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四拜縣三十月五英港香
THURSDAY MAY 23, 1940,
Dutch Port A Mass of Shambles
Rotterdam's 50,000 Casualties
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI ROTTERDAM, May 22 (UP)-At least one square mile of the principal business and old residential district of Rotterdam is a mass of shambles as a result of the German bombings.
Reliable reports put the num- ber of casualties as high as 50,000.
A priest told the "United Press" that the basis of his information was gained from doctors and hospital files.
The show that 20,000 Uves were
Cyclonic Effect
jost.
This estimate corresponds competent neutral sources,
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The official German announcement endeavoured to show that only 300 were killed, but an Air Force cap- tain said that there were "probably several thousand corpses,"
Bulidings, some of them from two to ten stories, are now blasted heaps. The general picture is that of a district levelled by a cyclone.
WONDERFUL
SOISSONS
SVALENCIEN
Brainy.
MAP ILLUSTRATING yesterday's fighting. The German mechanis-
ed vanguard is reported to be stiil at Abbeville, where it is cut off from the German rear. Arras has reverted to the Alles and heavy fighting is
taking place around Cambral, which the French are attacking from the south and west and the British" and "Belgian from the north-As a com parison, the situation on the previous day is also shown by the black por- Hen of the map, which represents the point of extreme penetration of the main German forces,' following the mechanised units which had penetrat ed Orally to Arras and, secondly,through Amiens to Abbeville,
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German Hopes of Channel Victory Fading?
BIG BATTLE FOR CAMBRAI SWINGS IN OUR FAVOUR
By MILES HANDLER (UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)
PARIS, MAY 23 (UP).—ALTHOUGH IT IS TOO EARLY YET TO PROPHESY, IT APPEARS THAT THE GERMAN BLITZKRIEG · TO THE COAST HAS BEEN HALTED ALMOST WITHIN SIGHT OF ITS OBJECTIVE.
This hopeful news comes three days after the earlier drive on Paris had been halted and flung back at the Aisne.
ISOLATION THREAT
The German mechanised forces which pushed ahead of the main army at Cambrai is now reported to be facing the threat of isolation as a result of the re-capture by French troops of the bomb-torn city of Arras.
Picked shock troops participated in the counter-attack on Arras, which is 55 miles from the coast and 40 miles from Abbeville, the nearest point the German mechanised vanguard succeeded in penetrating towards the coast. CHAOTIC BATTLE
GALLANTRY can be seen, the heaviest fighting (around Cambral) is now further from the interior around the strategie city of Cambrai.
AND GRIT
Mr. Duff Cooper's Tribute To B.E.F. LONDON, May 22 (Reuter). In the firing line men from all over the British Commonwealth of Nations are fighting with wonderful gallantry and grit, said Mr. A. Duff-Cooper," the Minister of Information, in a broadcast to the Empire to night,
B.E.F. will yet show the Ger- mans, to their cost, of what the men
of the British Empire are made.
port,
he said. When the history, of
will perhaps te recorded that the
both the coast and Paris.
Tremendous Allied Pincer Movement
NAZIS TRAPPED ON TWO SIDES.
By RALPH HEINZEN
"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT PARIS, May 23 (UP).—The great Allied armies of the north and centre last night massed their overwhelm ing forces on the thin flanks of the Germans on the plains of Picardy, between the Somme and Escaut River.
The R.A.F. have played a heroic Slowly but surely, the two Allied armies are now thic battle cones to be written, it squeezing the long, thin German line-much the same as men of the ILA.F. from far an wide a giant press crushes anything placed between its jaws France and England, and all we holds General Weygand, flying across the German lines precious. from disaster and defeat.
in the British Commonwealth saved
Hitler's Boundless. Lust To-day the situation perhaps is graver than at any time in the last
war. That does not mean that defeat
is on the horizon, but the gravity of the position does mean that we must steel ourselves for news of reverse, and that all the dangers of war hove
been brought much closer to those whose duty lies in the British Isles.
"We know that there are no bounds to iller's Just for world power," sald Mr. Duff-Cooper, "and we know in what contempt he helda all non- German races and peoples, especially thoso.of Africa and Asia.
to hasten the disposition of his troops, began the application of Marshal Foch's clementary principle of tactics “the best defence is a strong attack."
The anxiety with which the German High Command is viewing the latest Allied operation is indicated by the feverish manner in which they are attempting to pour reinforcements in- to the deepest part of the pocket at present held only by small but vigorously aggressive motorised units.
Severe Blow To Nazia
Alles is a severe blow to the Ger- The re-capturs of Arras by the
mans, for it immediately nullifies the carlier mechanised drive towards the Channel, which took tho German motor-cyclo vanguard to Abbeville and, it was claimed by the Germans. The German "Panzer division is
"I know that the people of the British Commonwealth will play
beir part as nobly as the people of Le Torquet. these Islands. We hear with as great
a pride as you feel of the deeds of now nowhere west of Acres in this
men from the Dominions, India and sector.
U.S. Taking
No Chances
Americans In Eiro To Go Home
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuter),
MORE DRAMATIC RAIDS BY R.A.F.
Prussia.
SITUATION
LONDON, May 22 (Reuter)—The Air Ministry announces that during last night large formations of bombers carried out chaotic battle is now raging still further in operations on military objectives and key points in Rhenish Many direct hits were regis- UNEASY BALKANS A large-scale counter-attack in this sector was tered on bridges, railway june- ordered by General Weygand, the new Supreme Comman-tions and rolling, stock,
Stavanger aerodrome was again der of the Allied forces, after he had personally flown bombed last night and a large fire was seen burning as our alrereft-let over the German lines to inspect the situation,
All day yesterday our fighter air- craft carried out protective patrols for FURIOUS ATTACKS
our bombers over the battle areas int Belgium and Northern France. Many The furious Allied attack on Cambrai is being engagements were fought and at least 24 eneiny alreraft were destroyed or launched from two directions...
seriously damaged,
The French forces are attacking from the south and west.
Eight of our fighters are missing.' Of the very large force of alreraft engaged in both day and night bomb- ing operations over the battle areas in Northem France, Belgium and
Пус Tailed return.
Simultaneously, the British and Belgian forces which the Germans earlier claimed had been effectively sur-Scandinavia, only rounded and bottled in the Valenciennes area launched
a large-scale attack from the north, smashing into the right flank of the invaders just north of Cambrai. SITUATION SUMMARISED
The situation is therefore as follows:
Far from surrounding the British and Belgian forces in the north, the Germans who have pushed west of Cambrai are now in imminent danger of being pinched off and surrounded.
The German lines to Amiens and other points west of Cambral are being maintained through this narrow bottleneck which is being threatened on both sides by the Allics.
NAZIS CUT OFF
D.E.I. Money Pegged To Sterling
Move In Line With Home Govt.
to
As a result of the recapture by the French of Arras, the Anglo-French Finance and
the small detachment of German troops operating west-
Belgian Govt.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BUCHAREST, May 22 (UP).. King-Carol of Romania has cancelled the extensive monies planned for June 8 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his reign.
cere-
This measure has been taken in view of the uneasy situation In the Balkana,...........
A "Domel" report says that as a result of the Rumanian General Staff's announcement
that more reserves are to be called up, the mebllisation of the Rumanian army has now reach- ed 1,300,000.
30 Day Limit BUCHAREST, May 23 (Reu- ter). It is officially announced that the military measures de cided yesterday by the Rumant. an General Staff will be limit ed to a period of 30 days.
Big Sum For U.S. Army
amendments,
provides for 2,508 military planes,
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuter). BATAVIA, May 22 (Domel). The Senate has passed to $1,823,- Government of the 000,000 Army Appropriations Blil The Netherlands East Indies has which includes most of the money asked by President Roosevelt for the decided to peg its currency with Emergency Defence Bill Sterling as well as the Dollar, in It now returns to the House of Aline with the participation by Representatives for action on the
the Netherlands Government in
The Bill, as passed by the Senate,
many anti-aircraft-woapona, tanks Monetary Agreement.
and anti-tank guns as well as funde Sterling will be employed in trade to raise the army peace time per- of wards in the vicinity of Abbeville are, says a French dealings between the Netherlands sonnel from the present figure
East Indies and the British Empire, 227,000 to 280,000. except with Canada, Newfoundland report, already sliced off
and
official Hongkong, with the from their rear.
Sterling rale fixed at Gulden 7.60. The U.S. Dollar rate is maintained The French report claims that
at the level of Gulden 1.87%. can send but the power of a united heigion and Dutch forces in the north send the liner, President Roosevelt, the left bank of the Somme be At Le Havre Payments to those countries parti- resolve from every quarter of the and been cut off by the rapid Gerto Elre to bring Americans home from low Amiens is now being firmly
cipating in the Anglo-French agree- British Commonwealth to win man advances on Arras and Amiens Europe.
held behind fortified positions.
ment will, however, bo made in US. through to victory."
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"! .. the force in this area numbers be-
Dollars or other foreign currencies „tween-600,000 and 1,000,000.ruen--the. The ship will sall from Now York Reports from Berifn claim that the
German forces posscss30-mile TOKYO,-May-23-(Dottiel)-King permitted by the authorities of the enlira Allied Army is still completely to-day for Galway.
and and is separated from the Mr. Cordell Hull, the U.S. Secretary foothold along the English Channel, Leopold and the Belgian Govern- Netherlands East Indies, in order to
France, according
NEW YORIĆ, May 22 (Router), Ger-States envoys in London, Paris, Der-neutral quarters.
to a statement those countries. now precariously held by the Air Force
The exchange market here is dull, According to information · received M. Pierre Forthcomme, the by man inotorised columns.
Brussels, The Hague and Oslo lin,
The Germans admit that Allied WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuter) the Allled troops in the north
Thus, if General Weygand destres. Instructing them to inferno, the Gov-
Carments to which ther:nom gccréditad pressure in the Cambrai, sector Bolaian Ambassador to Japan, to Mr. with no exchange dealings observed. from the Swedlih banks says 'the
Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister.
I is stated that the Belgian 'Am-| The Naval Committee of the House effect a funsture with the French that the United States "Government severe, but deny that Arras has been of Representatives has unanimously forces in the south simply by mar-
"expects this vessel to make its recaptured, by the French.
It is admitted that the Allied basiador declared that the reason for approved 6 Bill authorising an inching through the this German lines. costward and westward crease of the Naval Air Force to
Government was to avoid further, So secure is General Weyganil: in without interruption or molestation armies are exceptionally strong and the removal of the King and the ITALIAN MEDAL budete te rest of their bank
danger by remaining in Belgium. 10,000 planes with 10,000 pilots,
the Colonies in the fighting areas.
"We feel behind us not only the
Despite the exultant German radio
weight of vital supplies the Empire claims that the vital British, French-The Government has decided
to
F
Bigger US. Navales of the core toy a trim zone of State, has telegraphed the United but this is regarded sceptically. In ment have moved to Le Havre in maintain direct or indirect exports to
The Bill atro authorises $144,000,
000
for naval and air bases.
LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)The Amalgamated Engineering Union han
that the northern. Allied armies are any belligerent. the belief that the German claims by the air naval or military forces of include some of France's
are fantastic that he has made no
therefore Genaral
equipped eller
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made
FOR GOERING
LATEST
NAZI FEARS OF U.S.
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liquidated
Germans have
have transferred them to Swedish banks.
This step is iniken to indicate that ROME, May 22 (Router)The Germany no longer feels certain that WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuter). King has conferred the Supreme the United States will keep out of By 12 votes to one, the Senate Order of Annunciation, Italy's highest the war. Foreign Relations Committee shelved decoration, on Field Marshal Hermann the proposal mentioned yesterday Goering to mark the first anniversary
United States
should
sell of the alming of the - Italo-German Ila Atmy
surrounded and in Imminent danger that the vessel would carry no cargo Mr. Hul also told the envoys to say
Official French Report move to effect a broak-through, and on its westward trip would take PARIS May 22 (Router)
mony American cluze
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