ed countryside, the battle of the bulge still rages,
Oil refineries in north-west Germany have also been successfully attacked.
South of Brussels, operations have been carried out against rallway stations and bridges.
The railway, bridge at Roux sustained a direct hit. Damage was done to rolling stock and the permanent way. Troops and tank concentrations were attacked in the Aisne
sector.
Near Sedan a lorry park was set on fire. From all these operations,, '*********
involving a large number of
R.A.F. bombers, only two falted
to return despite intense enomy
anti-aircraft fire,
Aorodrome Bombed
Tho nerodrome at Vernes, north of sticcessfully Trondhelm, was also attacked last night.
A large number of enemy aircraft there were reputedly bombed, w machine-gunned by relays of Hudson aircraft.
Much damage is believed to have been done and seven Ares were started.
All day long our fighter aircraft have been called upon to engage with the superior forces of the enemy, to drive off formations of bombers which continually arns the Alled troops and to attack their. fighter escorts.
After almost every engagement they return after having inleted heavy losses on the enemy. Then they im- mediately take off nguin to fenew the struggle.
One Against Four Thus, in patrols over France and Helgium yesterday, one squadron
on
of Hurricanes sighted over 100 enemy aircraft. In a series of com- bats they disposed of 11, chaht of which were enemy fighters.
One young pilot, who took
afler the four Heukel 111's one other,
destroyed three of them, Reports which have been received up to now. confirm that 30 enemy aircraft were destroyed by RAF, aircraft
and many others yesterday were heavily damaged.
Victories against such odds are not wen without loss and 14 of our fighters are missing.
Wock-End Raids LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)---It is authoritatively learned that fighters and bombers at one RAF. group fought their way through waves of German bombers on Saturday Sunday.
and
Rousing Call
To Duty
Morrison's Appeal To Workers
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter). "If we waste a minute at our *desk or bench we sacrifice a life," declared. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply, to-day in a rousing call to the members of his Ministry and all men and women working on the production of armoments.
every
"I appeal to you in the name of our country, and person you hold most dear, to give of your very utmost," he added.
"Everything that I can do to extend the scope of the arma drive and enable you to work to the utmost advantage 1 will do. And I will try to do & In the spirit I commend to yoυ--- the spirit of duty, determina- tion and comradeship. Work at war speed," he concluded.
"German heavy columns, lad by tanks and shepherded by a vast fan of bomber formations like a flock of birds, are striking westward in a tremendous effort to onlarge the breach in the original Allied line.
Doods Of Heroism "In their path deeds of heroism of a high order are an hourly occur-
rence.
"British armoured vehicles from the north and French from the south charge into the invaders' flanks, while French formations challenge them in front.
"Farm
Carts, motor-cars and torries turned on their aides, tree trunks, rallway trucks and any other kind of obstacle were used to barri- cade the roads,
Ant-lank runs
are rushed into position: fighting vehicles are sent speeding to the battle zone:, troops have rushed to all the gaps. All the time. shipa Его disgorging fresh troops from England and lorries whirl them from the const.
"Simultaneously British fighters at- tack the enemy air formations and bombers blast the ground in front
ind behind the German columns.
Nazi Push Slowed Down Thus has the German push been slowed down, though in the bewilder- counter- ing changes in thrust and thrust, it is yet impossible to paint a clear picture of events.
"British aircraft continue their to valorous career and fighters up Saturday
hind positively destroyed over 200 German machines.
"The average odds against the British pilots have been four to one. On one occasion 11 Hur- ricanes attacked an aerial armada of 90 German bombers escoried by 21 Messerschmitt 110's and brought down many of the enemy unill only four of the British attackers re-. mained when the bombers-turned Mingle back without dropping a bomb.
The Bridge Was Destroyed He paid a tribute of sincere
"R.A.F. bombers have been equally personat admiration to the plots and emcacious. After their rolds, cremy tanks have been seen afre and crows.
perhaps never be forgotten, says Mr. Charles Gardner, the B.B.C. corres- pondent at the Front.
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
-50 YEARS ACO
May 20, 1936. ! According to a home paper, the forma
May 21, 1940.
CHANGE IN POLICIES
French. Appointments Analysed
LONDON, May 20 (Router). ilon of the native regiment about to be "Reuter's" diplomatic corres raised for service at llongkong la pro groding at once. It will con of 20 pondent states that the altera officers, European, and, native, 2 warrant omcore 40 sergeants, 16 drummers, and tions in the French Cabinet and 920 rank and file-total 1,015. The neces- High Command make a very definite change in French policy sary votes have been taken in the current 25 YEARS AGO
both on the battlefield and world
year's estimates
May 20, 1919. A message from Catals says that a politics. Zeppelin dropped bombs there, killing some children.
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General Maxime Weygand's res putation for drive and energy is too evening communiqua atates well-known to require emphasis. The that the enemy in Belgium, menaced by only surprising feature is that his a complete envelopinent by our successes, talents have not been requisitioned last night hele remaining earlier for the Western Front, evacuated positions on the west of the Yeet.
although he had a very important Reuter's at Rome reports that the news.position as C.in-C. In the Near East.
•papers announce the departure of the Austro-German Ambassadera is imminent. Two special traine are held in readines There have been huge demonstrations in the Italian ciles, rejoicing in Bignor-9a- iandra's rotum. It is emphasised that the crisis has resulted in uniting Italy under the national flag,
10 YEARS AGO ·
May 20, 1935. The Royal and Ancient game was never zo Royal as to-day when it was watched by the Prince of Wales, Prince George, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of York at Sunningdale.
palatial motor The Inst of the three vessels built by the Nippon Yusen Kal sha for the Orient California fortnightly arvice, the Chichibu Maru, will arrive here to-day from Shanghai about noon and will berth at Kewloon Wharf.
S YEARS AGO
May 20, 1933.
The world walls with the Reenest in- tereat Chancellor Adolf Hitler's speech on German foreign policy in the fetchstag to-morrow at 6 pm. especially as it is believed in some quarters that the chlet European Governments have let it be known in Berlin that the mero reaffirma. tion of Germany's desire for peace wan't definito contribution from Germany to give satisfaction What la wanted is some the system of security. •
Undoubtedly his plans will be the basis of Ailled operations should war break out in that theatre.
London Approbation
The new ministerial appointments are regarded in London with general approbation.
The transfer of M. Charles Roux from the Vatican to the post of of the Qual Secretary-General Leger, who has been Chief of the D'Orsay in succession to M. Alexla permanent officials for many years, is considered very significant.
It will in no way affect the close- neas of Anglo-French co-operation but may facilitate a re-orientation of French policy in other directions.
Turkey Improssed ANKARA, May 20 (Reuter)-Mr. Churchill's rousing speech and the of General Maxime appointment Weygand have caused a favourable impression in Turkey.
The entire press expresses con- final victory for the Allies.
dence in
D
Appointment Welcomed LONDON, May 20 (Reuter).-- The problem which has arisen owing
welcomes General to the italo-Abyssinian disputes on the Britain warmly
Сол 15 Italian Somaliland-border. which has Weygand's new appointment brought these two powerful nations to the verge war, will be considered by mander-in-Chief in France. ".*
There is supreme confidence here the League of Nations Council on Wed nesday or Thursday of this week, it is au in Paris of his ability to shoulder belloved. The League is endeavouring the lask. bring arbitration to the rescue. and to
It is recalled that Marshal Foch this end is bringing what pressure it is able to bear upon bolli parties to the de-on his death-bed said that if France was in danger they should send for General Weygand.
pute.
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He was Marshal Foch's right-hand man and played a great part in pre- serving Foland in 1920.
Mr. Winston Churchill, noted Parils. mentarian and a close friend of the late Colonel T., Lawrence, hero of Arablan wars, paid a tribute to the young arelato logist who became one of Britain's most
He has recently been the French famous soldier-statesmen. "I had hoped to see him in quiet retirement or laking Commander-in-Chief in a commanding part in facing the dangers Bast. now threatening the country. No such blow has befallen the Empire in many yours as this young death."
the Near
To-day at 73 he is still stan's untimely height of his powers of energy.
at the
Their main task has been in con- overturned, rends have been blocked FOOD SITUATION 50,000 Planes
nection with the battle of Sedan which the French papers say is the biggest the world has ever known.
The action of the advance ale striking force has been 10 bomb, bomb and bomb_ogain without cessation
the German supplies,
with wreckage and bridges have been blown up..
"Оле
· bridge-heads and so on. They brought down" over 50 Heinkels, Dorniers, Junkers, Mes- The French and British Air Force merschmitts-The-RAF-suffered-have-done-this-wor-
the most important bridges survived eight efforts to de- stroy it. The pilots and crowa of Tour bombers approached the Cem- manding Officer and the senior pilot Sir. con we have permission to finish it?'
"The Squadron Lender replied: ]'Do TOUF
bombers nscended less than half of that number of They have also backed up the casualties.
French ground troops which stood None returned but the bridge
They watched 34 of their enemies up to the first great rush. crash and knew that their bullets had put another 16 planes out of uction,
Further Details'
Another Groat Task
To-day they have another task- LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)-Fur- to stop the supplies, particularly those of petrol, from coming up to the ther detalls are now available con- cerning the operations by R.AF. Nazi armoured columns. bombers on Saturday night.
Their objectives included the large oll storage tanks at Misburg, which is a few miles from Hanover, and the Important roads and bridges behind the enemy's lines at Gembloux, Givet, Dinant and Namur,
The Allied Air Forces are taking what may yet prove to be a decisivo They have already had n action.
They have great deal of success.
at also bombed the petrol stores
citics. and other
The Bremen
destroyed."
was
Place Hope On Roosevelt
Outspoken Stockholm
Press Comment f LONDON, May 20 (Rauter). Germans are well aware of the-In Stockholm the newspapers The attack on the oil storage tanks danger of defending their supplies refer to President Roosevelt's
shortly before midnight and with fighters. began before the last of the rolders left,
Oil Tanks Still Blaze
At one stogo of the operations,
seven bombs were seen lo fall |
"We Have Come Out Bost"
best
Our
recent utterances.
A Year
Appeal To U.S. Aviation Manufacturers
REMAINS GOOD Encouraging Statement By Minister
(Reuter)- LONDON, May 20 Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, WASHINGTON May 20 (Router). states that he is satisfied that his The Assistant Secretary for War, organisation will be able to deal with Mr Louis Johnson, addressed over the distribution of food suppiles even 100 representatives of the United In the event of an air attack on any States aviation industry at a confor to-day to, discuss President part of the country.
ence The invasion of the Low Coun- Roosevelt's appeal for 50,000 planes
a year. ilems of food, but they could be ob- tained elsewhere.
He has no "Intention of using his emergency powers to stop brewing by curtailing the supply of sugar, although there will be cuts. All manufacturers will receive not less than 40 per cent. of their pre-war requirements.
trics, he said, had cost Britain some
Nazi Gen. To Rule Occupied-Belgium
Mr. Johnson asked the manufac- turers to achieve this goal "as quickly efficiently and cheaply as possible."
Similar statements were made by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Mr. Henry Woodring, Treasury, Secretary for War and Mr. Hinckley, Chairman of Civil Aeronautics.
General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, informed the Military Commission of the House of Representatives that the War. De-!
tent wishes to expand the army's 6,000 to 10,000.
air corps from the present limit of
EGYPT TAKING PRECAUTIONS
We have fighters too and machines The "Dagens Nyheter" anys about two hours later, fires and ex- that arc beiter than the Nazl that "his political opponents hail plosions made evident the success of machines and flown by better pilots him as their spokesman."
LONDON, May 20 (Rouler)-It Is their bombardment.
"All the republics in the Western learned that General von Brauchlich
against Hemisphere protest
Ger- has appointed General von Falken- many's attack on Holland and Bel-hausen to be the Military Commander glum. The rallying around Wilson of Belgium and Holland.
occupled
CAIRO, May 20 (Reuter)-Pre- countries will be under military adventive measures against the fifth was hardly greater on that April day in 1917 when he broke with the Ger-
columnists in Egypt are well in hand. man Empire."
keep track of suspects.
Precautions against parachute Special squads have been detalled to landings have been taken here.
diagonally
Sometimes they had to fly at tree
oui We have always come across the target and three in fighter-lo-fighter combats. big explosions immediately followed, bombers have nearly always managed Several huge fires also broke out to fight their way through to their On the way home one raider repórted | objectives. that the all storage tanks at Bremen, which were bombed on Friday night. level and even around trees above were still on fire.
spitting machine guns, New Page In History, Perhaps one of the most amazing LONDON-May-2-(Router)In things about the recent air activity the, last five days the RAF. have has been the way in which puts written a page of history which will given up for lost, have reappeared
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The "Social Demokraten" states that it is clear that President Roose veit has acquired greater freedom for effective material help to the Allies, and "It can only be question of days or weeks before the American people hasten to the assistance of their European kinsmen."
EIRE CALLS UP RESERVES
..
The
ministration.
arcas
these
Holland will be under the command of General von Falkenhausen until Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inqunrt takas over his office as Nazi Gauleiter of the occupied areas.
Military Administration
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" -
20 BERLIN, May
(UP) DNB. reports that Hitler has empowered
General Brauchitsch to establish
military administration in all Ger- man-occupied territories. been appointed Military, Commander
General von Falkenhausen has
DUBLIN, May 20 (Reuter)-It is of Belgium and the Netherlands. officially announced that during the The Germans have already es- week-end certain classes of reservists tablished arbitrary rates of exchange were recalled to the colours to in the occupied areas. strengthen the defence forces.
New Powers For Military Courts
PARIS, May. 20 (Reuter). The Council of Ministers met. this even- ing and adopted various decree laws enabilng-military-tribunali -to-deal. more rapidly with certain crimes which are regarded as speckily grave in the existing circumstances.
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Malta Prepared. VALLETTA, Malta, May 20 (Reu- ter).-Preparations are being made here to meet any parachute menace. A volunteer contingent has bech rush to join the contingent.
formed and there has been a blg
STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES DOWN
LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)-On The Dutch guilder has been
14the Stock Exchange to-day, prices grotesquely undervalued at. marks, while the Bolglans must ex-were mostly marked down de a pre- change their francs for 10 pfennings. cautionary measure in view of the In the small area of France already existing. International situation, but occupied, the rate of exchange of the no selling pressure was seen. French frane has been set at five pfennings.
Canada To Raise More Troops
OTTAWA, May 20 (Reuter), According to the "Ottawa Jaumal", Mr. Mackenzle King is expected to announce that Canada will "ime- mediately raise a third division of the active service force which would probably mean that Canada mala- tain two divisions overseas and a third in Canada for supplying rein- forcements."
Safe Guarding The
Guilder
Japanese bonds advanced by one or two points on the possibility of an Improvement in Far Eastern rela- tions.
Wall Street was firm.
Queen Wilhelmina Receives Envoy
LONDON, May 20 (Router).- Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands resolved the American Ambassador, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, at Bucking- ham Palace to-day.
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