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New Measure AMBITION
Franco Empressed
May 24, 1940.
U.S. MINISTER RESIGNS
LONDON, May 23 (Reuter)=Mr. WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuter), Fred Smith, Secretary of the Amal--President Roosevelt has accepted Berlin, May 23,gamated Engineering Unions, ex- the resignation of Mr. James Crom- A military spokesminu to-day emphasised to the Press that Hitler's preases the Trade Union view when well, US, Minister to Canada.
(Somo months ago, Mr. Cromwell in prline objective was the conquest of he says, apropos of the new Emer-
gency regulation; "It it is designed a speech in Canada condemned Nazi Britain.
Latest reports. from the front make to get the maximum effort out of aggresalon and brought on a series of However, no enthusiastic claims of successes everybody, I am whole-heartedly in senatorial denunciations.
The sald he was prepared to place hlá but merely say that in the face of favour of it.”
head on the diplomatic block on the furious counter-attacks the Germans
| strength of that speech. He was sub- are spreading a new thrust to the PARIS, May 23 (Router)—The sequently rebuked by the State De north along the French coast in order action of the British Parliament in partment and asked to be more dis- to close, around the Allies in west pasing the new Emergency Bill is erect in future, Recently he Fart. Belgium.
regarded in France MA one more nounced his intention to resign from Reports paint a picture of despair proof of British unity and determina-his post and to run for Senntar for and near panic in London and Parlson to fight to the end,
New Jersey). because of the initial success of the blitzkrieg which swallowed Holland. Luxembourg and two-thirds of Belgium and pushed a hugo bulge into France to create a serious threat that the war might be soon brought| to Britain,
It is claimed that the Germans have thrust about 30 miles intand and northward and that eventually they will reach the north-west tip of Belgium and Dutch border. It'is
the pointed, out that after. cutting the Allled troops die Germans will be able to concentrate on their push neross the Channel,
Auhorised quarters, after querying the High Command, flatly deny the report that the Allies have recaptured Abbeville, Amiens und Sellan. United Prest.
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Miss Hindle, of Heyes-
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George Sellers, of Trevelynn- street, Eccles, in a claim against his employers, M. Epstein, manufac- turers of unholstery, of Cambridge- street Mills, Lower Broughton, was awarded £1,260.
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LATE NEWS
GERMANY'S "OBJECTIVES”
BERLIN, May 24 (Domel),--Nazi spokesman to-day revealed German war alms as follows:
1-Complete crushing of Allied|
forces;
-2-Surrender of France;
3Reduction of Britain.
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respokesman continued:
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German objectives, sald spokesman, are. (1) annihilation of Immense British,
French and Belgian forces in Belgium and northern France (2) accelerate surrender of France
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"Germany contemplates operations against Britals both from the air and the sea," wald spokeszDAN.
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