AIR MAIL REPORTS OF WAR
Brief Messages From Our Own Correspondent
100 BOY SCOUTS SHOT.
LONDON, May 17.
MILITARY SITUATION
REVIEWED.
ANALYSIS OF THE FIGHTING
Koop Your Eyes On Lille Operations
At this time of day it is hardly necessary to warn people against overrating the possible results of battle succossca.
Tuesday,
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Further High Command Appointments
Vice-Chief OF L.G.S.. Nominated
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter). -The War Office announces that Lieut. General Robert Hadden Haining, G.O.C., Western Com- mand, since 1989, is appointed Vice-Chief of Imperial General
Staff.
With regard to the following story, the Boy Beeste Association says that they have no desire to circulat, atro elty stories but are satisfied that the dreadful splode described is true. it fa sisted that agents of the Gestapo have been pursuing the Felish Scouts
General Sir Henry Jackson is since the conquest of Poland. They herded more than a hundred of them Especially since the invasion appointed 0.0.C., Western, Com- in front of the Town Hall at Bydgost, Norway and the early operations in mand.
Major-General B.KT. Page, Com young boys aged between 10 and 10, wearing elther Scout uniforms or school Holland and Belgium we have bad
of this tolly and mander of the 18th Division, clothes, and set a machine gun object-lessons opposite them. A peleat forced his way presumably have learnt by now that oppointed Chief of General Staff, ovex-Home Forces, with the acting rank of over-optimism through the crowd and with crueld both
Lieutenant-General. held aloft gave Benediction while the pessimism are ridiculous. Scouts knelt in prayer. The priest was
Yesterday the War Office announce removed by fores, the soldiers manned the machine gun while the Scouts sang the Polish National Anthem, and then cries of "Long Live Poland." Even some of the Germans could not bear to
King George Upsets Berlin
Violent Reaction To
May 28, 1940.
EGYPT IS PREPARED
...
Armies Take Up Their
Empiro Broadcast
Action Stations / LONDON, May 27 (Reuter),
CAIRO, May 27 (Reuter).-- The Berne newspaper, "Bosler Nachrichten" states that Berlin The extent of Egypt's prepared- has reported an unprecedented es la shown in a despatch sent and violent reaction in Germany to the B.B.C. by its Middle East correspondent, Mr. Richard jagainst His Majesty the King's Dimblebey from Cairo.
Empire broadcast,
The British Egyption armies have. The newspaper considera that left that city, he says, and have taken
exercised, a profound influence on can only be that His Majesty's words up action stations. world opinion.
The mutorised units of the infantry and aircraft are all ready. They are being added to all the time in man- power and equipment,
Nazis' Delicate Problem The "Gazette de Lausanne" says that a
a delicate point for the Germans is to plan the continued supply of
Ready To Last Man The Minister of National Defence munitions and petrol which have anys that, unlike their officers, the been seriously hampered by the private soldiers are not much in- British Air Force.
terested in events on the According to experts, the German Front. troops are using petrol and crude ol
they will encounter
Western
with the defence of their own!
1 begin with this reminder becaused the appointment of General 8 in astronomical quantities to such an rernes ver, they are very much con- the news from France yesterday was the machine gun mowed them down to extremely good, dll hold out in Edmund Ironside, former Chief of extent that
ossibilities and might imperial General Stair, as Comman-serious difficulties if the battle last county have been told that they must calculable
der-In-Chict of Home Forces, and
They almost seem to justify exaggerated witness the dreadful night, and describe hopes. Let us make every possible that of General Sir John Dill as Chief for a long time and with the sameight to the last man and they are
allowance for
adverse of Imperial General Staff. possible developments.--
ed the boy a "iltle heroce,"
BOMBING DESCRIBED
connection with the appointments of
The position yesterday was briefly The Caplain of one of the last Dutch ships to leave Holland arrived in Engus follows (and here I suggest that land and described the indiscriminate those readers who have kept the war bombing of Amsterdam by the Germans, map published in the "Telegraph" Commander-in-Chief of the Home
down the Saturday place it conveniently. in Je wald that all the way Dutch and Belgian coasts they could see front of them): huge fires raging; it was not war but
heer murder.
CIVILIANS MACHINE-GUNNED
In France itself, the main German blitzlujeg has been brought to a com- plete halt.
Line Firmly Held.
The French are fly holding a line that stretches from Sedan, just Gorth of the Luxembourg frontier, to Rethel (on the northern bank of the River Aisne), hence to Lion, across the Serre Valey to La Fere, to St. Quentin and Cambrai.
It is reported on the best authority from Park that the Germans are de-1 liberately machine-gunning people at
They are flying low work in the fields. over town and villages and shooting hard and Indiscriminately. In one case a German bomber flew o low over a tiny village that it was wrecked by the explosion of the bomb it dropped on a farmhouse of the crew of four, one mon was Alled and three captured. To the amazement of the villagers, one of them was their own village pharmacist, who had lived among them for many is
youre without their baving dreamed be
was a German.
Weary groups of refugees trailing Into France relato how they have had no respite from Lomb and machine gun attack during their journey; one man whose arm had been blown off had lost mother and nephew on the rout, and his sister was wounded.
- BOMBING OF CHILDREN
In two towns in Northern France, confirmation processions of boys and girls were bombed and machine-gunned
they were proceeding to church. NINE RAIDS IN ONE NIGHT
·Proiz· Enthusiastic
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter),—In
General Sir Edmund Ironside as
Force, and General Sir John Dill ag Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British press welcomes this as evidence that the right men have have been chosen to fill these post- tions.
and
The puasibility of a German Inva- sion is faced by the British press.
However, the "Yorkshire Post" says that if Hitler invades Britain he will be taking one of
the greatest gambling risks of his career.
General Sir Edmund Ironside's task will be one of extreme difficulty
responsibility, says "The Times" Between Cambral and Arras there habitual coolness, was the inevitable General Sir John Dill, with his a break in the French lines, through which the German Panzar choice for the position of Chief of (mechanised) divisions are pouring the Imperial General Staff.
The "Dally Mail says that we to the coast and at the same time isolating the Allied forces in the ex-realise to the full extent the peril and treme north of France and Belgium we are facing it. from those in the soulis,
Position in North
North of this German bottle-neck, the lines of the Allles northern armies runs like a crude letter W from Dunkirk, to St. Omer, to Bethune, to La Bnssee, to Valenciennes, then back to Courtrai, thence lo Ghent and up to the North Sea count somewhere near the Belgian-Dutch frontier.
Victory Iles that way. We have also had all the warning we need about Äith columns and have taken
Intensity.
willing to do so. Another factor which is generally regarded_ns_decisive_is_the_morale of Desert-living-in-huts and tents and They are now out in the Western the troops.
In Germany it is believed that the oven in the open.
Belgians troops can be conceded to tenacity of the French, British and nobody in the world.
Air Raids On Britain, Lies
Nazi Imagination Running Riot
of
On Door-Step Of Trouble They are on the door-stop trouble. They are ready to deal with any invision from fand or from the air.
Or
Internal precautions are the sole concern of the Egyptian Government which has taken full sleps to deal with
"Quislings"
Afth any columnists.
The
la easily depressed population or cheered by the new. Therefore there is a benevolent censorship over both the incoming and outgoing news. The people have, however, been LONDON, May 27 (Rautor), receiving-full-information about the On Sunday, the Germans put Allied situation on the Western Front out certain lies about having and the fact that the struggle is a bombed British aerodromes in stem one has done much to tone-up the public opinion and morale which is certainly high. England.
These lies are growing by leaps and bounds.
The latest version says that several Channel ports have been bombed,
Entirely Untrue
These stories are entirely untrue. The people on the south coast ore
Hard Up For Good Story
the necessary measures to destroy in a position to discount them from Latest "Funny" Canard
them.
More Men
From Canada
their own knowledge.
On Friday night, as already announced, a few bombs fell in the country districts of Yorkshire, East Anglly and Essex.
Little damage was done and only eight civilians were injured.
Tin Quota Up
To 100%
By Goebbels
Lino
NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuter) Omcials of the United States stated that they had not been offcial- report of the Berlin ly informed published in newspapers here sug- gesting that the safety of the refugee liner, President Roosevelt, is threa- tened.
They added that they were not go- ing to wireless the ship's master about the report, which was issued by the German official news agency
Committed Announces in Berlin...
New Decision
Trustworthy
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Boston,
The people of Nancy, France, were For the present we can ignore the kept awake all night on May 15 by nine Panzar divisions which are pouring separato air raide, and an undisclosed
Immediate Expansion number of people were killed and through the breach in our lines be- wounded. Twenty-nine German bombers tween Arras and Cumbral and are
Of Fighting Forces swooped on a Belgian town, released striking towards the coast. Once dozens of high explosive and incendiary thin breach is closed they are com- bombs on crowds of civilians and re-pletely isolated and.can be mopped OTTAWA, May 27 (Reuter) -fogens-with-appalling—effect.—British | up-at-leisure.
|--Mr. Mackenzie King, the war correspondenta thers helped to The Germans are trying fiercely 10 rescua paspils from the debria, including
The German report said that a little boy trapped in a cellar, who widen this breach: the French are Prime Minister, announced in
In source" smiled at them despite his wounds and slowly but surely closing it. Simul- Parliament to-day that there
"trustworthy (Reuler).- inceulisly our artillery and bombers would be an immediate expan- LONDON, Mumion Massachuscita, revealed that the Brl- anid-"Merel,-Messieurs
are massacring the German infantry sion of Canadian military and air circles are not surprized by the Inish were planning to blow up the units in the narrow pocket in the
decision to liner during the return trip Arras-Cambral-Valenciennes triangle, forces to meet the critical situa-ternational Committee's
If the situation remained static tion in Europe.
raise the quota from 30 per cent. to United States when it will be loaded
with Americans. 100 per cent.
It is considered that the market is The British would then charge it thus arousing American unlikely to be materially aftecled. It te timent to bring the United States is pointed out that actual tion is not affected by the increase into the war on the Allies' side.
of mino-head as the building up stocks has been proceeding for some
TREACHERY IN HOLLAND
Filteen thousand Germans in posses-
alon of Dutch uniforms and established; in the chlaf towns in Holland were the key factor in Fifth Column action in Holland, ays a Dutch official now in Paris. Gorman transport planes drop- ped 10,000 German soldiers in Dutch uniform and about 2,000 other para- chutists. The Ofeial further says that Dutch Nasis and Communists began to do all in their power to help this fored whose tactics constated mainly of the banest kind of trickery. They
would march through the streets singing Duteh songs, and
Boon as 44 crowd hnd
In the areas outlined above, the It is proposed that the increases German offensive would develop will include veterans in, reserve in Gira war of stitition in trenches, addition to the Veterans Home Guard,
something_the invaders must avoid 'at all cost, slaen it was this type of warfare that lost thorn the World 1914-18. The billskriet War of must go on or fall.
Now Panzar Offensive
May 27
the
time. Also the easiness of price in 600,000 More Men
A-
To Register
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).—An-
which was announced last week.
Rifle Battalions Rife battalions are to be recruited for the fourth division of the Cunt dlan Active Service Force.
the
few days may prove. About 5,000
past Canadians, whose
cient
depressing to discount any names are already on the Canadian effect of the Committee's recom- So, in order to develop the bottle-R.A.F. Ist, will be called up for immendation to the signatory govern-
mediate duty. Reserves of the collected would open fire on them with neck between Cambrai and Arras the Veteran Home Guard will also be ments to permit shipment against ex-) other 600,000 men will register for a machine gun. Again, if they met Germans have suddenly launched a Dutch offcer, their leader would salute him and then turn and sheet him in new Panzar offensive in the south called up immediately. the back. The Dutch troops fought and have simultaneously launched a gallantly, but their heroism was largely great infantry drive from the north. negatived by the black treachery
In the south their Panzar units, their own countrymen.
operating from the vicinity of Arras, toworde ANOTHER METHOD
are pushingnorhiwards Lille. They claim to have passed through Lens and to have reached La
of
A solid phlanox of German
in-
The Ministry of Information has warned the public that German pro. Bussee.. paganda stories, intended to undermine confidence, are in the woxt weeks bound than hitherio. Tho German wireless has already Announced to Dutch listen ers that the panic and fear of invasion is a great both in Britain and Franco that the King of England and the Franch Government are preparing to leave for Canada.
POISONED SWEETS TOO
to be launched in greater volume oven, fantry is also pushing on ille from
Among a party of Duted réfugees: arriving at a South coast harbour were several expectant mothers and a large number of very young children, mem- bors of the Dutch Parliament, Journ-i alists and a burgamaater. It was sinted
streets with poisoned
the opposite direction, that is, up the River Lys and River Scheldt in Bel- gium, and clalms to have reached Courtrai and Menin.
The situation if these two armies meet in or near Lille may be serious for the Allied forces, chiedy Belgian and British, which are in the sector and Cambral, for they would then be entirely surrounded.
The Fremier said that the factories will work 24 hours a day to produce equipment for additional forces.
Britain's Big Food Scheme
Reassuring Review By Lord Woolton
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter)- Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, announced to-day that the country taining areas, each with one main and one "buffer" depot of food, mak- ing 1,800 depots in all.
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LABOUR SUPPLY BOARD MEETS
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).-Tho
Labour Supply Board, whose forma
tion was only announced over the has already held its first week-end, meeting at the Ministry of Labour,
held The meeting was
the under Chairmanship of Mr. Ernest Bevin.
The Board will carry out any necessary measures to ensure that the Labour Supply will make fullest usC of the man-power and woman-power of the country.
the
between Valenciennes, Courtrai, Lile has been divided into 800 self-con- Aircraft Equipment
Would Widon Breach
that the Germans bad sprayed the At the same me the Germans chocolates and would widen the breach between the that German reildents used their hoones Allled northern armies and the French as baren of attack on neighbours. Re- fugees landed at another port said that armies in the south.
various districts.
The main northern army would be
These 800 areas, said Lord Woolton, had sufficient supplies of essentials few to feed the population for a weeks without any help from out- alde.
Scheme Revealed Nari parachute troops had been found
Lerd Woolton's announcement is wearing buttons on which were plans facing the Germans on three sides,
scheme carefully-prepared
to He said that young with its back to the North Sea, along a German women were also dropped by a line from the French coast south of ensure an effective maintenance of parachute who had worked in Holland Dunkirk to
to Lille,
thence back to food distribution In the event of and were able to give valuable informa: Ghent along the north bank of the enemy attacks, troops.
the Belgo-Dutch frontier.
that Instead of keeping huge stores ཡ་ In effect, the Germans would of foodstuffs in ports until needed pinch off the entire area between and thus causing congeallon, besides Lille and Valenciennes, and would exposing them to the rak of enemy widen the breach along the French netion, the foodstuffs are now being preschi stored at a very large number of breach frontier extending from Sedan to Valen- smaller centres. olennes) by this distance. South
tion as to locailties to other parachute River Lys and thence to the coast at The broad basis of the scheme
ITALIAN PRESS
MORE SOBER
ROME, May 27 (Reuter) The
Italian press to-day shows signs that
a little more attention is being made!
of Sedan, of course, the French hold the entire frontier.
Summarising, the altuation on the
to a more sober appreciation of the whole is better at the time of writing
situation,
I
Writing in the "Telegrafo", Signor
than at any time since the blitzkrigg storted,
We have the Germans held tightly Ansaldo mys that the war-will not on the main fronts, and the break in end tinlil Germany has Invaded and
between Cambrai and our lines captured Brifols.
Arras has decreased from a depth of Signor Gayda does not think that 25 miles to 10 miles. the war le near its end,
PARIS May 270): (UP) ——The Foreign Orice announces a series of
· appolnuments and a minor reshuffling of French diplomata in Europe and i South (America.
CRIPPS ON WAY TO MOSCOW
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).—Sir Stafford Cripps has already started on the first stage of his journey to Moscow,
The reply received from the Soviet So long as this line holds and Union about the visit of the Dritish the breach is not permitted to ex-mission to discuss the Anglo-Soviet Lend we cry forget about the Ger- trade relations is understood to have man mechanised units who have favoured the proposal. Penetrated to the coast because, However there are certain detalla unless they are rapidly reinforces, which have to be examined on the they will soon be mopped up. spot, "", But the situation north 'and" mouth Nevertheless, Sir Stafford Cripps
has alrendy left for Moscow. of Lilte bears watching.",
Production
LONDON, May 27 (Router),——Lord | Beaverbrook, Minister of Adreraft Production, announces that he basi appointed an Emergency Committee: to deal with the production of air- craft equipment.
June.
This will be done under an order which has just been issued.
The order requires that the 1911 class register on June 15 and the -1010-class-register_an_June_22.
STOCK MARKET
· REPORT
the
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says: The week has opened with market still unchanged at dull.
Buyers
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Trams $10
Electrics $59
Cements $15
H.K. Govt 4% loan $102
Salce
Docks Rta $41⁄2 Trums $16/16% Electrics $5914
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Allan Gordon Smith, and Mr. F. J. E, Brake.
The Committee has full authority.
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Me. Moffat is at present Chief of the European Division of the State Department. He accompanied · Mr. Sumner Welles to Europe.
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