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MAY 25, 1940. 日九十月四 0
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The
Empire
"ISSUE OF LIFE & DEATH
the 'bulge' FOR US ALL"-THE KING
intensifies
By MILES HANDLER
(UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)
PARIS, May 24, (8 p.m.).—A high military source here has denied the German claim to the capture of Calais and Boulogne.
He said the situation at Calais is favourable and that the Germans have not entered the city.
The Allied forces inside Boulogne are still holding out and the combats are still limited to the outskirts.
To-night's official French communique said the French have launched a successful counter-attack south of Sedan.
25-MILE BOTTLENECK
Missed French infantry slashed at both sides of the 25-mile bottleneck north of the Somme, through which the German troops are pouring towards the Channel.
The battle rages hottest at Amiens and along the Scheldt River on the north side where the French claimed to "have begun their advance."
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A military source said very heavy fighting continued
LONDON, MAY 24 (REUTER) HIS MAJESTY THE KING BROAD- CAST AN EMPIRE DAY MESSAGE TO THE NATION TO-NIGHT.
"A YEAR AGO," HE SAID, "I SPOKE TO THE PEOPLES OF THE Hell Is Let Loose From The Air
EMPIRE FROM WINNIPEG IN THE HEART OF CANADA: "WE WERE AT PEACE”
"We were at peace.
"On that Empire Day, I spoke of the ideals of freedom, justice and peace upon which our Commonwealth of free peoples is founded.
"Clouds were gathering, but I held fast to the hope that those idcals might yet achieve a fuller and richer development without suffering the grievous onslaught of
HITLER STAKES ALL
Win Or Lose War In One Battle
BERNE, May 24 (Router).——— German official circles openly admit that the Reich is now playing all its trump cards on the Western Front, according to neutral correspondents in Berlin.
war.
"But it was not to be.
R.A.F. CARRY OUT MERCILESS RAIDS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, May 24 (UP).-The Royal Air Force
continued their unrelenting attacks against German
columns on the Western Front to-day,
Nazi concentrations in the Arras and Boulogne,
"The evil which we strove unceasingly and with all districts were mercilessly bombed, says an Air Ministry honesty of purpose to avert, fell upon us.
OUR CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR
"In this our conscience is clear.
"For there is now revealed without possibility, of mistake a long planned scheme to subjugate by force the nations of the world against which all our efforts for peace were doomed to break.
"A decisive struggle is now upon us. PLAIN SPEAKING
It is stated that the Germans trial. realise that the result of the war will probably depend on the issue of the present operations. Consequently, they are throwing into the battle all their reserves
all day in the Valenciennes and Carnbrai sector, whereof mechanised material. strong attacks and bitter counter-attacks alternated. NAZIS ISOLATED
NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuter).-Five thousand German troops belonging to mechanised units are reported to be isolated in Amiens, according to a broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company's Paris represen-
{tative.
ITALIAN SITUATION
This representative added that other Nazi mechanised forces are "stalled" owing to lack of
OMINOUS fuel.
ORDERS
Operations in northern France and Belgium are believed to comprise the first part of Hitler's-plan,
The German troops, however, are meeting a resistance with which they do not appear to have reckoned.
The second phase of the plan would be a direct attack against Britain.
Trade Talks With Soviet
New Possibility Envisaged
statement in the House of Commons
"I am going to speak plainly to you in this hour of
"I know you would not have me do otherwise.
"Let no one be mistaken: it is no mere territorial conquest our enemies are seeking.
"It is the overthrow, complete and final, of this Empire and of everything for which it stands, and after that the conquest of the world..
“And if their will prevails they will bring to its accomplishment all the hatred and cruelty which they already display.
LIFE OR DEATH ISSUE
"It is not easy for us as to believe that designs so evil could find a place in the human mind.
"But the time for doubt is long past.
"To all of us in this Empire, to all men with vision Allied forces are busily mopp- ing up these isolated Germans. LONDON, May 24 (Reuter)-The and goodwill throughout the world, the issue is now
Extremely Intense Fighting LONDON, May 24 (Reuter)-A yesterday by Mr. R. A. Butler, the plain.⠀
that Government taking im
Italian Shipping To French military spokesman indicated Under-Secretary for Foreign Affaire,
Remain In Port
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEQRAPH" LONDON, May 24 (UP), Diplomatic circles in London are taking an increasingly, serious vlow regarding the possibility of Italy entering the war.
communique.
Last night R.A.F. units made strong sorties on the enemy's lines of communication in north east France, southern Belgium and the Rhineland.
Hits were registered on the railway junctions at La Chapelle, Beaumont and Gambloux. Rolling stock and trang- port columns were set afire, and many explosions occurred.
Nazi Planes Routed
On
LONDON, May 24 (Renew tér).
The Alr Ministry that while announces patrol over the French coast
his afternoon, 11 at our fighters encountered a much larger enemy force.
Without loss to them- selves, they attacked and shot down 11 Messerscht- mitts and seriously damaged- three others.
WHY THEY WILL LOSE
S. African Premier On Psychological Defects
JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (Reuter)General Jan Smuts,
the South African Premier,
"It is an issue of life or ABBEVILLE honour of his 70th birthday,
this afternoons that the heaviest fight- ing was taking-place in the west mediate steps to improve relations death for us all.
with the Soviet Union scema to and around Arras bral and W
indicate, says Valenciennes.
There, he said, the fighting was extremely intense. For the rest there was little change.
The correspondent says that
CARNAGE
speaking at a civle banquet in
uttered # Government would deal with "Fifth Columnists".
Other bombers attacked Charleroi where they scored
direct hits,
80 Naxi Planes Down
No less than 80 Nazi planes were brought down or acriously damaged in the mumerous raids with the RAF carried out dur- ing' to-day
Ten Brlish planes are reported to be missing, M
-Eleven lighting British plans over the French coast this afternoon. brought down cleven Messerschmidis. and seriously damaged three more. stated the Air Ministry communique. Repeated Bombing Attacks LONDON, May 14 (Reuter)Ther Air Ministry announces that intense air activity on an Increased scale continued yesterday, last night and to-day over the fighting fronts in France and
Repented day made by. R.AF. bombers on enemy columna In the nel
neighbourhood
and Bombing attacks wore.
Arra
and
Boulogne.
Strong sorties were made during the 'night on the enemy's lines of com- munication In north-east France. Among the targets hit by the heavy
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LATEST
warning that the H.K. TRADE
General Smuts also referred
"Reuter's" diplomatic "Defent will not mean some correspondent, that the latest Soviet brief eclipse from which we shall communication is regarded as open-emerge with strength renewed- Ing the door towards the possibility
it will mean the destruction of of trade talks. Official communique Issued to-day
in our world as we have known it announced that the French had reached the outskirts of Amiens, that these circumstances there is reason and a descent into darkness upon
to believe that subject to the agree its ruins. there had been increased pressure on ment of the Soviet Government, the The despatch of Sir Samuel the line at the Somme and that the British Government may send Sir Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid enemy attacks at Sedan had continued Stafford Cripps to Moscow on an is believed to be
Vin history, without appreciable progress despite designed to the means employed to stop th check any similar trend in
It was learned here to-day that Spain.
Boulogne was in German hands.
General Weygand is anxious not to
Private advices received, in New
York state that Mr. Winston Chur help the enemy by giving them any chill, the Prime Minister, has ex-information which might be useful. changed messages with Mussolini in an attempt to Italy's attitude.
A message from Rome states that the Italian Line confirms that the luxury
liner
which scheduled to leave for New York on
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ations.
Most Planes Obsolete
"There is a word which our enemies used against us-Imperialimn.
"By that they mean a spirit of domination, ne lust for conquest.
**The last time I saw it, it was one Vasi demolailen of smouldering ruins, with the shattered streets strew with dead and dying women and children.
MAILY.
war
BOOM CONTINUES
of
Thus, In terms of local currency the
New York has been postponed inde telephone ines and other communica". Renr. Admiral J. H. Towera. Deaco; peace in which our institutions crackers,""--
Wholesale Slaughter to South Africa's fine response
By Nazi Bombers to the call for volunteers.
Ho declared that the world would | LONDON, May 24 (Reuter). be much poorer at the end of the The Colony's trade continues to
war and Abbeville, where the German be
there probably would boom unprecedented impoverishment. "I speak to you to-day with
Offcial figures released this morn- the most colossal destructioning show that, during Apr the
combined values
Importa and exploratory mission to ascertain what new visions of this Empire bo advance turned northward-to-after
wards the Channel ports, was
exports of merchandise totalled $131 bases are available for trade negoti-fore my eyes.
Psychological Defects ·
was compared That It has come into conflet and bombed to places by the German
200,000 (£8,100,000) sharp comparison with the evil air force before their troops The Germans lost the Inst
with $100,000,000 (£8,500,000) in is attempting its seized the town, according to a machine because of psychological system which
despite
April, 1039. their matchless・・ milltary | April destruction its full significance Signor
Hence it will not always be possible
appear in a brighter and more Red Cross man who has just defects which remain unchanged and total viable trade of the Colony In- certain light. clarify to announce what towns have been
left northern France.
which will once more defeat Ger-creased by 23.1 per cent, during April jof this year as compared with, a year: taken or retaken na there is reason
ago. In terms of sterling the in- to believe that the advance German
Nazl fanaticism may call forth a crease was 24.6 per cent. may not have of com- units
Jess
.and municating with their headquarters. U.S. Senate Committee
flerce
Imports of merchandise during fanaticism on the other side, and to determined
to $72,100,000 last April amounted General Position
"Hears Disclosures
Cast The Word Back May 20, has postponed the date of In general, however, the position is
the moral factor will be added the (4,500,000) as compared with $57- religious factor.
***000,000 (£8,500,000) in 1939, while her departure until June 12,
WASHINGTON, May 24
We sre-from.peoples of the Empire.
"The Germans bombed it appar
exports totalled $59,000,000 (£8,000, The Conte Savola, which was that sorne German units have got-lo
ently without thought of military
South-Africa-will-be-in-the strug- 000) as compared-
$40,000,000 scheduled
leave for New York on the north coast of France. They (Reuter).--Declaring that the Cast that word back in their teeth.
"It they who have these evil objectives, dropping high explosive gle to the full and to the end, said (£3,000,000) a year Jurso 12, ha postponed the date of penetrated through the narrow gap people ought to face facts," the
incendiary bombs
General Smuts. and incendiary aspirations. departure until Jime 23, between Arran end the Sommo.
Senate Naval Committee de- Their units are busy destroying clined to suppress testimony by The sailing of the Augustus for
"Our 'one object has always been darts which shoot about like jumping may be developed: the condition of It is thought probable that the Chief of the Bureau of
our propics improved and German High Command is not fully Aeronautics.
of Government solved in EVACUATION OF problems informed about the movements. of
Admiral Towers testified that of spirit of goodwill Sm these troops.
the Navy's 1,307 combat planes, only "This is the peace which they have | 192 were less than a year old.
LONDON, May 24 (Reuter)-The The taken from us and they are seeicing
The first four months of 1918-pro- Ministry of Aircraft Production an others ranged up lo seven years old. to destroy all that, we have striven to
GIBRALTAR, May 24 (Router)nounces that Lord Austin has retired vido remarkable trade figures. The Senator Byrd mid that on the maintain strength
"Against our honesty is dishonour, In connection with Gibraltar's from the chairmanship of the shadow total volume of imports were valued of this testimony, ho
he at $270,400,000 16,700,000) Laat ovacuation plans, it has been made Acro-Engine Committee which
PLEASE Turn To Page 16. enimated that only about 500 of the agony, ugalist our justice la brute clear that, there is no intention, at has held since the Committee's in- Navy's machines could meet modern treachery,
present, of making it: compulsory for Mr. W. E. Rootes succeeds Lord
ception: over four years ago. ¿ European planes in equal combat. for in clear and unmistakeable anyone to leave except women with Ivan-Malsky, the Soviet Ambassador confront one another.
"The uptlain of peoples through in London, called at the Foreign Ofice to-night.
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finitely.
The Neptunia, which was schedul ed to leave for Central American ports on May 24, will not now leave until June al
tions.
Any information released by the Allies about Uich might enable the PLEASE Turn To Page 4..
Italy Celebrates Am Anniversary ROME, May 24 (Reuter)—Kaly's
of of entrance into the Great War pared calling that today's ally was then the enemy by siting that Italy went olti soberly,
There were no boisterous demon- to war with the Hapsburg Empire. strations in the streets of tho cities The "betrayal" by her formTICK mli-Ally Day than pro-German articles which all proclaim that the hour of reckoning has struck for the All the newspapers avoided re- "plutocracies in their dotage."
your
There
the
GIBRALTAR
Lord Austin Resigns cent in forms of sterling
Chairmanship
The increase in merchandise im- ports was 26.3 per cent. In terms of the Hongkong dollar and of 28.0 per
Exports during last month increas- ed by 10:
per
cent and 20 per cent. rospectively.
Remarkable Figures
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