NARVIK'S ALLIED TROOPS
FALL DESCRIBED
Allied Victory After
24-Hour Assault LONDON, May 30 (Reuter), "Eye-witness” telegraphing from "somewhere in Norway
final attack on
describes the *Narvik. ~
an
EVACUATED
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the great courage and fierce energy of our soldiers and the new, glory with which they are adorning" our flags."
Although the British, French, Dutch and Belgian troops in coastal areas appear to have been successfully evacuated, there yet re-
Berlin Admission
thỏ
of
mains the task of evacuating the troops who are fighting their way to the const-from-the-Lille-front-and. Narvik-was-captured-from-the from the extreme north... Germans yesterday after assault which lasted for 24 Berlin reports which earlier claim-
ed that the entire Allied army hours.
700,000 had been trapped, now admit that evacuation through Dunkirk and casualties have reduced the number sull remaining.
Yesterday's Ogures gave the total number already evacuated as 500,000, leaving 250,000 in the field, either the fighting a rearguard netion to coast from Lille or holding the line
in and around Dunkirk, open
An urgent "United Press” message from Paris, received at 9 o'clock this morning, stated it had been officially
British warships shelled the German position while the French, Polish and Norwegian
the troops closed in on
town from the north, south and cast.
fleet began The British
their bombardment at 10.20 am. At 10.45 am, the French troops in military landing craft crossed the fjord under fire and successfully landed on A headline near Narvik.
They deployed in the hills and at tacked through the strongly defended -wooded-country Polish
Troops In Action
Meanwhile the British kept up the bombardment of such targets as presented themselves.
paced that most of the lost army
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 31, 1940.
***DRAMATIC TALES BRITISH
King's Cousin Killed In Action
LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).—Lord Frederick Cambridge, who has been reported missing in France, Is now known to have been killed in action.
He_was_a_cousin_of_the. King, and brother and keir to the Marquis of Cam- bridge, who is also in service in France.
+
Lord Frederick Cani- bridge, who was 32 years of nge, was a captain in the Coldstream Guards and was formerly A.D.O to the Governor-General of Aus- ·
tralia.
DİSMAY IN AUSTRIA
of General Rene Prioux had escaped through the Nazi trap in the Lille area in a desperate logo which carried them completely through the German lines towards the Channel.
Two these divisions
of
have already The Polish troops were similarly reached Dunkirk from Lille and are protected by the Navy and crossed embarking under intenso air raids, the hills to the southi of the port, while the remainder of the original They then opened a vigorous attack.eight divisions are nearing the coastal-From reliable sources on the
The Norwegians were then work-port. ing in from the cast.
Occasional Verey lights told the. Navy of the positions of the Allied forces and barrages were laid down
Accordingly.
Norvik was finally taken at TT:20- a.m. yesterday.
Allics Move South LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).— There are British forces south of the town of Bodo which is 120 miles south of Narvik,
northward they are opposing a
by the Germans from the Narasos area.
Naxi Trap Fails the Nazi trap
This message seems to indicate that
ni Lule has failed Earlier the French military spokes- Linan at announced: "The situation in Flanders la still critical, but our armics are continuing their orderly und energietic fight towards the const.”
Another military source in Paris told United Preas that the bulk of the German forces were surging to wards the Lille sector in an effort to
and French forces who were
Families Bereaved By Nazi Blitzkrieg LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).
German-Yugo-Slav frontier. it was learned today that the morale in Austria has rapidly fallen since the beginning of the Western offensive
| "This is partly due to the fact that many Austrians are fighting there. It has been learned from the wound- ed who are
pouring into Austria every day that the German miccesses were only gained at enormous cost of life.
Most of the wounded arriving in
|
They have kept up a Briti to the encirclement of the Austria are native of other parts of
magnificent resistance in the traditions of the British Army,
best
Scottish, Welsh and Irish regiments are concerned in this battle.
The Germans sustained very heavy Casualties and are now nursing healthy respect for the British troops.
Led By French General LONDON, "May,30 (Reuter)-It is learned that a French General com- manded the Allied troops which cap- tured Narvik.
Several hundred
prisoners
were
trapped there.
German
In their smash through to Dunkirk from the Lille sector, General Prioux's Army broke the ring of steel near Poperinghe. Then, protected in the rear by tanks and soldiers who fought a constant rear- guard action, and preceded in front by a screen of other tanks, the escap- Ing divisions moved swiftly towards the front,
Navy Dogs Its Part LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)—It is officially nnnounced that British warships are giving all possible help to the British and French land forces French operating on the
that are
The Germans who not away, ye treated down the railway towards Sweden.
Naval circles here say that, the const under heavy enemy pressure." Germans have once again shown The warships are giving supporting their Ignorance of sen warfare, and covering fire to the troops, im- The purpose of the German oc-peding the enemy's movements and cupation appears to have been to inflicting considerable punishment on the tip the Allied detachments in Germon advanced forces. Norway which would be needed-on-
The wounded-and-a-large number the Western Front. They then in- of other elements have already been tended to surround and destroy then safely withdrawn, These operations
are being conducted
The Allies have defented both these
the Reich.
In most cases, the Austrians are not aware whether their own husbands and friends have been killed or wounded:
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Belgian armies and naval ratings who had also arrived from France.
"It has been simply hell, they said, "but we are getting off bays who have stood in the triangle and re- sisted the worst that the Germans could do to them, and, believe me, the Narls don't love you.
were
EXPORT
TRADE
Encouraging Figura Revealed
LONDON, May 30 (British Wireless)The President of the Board of Trade told the House of Commons to-day that
"Our airmen have done magnificent work, but it's volume we need. From the minute we reached France, wo continually bombed and machine-gunned from the air the Agures of the British_export hospital ships, troops and every-trade were · very “theaurazing. thing
keeping in mind the extent of the heavy industries'engaged on war work.
swam
Belgians Too we were.. hit we "When ashore, but when the boat did not go back we swam back again to take her out of the harbour. But she turned turtle and we had to swim again. Some of us were swimming for hours
The export of cotton goods in April reached the highest figure since 1987. Woollen goods and before being picked up. by British other textiles, pottery and glass warships, All of us were almost reached the highest for ten naked, and we had no food since yes- years. The figures for cutlery, terday and no sleep for the past three hardware, chemicals and rugs days.
"It is not only the British troops Wore highest for 20 years.
we are bringing off but the French and Belgians too. The Belgians don't want to give up fighting."
Five Belghan officers in the party said they were astounded when the order came to cease fighting.
We don't intend to cease fighting on Leopold's order and there are thousands of other Belgian soldiers of the same opinion," declared one. "The British and French are still
making a magnificent show in the
north,
"If only they would give us more planes, we could tell the Germans a different story. As it is they have got as much as they have given, but elve not been bombing and ma-
|chine-gunning men in the water.”
REARGUARD ACTION
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Dunkirk and Lille where the French forces are driving their way through, heavily attacked from the rear flanks. The French front along the Somme to the Aisne and from the Aisne to the Maginot Line appears to be quiet. Substantial British troops are be- behind this front with the French.
Boys Being Called Up Another source of discontent is the recent mobilisation of many boys tween the ages of 15 and 18. They are receiving military training.
The troops who are still serving in southern Austria are between 35 and 45 years of age,
sume
They are well equipped with ar- moured vehicles which can given the German armoured columns a good battering. They are good at batter- turn their attention that ing they
way.
units
com-
Creditable Performance
Sir Andrew Duncan added 'that he' was not overlooking the gap between exports-and-imports. This was..still very big Indeed. But he was entitled to say that regarding March and April exports, at least a beginning had been made to a very creditable performance.
The invasion by Germany of Norway and Denmark with the re- sult of rendering the Balile fargely inaccessible to our trade resulted in the loss of 'markets amounting lo len per cent. of the normal ex- port market.
With the invasion of Holland and Belgium, Britain had lost a further five per cent of the normal-export market.
Switch-Ovor Noaded
be
This would to some extent made up by our ability to trade in markets from which those countries are now excluded, but such a switch- over must take time.
Although at present Britain must be prepared to turn over a great deal of the effort formerly engaged on ex- port trade to munitions production, Sir Andrew Duncan emphasised the need of concentrating os the export trade, which can still be prosecuted without endangering the war effort, and stressed the need of intensified cool production for expert
He Stabbed Co-Worker
Drama Of Noodle Factory Men
The civilians are not allowed to approach the frontler where the suards have been strengthened.
British Troops On Somme LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).-The Anti-Naxi Activity [Ministry of Information announces According to the
sources,that British troops are now operating Communist during the black-out in eastern of the Somme.
placards were posted with the French in the sector south-
Corinthia, Handbills have been The message does not state, whether brought back to Austria by the these British soldiers were
Chan Mo-tam and So Hung-mo wounded. These handbilly give evacuated-from-Flanders.
anti-Nazi activity.
To-day's official French
worked side by side in the Pak evidence of
One show's a drawing of numerous munique or the operations on The She noodle factors until So grave-yards and weeping women, southern front states that fighting is accused Chan of shirking his Underneath is printed an extract progressing favourably on a greater part in carrying the noodles up.
There is no change on the situation the hill to dry.
They
end In the Aisne or along the Maginot
quarrelled
argued Line.
through February and March. In the middle
the of March, Chan had nearest blacksmith make him a dagger and he carried it with_bim for fourteen days.
plans because of their control of sea and night with coolaselessly day from one of Hitler's speeches which part of the Somme front,
communications which enabled them to land and withdraw at will.
Hospital Ships Sunk
Dastardly Work By
Nazi Bombors
determination in
the face of fierce opposition, parti- reads: "I will give every German his cularly from the air.
Hittle plot of ground."
The German High Command claim. to-have-inflicted very large losses upon naval unlis and transports which they profeel, As usual, these bear no
relation to
to facts.
Operations of this nature cannot be carried out without losses, and the destroyers Grafton, Grennde and Wakefield and certain small auxi- liary craft have been lost. One small transport, the Abukir of 689 tons, has been sunk,
The spirit and conduct of all con- cerned are beyond praise,
Hollywood's War Films
Eight Studios Hard
At Work
HOLLYWOOD, May 30 (UP). -Nazi Storm Troopers are The operations are continuing-- sweating-under-arc-lights-and- Claim Capture Of General prisoners are grimacing behind LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)-An barbed-wire in eight cinema official German news agency claims studios where war pictures are that General Priaus, Commanding were the First French Army, has been in production.
captured at Steenvorde, ricar Cassel. The news agency also claims that many other high French officers have been captured,
LONDON, May 30 (Reuter). -Two British hospital ships have been sunk by German bombers and two others attacked, it is officially announc- ed.
were
The two that were bombed were at Dieppe. They clearly marked with Red Crosses painted in the usual colours, white and green, so that there was no possibility of a mistake. The Air Ministry to-day announc ed that German bombers attacked a
Diplomatic Staffs Safe
New Situation In Belgium
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
TOKYO, May 30 (Domei) The foreign diplomatic staffs in Belgium and the Netherlands are apparently safe, according to advice received by the Japanese It is notable that every one of these Foreign Office from the Japanese productions is on anti-Naz! lines.
representatives They depict such historical incidents diplomatic as Holland's collapse, the persecutionBrussels, the Hague and. Ant- of the Jews, fifth column activities, werp. skl-troopers and the fighũng at sea.
Berlin's Latest SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, May 30 (UP)-The Ger
One studie is re-issuing "The Con- man Press now charging that the fessions of a Nazi Spy" with a new British Expeditionary Force started ending. This time, parachute troops
will be seen in this film. its evacuation of Flanders several
Charlie days before King Leopold copitulated. alm, "The Dictator," will be released
Chaplin's
long-awaited The Voelkischer Boedischer"
says:
hospital ship in the English Channel | "The 'British forces were transport-later in the summer.
on Wednesday night. A British re connaissance plane of the Coastal Command saw the attack and chased the bombers into the cloud.
Port-Holos Smashed
Then, on April 1, he went up the hill, sat down near the Pak She tem ple and waited for So Hung-mo to pass. It was just turning dusk.
Six-Inch Stab Wound
When So came down Chan put a six inch stab-wound in his "right thigh, made smaller wounds in his head, elbow and knee.
Hungaricelli and rattans, bundles gashed his hand badly fa tearing the dogger from Chan.
400
who was carrying a
That finished the fight. Chan went back to his hut to sleep, So Hung-mo crawled
yards to the village. Doctors at Cheungchau hospital at feared he might die and transferred
him to Hongkong.
Chan Mo-tam was still in his hut when
arrested him the next police morning.
The Counsellor at the Japanese Embassy in Brussels reported to-day that the Belgian people in Brussels had been shocked at the reported copitulation of King Leopold. They fate. are now apparently resigned to their Diplomat's Conference
Gas and electricity are still un- available in the capital, but the water VATICAN CITY, May 30 (Reuter), supply has been maintained. His Holiness the Pope is expected. Antwerp, reports the Japanese to make a speech when he receives consul in the port, to only slightly. the Cardinals on Sunday,
damaged.
Ing themselves to safety even before. the Belgians laid down their arms.
The foreign diplomatic corps in LONDON, May 30 (British Wire- The "Nachtausgabe says: "Natur- less) The importance, of Industrial Brussels held a conterence on May ally, nothing was sald by England production in the national effort, for 22 to discuss the future situation. and France about English troops, as which the present crisis calls, was The meeting decided to subject the One bomb fell very close to the already officially admitted by a Bri-indicated in the House of Commons diplomatic staffs and their properties
tish
when ship, covering it with form.
embarking for England to-day
the Parliamentary to the protection of the German mill- Another hospital ship, which
last week."
Secretary of Labour announced that tary authorities. In future all over- arrived at the south coast -to-day |---| Naxi Report On Dunkirk Raid the number of men released from the seas by diplomats will be transmitted with B.E.F. wounded on board, had BERLIN, May 31 (UP)The Ger- army for return to the essential in-via Berlin by permission of the Ger- its port-holes amashed and its funnels man High Command has made no dustries was equivalent to two divi man Commander-in-Chief peppered with machine-gun fire. special announcement regarding the slons.
German planes attacked it at a number of bombing and pursult French port on Wednesday while planes which participated in Fester- wounded were being taken on board, day's ralds on British transporta in Dunkirk, but the force is reported to Machina-Gunned
have comprised two flying corps with LONDON, May 30 (UP).—A high ranking Generais in command. Brillah hospital ship arrived at a
Conservative estimates place the south coast port to day with her ports total at between 360 and 500 bomb- holes on the port side shattered by ers with an equal number of pursuit machine-gun bullets and her supere-planes, malding a total of between 600 tructure damaged.
and 1,000. machines. Members of the crew reported that Thus, the raid on Dunkirk
This appears to be another fabrica- German planer had machine-gunned probably the greatest in history-tion in view of the fact that General the ship as wounded men were being even greater than the recent mass Prioux and his army are reported to carried aboard..
attack of 650 bombers on Sedan.
bave smashed through the Nazi cor- The Channel
don north of Lalle, and the advance Gravesline and Dunkirk, covering guard of his eight divisions had al-
was
area between
at 6 p.m. claimed that General Prloux and several members of his staff had been captured at Steenkoorde, cast of Mt. Cassell, during the fierce fighting north of Lille.
URGES U.S. AID hardly more than 500 square miles ready reached Dunkirk.
.:.
FOR ALLIES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” CAMBRIDGE,
| (the total area of Hongkong in 391 square miles), is probably witnessing the most bitter and bloodiest fighting of the war.
DNB reports that Ipolated units of the Allied forces who were now able to escape the Nazi cordon around the Lille front are now being mopped up. claim that they The Germans
The Germans are making desperate Mas May150 (UP)The President of Harvard efforts to link their Fanzar divisions originally trapped,750,000 British and University. Mr. James D. Conant, operating northwards from Calais French troops, of whom 300,000 were with ** the ** forces converging on members of the BEJ. HBs now ad- urges the United States to give every Dunkirk, thus culling off the entire mitted that this-figure › has been ald to the Allies short of sending man constat area and effectively maroon-considerably reduced by conder
the Atlantic.net The action we propose mighting Alfed troops who are lil and early, vacuations
The German Press neclaims the evontuate in war, but fear of wer is
Another Fabrication no-baals forca mational policy," he
Flanders operations as the "geestest declared.
An Tomelal German announcement victory in hlatory":
inland.
FANLING STARTING TIMES Sunday
OLD COURSE
9.10 A. D. Humphreys, E. Bathurst: 920 K. §. Morrison, L. H. Geare, 9.241, W. Bhewan, A. C. I. Bowker, 9.28 L M. 5, Lloyd, A. 11. Penn.. 953, 3. b, Harrison, J. Linaker, 138 G. C. Worrall, E, T. McMullen. 9.40 G. M. Park, J, T. Bmith. S 945. A. N. Mc Q: A, A, Macfadyen. 0:48 Lieuut Carter. G. T. Harrington. 931 D. Q.-G. Allen, Major Mackenzie, 119364T, MoEWISE? WANDAG, Bhawan.. „10.18 - Cant
A NEW COURSE 10.10 8. H. Dodwell, T, E. Pero 10M COL Newnham, Mylor, Mackenzie.... 10,30, Col. Shackleton, COL Way
Imprisonment-Sentenco~~~~ That was the sequence of events. related by Sergeant Whitcroft at the Southern District Court this morning when Chan Mo-tam pleaded guilty to charges of assault, causing grievous bodily harm and the possession of a Cruttwell sentenced dogger. Mr. him to six months imprisonment on the first charge, two months on the second.
WAR GIFT BY INDIAN PRINCE £50,000 For Two R.A.F.
Fighter Squadrons LONDON, May 30 (British Wireless).A gift of £50,000 by the Nizam of Hyderabad towards the maintenance of two fighter squadrons of the RAF. bearing his name is announced.
In October last, the Nizam 'pre- sented the Air Ministry with a sum of £100,000. This wall' used in the equipment of a new fighter squadron now designated by a number and as the Hyderabad Squadron of the Royal Ale Force.
e King's Appreciation
During the last war, a similar gift by tho Nizaam was used: ---In the equipment of another squadron which still bears the Nizam's.name.
It is for the maintenance of these two
that the Nizam hus squadrons now offered a further £50,000.
A incasace of appreciation has been sent by the King to the Nizam.
Sir Archibald Sinclair and the Air ¡Council havo - also expressed' gratafuil
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