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German Blitzkrieg halted: Hitler turns westwards towards Cambrai
By RICHARD MCMILLAN
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE, MAY 21 (UP),—HALTED COMPLETELY IN THE EAST AND SOUTH, WHERE THE BLITZKRIEG HAS BEEN HURLED BACK BY THE SWIFTNESS OF THE GREAT NEW FRENCH COUNTER-ATTACK, THE GERMANS ARE NOW FIGHT- ING DESPERATELY IN THE WEST TOWARDS CAMBRAI, ARRAS AND AMIENS.
A Berlin communique now admits that "the capture of Paris is only of secondary military importance”—a tactical admission that efforts to penetrate further southwards have been abandoned;
“BLOOD-DRENCHED SOMME"
Invading tank battalions are finding that the going in the famous “blood- drenched Somme” of the last war is a different proposition to their comparatively easy task in Poland.
The German mechanised units are attempting to forge ahead into the Somme along a path of death sown by bombing planes, French 75 mm guns and opposing French planes. ·
SMASHING ALLIED bardment from the air,
ATTACKS ON FLANKS
"By RALPH HEINZEN
"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES MAY 21 (UP)-THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE ALLIED ARMIES SMASHED INTO THE TWO FLANKS OF THE GERMAN POCKET AT ITS WIDEST POINT LAST NIGHT, IN THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SERIES OF COUNTER-ATTACKS WHICH MAY NOW BE EXPECTED ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT.
The spearhead of the Aliled
attacks, which mark General,
Everywhere now, the Ger- man bulge is being sub- jected-to-a-merciless bom-
while both sides of the western salient-which-stret ches from the Sambre River, to Guise, is being harassed by Allied tanks and infantry.
FIRES RAGE
Tho-night-sky-for-miles--be- hind the front lines is brilliant with fires as both air forces are blowing up munitions, petrol and other dumps, or setting fire to villages,
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THIS MAP illustrates tho presont situation on the Western Front, the arrows showing where the Allies ara now counter-attacking. The approximate Gorman positions are indicated by the dark lino running from the top loft-hand corner
of the map to Montmedy. East of this line, the Franch fortifications are intact.
Large-Scale Demonstrations Planned MUSSOLINI TO SPEAK ON WAR ANNIVERSARY
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Wants U.S. To Aid The Allies
Newsman Forms New Organisation
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI
LATEST
GERMANS MASS
—PARIS-May-20-(Domel)-in-an effort to meet the great Allied coun- ter-offensive that is now developing on the left and right flanks of the. German bulge, the Germans have between four and Ave
NEW YORK, May, 20 (UP). massed
ROME, May 21 (Domei).-Mussolini is expected to Mr. William A. White, the divisions on their left Bank.
A communique states that the address the Italian people on Friday, which will be the noted American journalist, has Allied mechanised forces have com 25th anniversary of Italy's entry into the Great War on fond America" which has as its to meet these German reinforce
organised a "Committee to Depleted their strategical concentration
the side of the Allies.
A large-scale demonstration will be staged throughout Italy.
Diplomatic circles are speculating whether Mussolini will PARIS, May 21, (UP)-The choose this day on which to reveal Italy's intentions in the pre-
Weyrand's assumption of the CAMBRAI German rout south of the Aisne
Supreme Command, were launch-
ed at Maubeuge in the north and along the Aisne in the south.
Held on
their crumbling. flanks. which are now in imminent danger of dhintegratlag, the Germans are fighting furiously, to prevent Hitler's billakrieg machine from becoming completely stalled and smashed on the plains of Picardy.
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Naxis Big Risk
The German. Supreme Command
took the unprecedented risk of throw-
READY FOR NAZIS
Civilians Evacuate Famed War Town By RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED PRESS WAR -
CORRESPONDENT
ing ten columns of motorcycleWITH THE FRENCH troops and other mechanised cavalry ARMIES, May 21, (UP)—I was ahead of their main forces in an at- with the last French troops in tempt to plant advance elements solidly along the Somme River.
mast
bul (i la notable” thai lhe note at French G.HQ. to-day is the
optimistic in a week, da
Yesterday's fiercest fighting | oc-
Cambral last night when the Germans hended in its direction
is undoubtedly the greatest blow
the Nazi military machine has HUNGARIAN
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suffered in its long history of invasion and rampage.
The Alne has been entirely clear- ed of Germans.
Several German mechanised de- tachments which were caught in a pocket above the Alsue, and which became isolated when the rein- forcements were repulsed, have| Hakrendered.
The Germans who surrendered
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PACT IS ALLEGED Passage Of Nazi Troops Permitted
sent war.
PHONES CUT SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, May 21 (UP) Telephone communications be tween London and Switzerland, Yugo-Slavia, Paris and Rome has been entirely severed.
main objective complete aid ments. to the Alles in the fight against Germany.
Among 'prominent Americans who have joined the organisation are Mr. Henry L. Stimson, Bishop Manning of New York Frank Lehman, the Governor of New York, Mr. Frank Knox, the Republican Candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1830, and Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931.
War Has Reached
Critical Stage
BASLE, May 29 (Domel)--What may happen during the next several. days in the northern France battles will become a decisive factor, in the European war, neutral milltary.cx- perts
belleve..
Reports reaching here indicate that Allied forces are now.con- powerful Meanwhile, in Richmond, Virginia, centrating near Valenciennes, while
still
more powerful French troops Bishop Cannon has addressed an open It has been impossible to telephone letter to Mr. Cordell Hull, urging the are massed in the area near Loan to Rome since: 6.20 p.m., to Parla Secretary of State to use his great and Rothel.
In this connection, these experts: since. 5.40 p.m., to Zurich since 2.20 intuence with President Roosevelt
point out that the Allied forces are a.m, and to Zagreb since 3,30 am, and Congress to declare war
now rapidly moving to striko the The postal authorities state that Hitler and "his fellow-monsters."
Germans from both north and south. the delay will be for an indefinite
Speculations are circulating over the possible German strategy to copo Period. No explanation is available.
Americans Leaving SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
numbered some thousands. In TOKYO, May 21 (Domel)
were forced to Germany and Hungary conclud. surrender their tanka; in othered a secret military agreement they managed to blow up their machines before surrendering them on May 14 providing for their
GENOA, May 21 (Domel)-H selves to the French.
mutual military co-operation, dreds of Americans, acting on the St. Quentin Battle
according to relicble informa- advice of their Legations, have ar- So far, the situation here is obscure, from the Sambre region, and I Meanwhile, a
a violent battle suntlon reaching here from Berlin. rived
in Genoa during the past Under the agreement Hungary will twenty-four hours froen Switzerland. Further evacuees are erriving from saw the city evacuated yester-rages north of St. Quentin.
The small German mobile unit permit passage of the German army the Balkans. day afternoon of all its civilians
which succeeded In entering St. through her territory, while Germany |within a span of six hours, des- Quentin on Sunday has been, wiped will co-operate with Hungary to Egypt Toking Procautions
greater Hungary by curred on the rolling tarm lands east pile the destruction of its one out and the German vanguard is establish na
CAIRO, May 20 (Reuter)-Pre- and south-east-of Cambrai, on the railway station by five German now more than eight miles to the restoring port of the former Crecho-
north.
Slovakian and also ... Yugo-Slavian ventive measures cast bank of the Escaut River and bombers.: '
against the Rith columnists in Egypt are well in band. around Montmedy.
The fighting so far in this sector territories, weste Cambrat is typical of hundreds of is almost entirely a battle of Tank Political circles in this connection Special squada bave been detalled to Five Divisions Thrown Back towns in that sector which are being versus Tank.
point out that since the conference keep track of suspects, jah 4t Al Montmedy the Germans sacri- fought over to-day after twenty years Since Sunday, several thousand at Bled in August of last year be- Precautions against fleed five divisions (76,000 men) in of painful rising from the ruins of tanks have been engaged almost con- tween Hungary, Rumania, Yugo Landings have been taken here,
tinuously:“in the fighting.
Slavia and Crocho-Slovakia, Hungary Malta Proparod an abortive effort to break the left the last war.
has been Increasingly insistent that VALLETTA, Malta, May 20 (Rou flank of the Maginot. Line,' which
the Berlin-Tome axis should change ter)-Preparations are being made ends at Malmedy,
her status in this sector,
The five German divisions, In obedience.. to the orders from Head- quarlors, advanced stolidly against the guns of the Maginot Line.
Martyr Town Of World War
They were the marlyr towns of the World War.
Cambrai auffered particularly, Al- most nothing was left except a church
In this attack, the German soldier steeple, while mass of bricks and discovered,, for the first time, the unrecognisable deadly nature of the fire which can rubble. The city was built anew on be poured from the huge under the levelled debris of the last
War.
NO FIREARMS
FOR ALIENS
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FRED SNITETO BECOME FATHER
SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH":
CHICAGO, May, 20 (UP), Fred Salte, the man in the fron lung, is to become a falier
Mr. Snite senior to-day announced that Fred's wife, Teresa, is expecting a baby in September.
Fred and Teresa were married last August.
with this Ailled counter-offensive.
The German rany drive towards the
Straits of Dover, completely ignoring
the Allied, attack "in order to fight the Allies' rear in Flanders, or they may drive to the north and south.
Son Back Paga · For Further: Lato Naws:
Hitler Prepares People For Shock of Failure
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)—German official statements about the western offensive shop that the Nazis realise the taak which the German High Command is facing. Slag
The German public has been The German High Command has
here to meet any parachute menice.
A volunteer contingent has been] formed and there has been a big SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”!
Hungary, Germany can now advance rush to join the contingent. LONDON May 20 (UP)-It is to Rumania, Yugo-Slavin and other | Mediterranean Black-Out officially announced that all aliens in Balkan States, increasing her pres-RUSALEM May 20 (Router) the British Isles will henceforth be sure upon these countries. prohibited from possessing firearms. But a delicate and complex A successful black-out practice on warned that the campaign can to be prepared for the possibility
Police authorities are tolting the situation will arise with the Soviet the Mediterranean const was held on not be conducted without A.German.communique also speake ground. fortresses at any advancing Behind the hotel where war cor- most drastic precautions in the Union, who also “intends to "in" Saturday night,
north flank, takaren enemy,"
A respondents have shollered in the Thames estuary to prevent the. -in- fluence the Balkan Blake Sh
Halfa and its vicinity are blacked-casualties. They have been told of the possibility of an attack on the The attack withered and died present hostilities directly
that the casualties will be Icas out every night. across Altention of German "fifth colum-
Allies Attacking away long before any German the street from the best bomb target niste" wlio may seek to
enter the
than those of the Somme and - SPECIAL TO THE “TELEOMAPU****** Ciano Going To Albania #oldier
Marne in the Inst war. The Allied troops have already. hand grenade range of any one of air raid shelter trench dug in the
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Oficial German archieves put the attacked | tiny triangular parką???
(UP) Count the casemente,
:-) every ship and several men have inforziod; alroles; stalo thai, Rymatan Ciano the Italian Foreign Minister German losses on the Sommo then at Valenclennos, according to the corn-
ready been djdetained; Crews The total achievement by the|| Trenches have now been dug Dutch hips are not permitted an in hopeveral vision in the inspection
Loves troop movements, involving the shift is to proceed to Albania on The losses at the Marns were about command,lais is an attempt by his
700,000 dead, wounded and captured, muniqueper
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