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apanese ALLIES HOLD UP
Planes Shot Down
Soquel To Big Raid
Ón Chungking
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH CHUNGKING, May 27 (UP), Two of the Japanese bombers which raided Chungking yester day were shot down by Chinese pursult plancs, it was officially announced Inst night.
One of the Japanese bombers-fell near Chienklang, 120 miles east of Chungkin.
An official announcement states that 136 Japanese bombers partiel- pated in yesterday's raids on Sze chtaan province,
CHUNGgking Claime
INVADERS
FROM PAGE ONE
the French
In
as an average while average is practically as high. addition the Belgian, Dutch, Polish and Czech air forces are in action,
The Czechs alone claim to have barged 11 Messerschnidis. -At this phase. of the operations," the French military analyst to-day concluded that Hiller is using 110 divisions between the North Sea
and the Swiss frontier but only five armies aro in action in the battle of Flanders and in Holland, At the same time Germany's total
Belgium and Luxembourg,
uge
or
200 divisions army strength is set at of which the value of nearly half is considered to be mediocre because the troops are either over untrained.
This German army has been ex- frorn 21 normal panded rapidly divisions and one blinded division formed in 1034.
and
May 27, 1940.
Story Of Nazi
Warship's Fate
WHEN the submarine: Spearfish attacked the Ad- Miral Scheer, Germany's crack pocket battleship list- ed immediately.
Our
underwater
men had
made a direct hit.
That was the news they told when they came home to a British port.
John Lieut. Commander
Нау Forbes spotted the big ship and ordered the attack, told his men they had scored a hit as three destroyers escorting the battleship bore down on them, writes a correspondent.
It is now known that 1935 saw May 27 (Central).four other divisions created, of which Two Japanese planes, and a heavy another was blinded. In 1936 six bomber and the other a fighter, were normal and one blinded visions
formed. shot down over Chungking yesterday were
In the succeeding "We cheered like mod," they Bald. Ever since the beginning of afternoon in a furious air battle.
years 8,6 and 8 normal divisions plus The Japanese sent over 70 machines 40 reserve
war they had been waiting to see divisions were formed the heaviest concentration since last September 40 Landwehr
the German Navy, and suddenly start of the present "bombing | divisions the
they found they were in created by general
middle of 1. season."
mobilisation and 60 training divisions
depot They cracked open the Scheer. divisions and for the instruction of But at the time they did not know conscripts.
what they had been firing at.
One of the Chinese pilots, Kae Yu sing, was the hero of the day, le accounted for one of the Japanese raiders after a relentless duel. His own machine was riddled by machine- gun fire.
king.
were
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were
up
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the
"We know. five minutes later," they said, "and we knew we would
✔ be in for trouble,"
The Fun Begon.
Nazi Reinforcements The official French War Ofee that the Kao Yu-sing shot down the Japan-analyst reported to-night use machine over Siaokwanyinchino, German High Command had with-
The destroyers came after them, drawn divisions from the
forrard. one aft. Then the 04 kilometres south-east of Chung-frontier and from the Siegfried Line tive
of "fun" begun. the Battle liself to throw into The other machine which was shot
Depth charges were dropped. down, a heavy bomber, met the cross-Finders in an effort to prevent the
Commander Forbes ticked thein off! at Artois. Allies closing the gap Are of several Chinese pursuit planes
troops on a a sheet. The arrival of these fresh and came down in a cloud of smoke to reinforce the very tired Germans, Above the Chien River.
who have been in continuous. action for 17 days without a break and with
FRANK SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT
FROM PAGE ONE
Atlantic run, but insists that the Citadel is still held by the French.
All Channel and North Sea ports are still in Allied hands, the analyst claimed.
"It is true that the Germans have continued lo force new blinded columns through the Artois pocket south of Bapaume and have headed towards the north-east," the analyst sald.
Numbers Exaggerated "As these columns head towards the Channel they are attempting to throw their right wing behind the front held by the Allied armies of the north.
The major question just now is to determine the exact quantity and importance of these German de- ments which have passed through Artois
serious revision of the estimates now leads us to conclude that we exaggerated the number of
these forces.
only tinned food and almost no sleep. beards growing on their chins.
was
felt chiefly along the northern edge of the pocket along the Lys and Eschut rivers.
It was there that the Germons hammered the Allies most of to-day and yesterday.
Nazis Completely Checked SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, May 20 (UP)-According to a high French military source, the Allies have met with considerable defensive success as a result of inst night's battle.
The German advance in the north has been completely checked with heavy losses to the enemy.
The Belgian Army thwarted three German attacks on Courirai.
confirmed that the It has been
French still hold Boulogne and Calals, Heavy fighting is in progress south of these Channel ports.
“TELEGRAPH'S”.
WAR MAP
As a correspondent has kindly pointed out; the full page map of the Western Front reproduced on the "Telegraph on Saturday has in-
correct
סנן
on a
one
None of them hit. So to-day, the crew of the Spearfish came back to land with oll on their faces, and soft There is no me to shave, or even battle like this. They eat in
been looked as if they had
isinnd. Anyway, desert sees us but the fish," they chuckled.
"Oh, the Scheer was a lovely ight, a lovely picture," they said. "But she wasn't so lovely when she listed. When we got her we feit we
bit of our own back." hud got a
Commander Forbes went to see his wife and two children in their house at the edge of the sea nearby. Mrs. Forbes had not worried.
That doesn't seem to help," she said. "The only thing to do is to walt for him to come in at the gate." "Torpedoed Her All Right"
I asked Charles, Commander Forbes's nine-year-old son, If he was glad to see his father back,
"Yes, I are," he said.
"You mean 'I am," said an elder girl.
"Well, I'm glad," said Charles.
Commander Forbes could hardly keep his eyes open. "Wo tor- pedoed-the-Scheer ou right he said. "I thought she hod gone. She was going over when we were forced down."
He had come off the Spearfish shaven, brushed and immaculate.
dhe-said. boundaries, Inasmuch ar y men were grand,” "There are six times as many Alsace and Lorraine are shown inside "They enjoyed Il. It was work that German soldiers lined up along the walls of the 'pocket' as those who Germany Instead of being French the Navy's been looking for for a
territory.
long time. They've been eager for got through, and the majority of the
The map, with certain modifica-action." latter never got beyond Arras, Llons, was based on a large-scale map This was his first trip as comman-
"It can be said with a maximum of the dghting-zones-in-the-World-der-of-the-Spearfish... of certainty that nothing but blinded
nits have forced their way through
War
the
Our to
r better one," he said.
before Alsace and Lorraine "And I could not have hoped for the gap towards the coast. This ex-reverted to their Motherland. plains the form the Allied operations Processing department omitted
make necessary modification in are now taking,
True, the situation has lost none this sector. of its gravity. The Germans are now simultaneously attacking the flank and front of our armies in the
Readers who are retaining the copies as published on Saturday, or those who Intend Lo purchase additional art paper coples (which north and, at the same time, they are on sale at 30 cents each) are re- are throwing more tanks into the quested to note this discrepancy. At mad rush for the Channel porta the
the same time
"Telegraph"
This
Is possible because a gop
still.exists in our Ines between apologises to its many French friends.
Bapaume and Peronne. Otherwise,
our front is continuous.
"On the other hond, to-night's PROCESSION OF
re-examination of the situation fully permits feeling "of confidence. Ince yesterday."
LATE NEWS
CAR CRASHES
He Seals His Letters In Chinese
"Joy Guest" Is Englishman's Name
THERE is one Englishman in London who seals his letters with his name in Chinese.
He is
A procession of four cars proceed
Mr. Robert Hart Maze, ing along Castle Peak Road yesterday formerly an officer in the Churiese morning provided a chapter of ac
Customs Inspectorate, and a nephew cidents which formed the subject of
of Sir Robert Hart, the celebrated a police report this morning.
When the first car stopped sud-head of the Chinese Customs Service. He is now relined, und lives in Nor- denly near the nine-mile stone, the drivers of the following vehicles wood. were unable, according to the report to the police, to pull up in time.
The second car in the line was Mrs. Poole, of Kennedy driven she pulled up without hitting but the third car, the front vanice,Skinner, of the driven by Mr. L Telephone Company, crashed into the rear of Mrs. Poole's car.
Town.
A fourth car, driven by Mr. Mcd- hurst, crashed into Mr. Skinner's car, No one was injured in the series of mishaps.
MINESWEEPING ·
Mr. Hart Maxe's Chinese name, bestowed on him by his uncle, is transliterated Mel Le Pin Mei is the surname, chosen because it approximates to Maze. Le means "Joy" and Pin "a guest." The name is regarded as particularly Jucky by the Chinese people, for everyone is delighted to have joy As a guest.
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year. every "By the end of this LONDON, May. 28 (British Wire- less)The Secretary of the Admir-existing unit of the Regular Army modern be equipped with elty announces that HM. minesweep will Ing trawler Charles Boyes has been weapons.
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