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JAPANESE SUFFER BIG SETBACK IN HONAN Chinese Score Greatest Success Of Hostilities

- FANCHENG, May 13 (Central)-The Japanese multi-preazed Hupeh-Honan drive on Stangyang which gained some initial success early in the month has turned into one of the major disasters since the outbreak of the war.

As a result of this debacle, the Japanese ambition to clear Chinese field forces ip north Hupeh and south Honan and to extend their control to the upper reaches of the Han River has " been definitely shartered.

SUPPLIES CUT

including A Chinese military communique Hupeh,

Chunchwan, released late last night revealed Anchu, Huantan and Maping, hav, Japanese losses even heavier than been' wrested back from the Ja- were estimated in earlier reports panese. The Chinese are reported Authentic check-up showed that to be rapidly pushing southward on Saturday and Sunday. some with Anlu and Yingshan, respec- 20,000 Japanese. consisting of tively 65 and 90 miles northwest About 60 scattered units along of Harkow, as their objectives their extended lines, were round- ed up and wiped out in a sweep- ing counter-drive on all sectors..

One of the greatest

war bauis, the seizure of 64 armour- ed trucks, 333 motor cars, 5 Geld

2,000 war guns, over horses and countless numbers of rifles and rounds of am- monition' was affected. Field despatches from Tsaoying. Tangpel, Tangho. Singeh and other "contres of operation report that hundreds of dead and wound-

A Japanese supply column.com. sisting of 2,000 mule and horse" carta convoyed by infantry and artillery units, was attacked hy Chinese forces near Changshon tien. north of Chungslang, on May 11.

the Part o

supples destroyed by Chinese Are while a quantity was seized by the thin- ese."

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:.

With their 'rear cut on, the JB- panese forces operating in north Hupeh have been experiencing ex- ed Japanese soldiers were picked treme difficulty in obtaining their by the Chinese. West of supplies, and have resorted to the Sinyang, the base of the Japan-use of planes. Supplies dropped ese operations, 4,000 Japanese were from planes" have mostly been cap- surrounded at Miyang 'and practured by the Chinese. tically wiped out.

***

With a view to relaxing Chinese CHINESE ADVANCE

pressure ou the Kichun-Tienenia- -Chinese advance troops are rechen area on the north bank of ported to have reached points only the Yangtze River in east Hupeh, a low miles from the outskirts of more than 1.800 Japanese launched Sayang. The Japanese are rush-a drive a few days ago“ toward Ing reinforcements from Yingshan. Takinpu, south of Kwangtsi, which As a result of repeated Chinese is about "22, miles west of Huang- attacks. number of strategi met. They have been out-danked points around Susten. In north and defeated."

H

THANKS TO RAF.

MILITARY

SITUATION

NOW STABILISED

IS

BRUSSELS, May 13 (Reater) Generally speaking, it can be

said that the military situation which was grave last night, has now been stabilised at the worst points and the German break- through has been held up.

It is believed that the stabilisa-

Lion is due to some degree, to the

work of the Royal Air Force.

The Government' have no inten-

tion of leaving Brussels.

According to information receiv- ed this morning, the Germans succeeded in crossing the railway bridge over the Muese some miles:

LONDON GAZETTE

Second Supplement to the Lon- don Gazette af Tuesday, April 23: WAR OFFICE, APRIL 23

·REGULAR ARMY

Corps of Royal Engineers Lt. Gen. Sir J. Ronald E. Char-

.--,-,",

Chlef Petty Officer George Cock, one of the heroes of the destroyer Hardy, George, who weighs ... 24st.. said that he "sort of floated ashore." "I'm unsinkable," he explained,

Dutch Troops Withdraw

ONLY ACCORDING

TO PLANA

AMSTERDAM, May 13 (Reuter) High Command communione states that German troops have crossed the rivers Meuse and Yssel. Patch frontier troops made a par- tial withdrawal, according to plan. and Dutch aeroplanes bombed, the advancing Gernians,

As there are no lines of defence in the northern province, Dutch troops made an orderly withdrawal troops contacted the enemy in Province Brabant and a number of parachutists who had landed were rendered harmless..

STILL AT LARGE Several Germans who are still at large in the country are being rounded up. Some of them board-

ed a motor bus from which they

attacked the population.

Waalhaven airport in Rotterdam was subjected to heavy Dutch fire and can be considered to have been rendered useless to the enemy. The purging of Rotterdam of German troops is proceeding and the Navy is co-operating: with the troops in the defence of the coun-

nineth of Leige, at the same place | les, K.C.B., CMG., D.Š.O., ret. pay, where they crossed in 1914, and Cal. Cordt., is apptd. Chief Royal | try. also the bridge on the Maastog-Engineer (April) 23); in succession The military Authorities com- Tongres Road in the Lower Albert to Gen. Sir Bindon Blood, G. C.B..pletely control the situation in Canal which is guarded by the Q.C.VO., ret, pay, resigned.

the interior. Ebeneymael Fortress.

NOT LEAVING

+

INFANTRY

The Queen's R.-Lt. J. A. 'R. Freeland to be Capt. (Jan, 28),

Royal Army Service Corps

To pe Lts. (Qr.-Mrs.):-Lt. KQZ-

M... Spaak sald to pressmen yesterday morning: "The situation is serious as we are, faced" by a great army. A terrible battle is Mr.) F. Hyde (Emergency Commin.) only to be expected. The army is aghting with courage and the Al- lled and is most effective, The Government is certainly not leav- Ing Brussels, that is out of the question"

NAZI TANKS DESTROYED LONDON, May 13, (Reuter) A Belgian communique says:

(April 20) Staff Sergt.-Mal. (1st CL.) W. Winder (Feb. 25), with seny. Feb. 4.

Royal Army Ordnance Corps Maj. and St. L-Col. 10.0. 3rd C) W. Cam. M.C.. to be Lt.-Col. 10.0. 2nd C1.) (Feb 14); Sec. L J. B. Strang (from R.A. (TA,)).' to be Lt. (O.M.E, 4th Cl) (on prob. (Sept. 4, 1939) (substituted for notifn in Gazette of Sept. 5,

1939).

Third Supplement to the Lon- don Gazette of Tuesday, April

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 25

REGULAR ARMY

"Lively encounters have taken place along the majority of the kroops positions occupied by our who succeeded in standing their despite the action of ground enemy armoured units, supported tick, M.C., 13 apptd. A.DO, to the by aircraft.

Col. temp. Brig.) G. E. M. Whit-

NAZI

HEAVY

AIR LOSSES

LONDON, May 13 Reuter More than 100 German planes were shot down over Belgium yes- terday by the Allied air forces.

One hundred Nazi parachutists were dropped round Brussels yes- terday morning but they are being dealt with.

anci

There were several air raid warnings in the morning heavy detonations were audible from the centre of the city. "

Some thought they were not bombs but heavy artillery shells falling on the Belgian second de-

fence lines.

Refugees from the Albert Canal region are now appearing in Bray- sels.

The city is quite calm despite the many rumours flying round.

ISTANBUL TAKES

GENERAL

"Unser Herman" Goering

Nazi No. 2

די

................."'AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT WENT WHISTLING DOWN, ON THE GERMAN SEAPLANE BASES AT SYLT ONE NIGHT was a pair of shoes, dropped by a young British gunner with a note to explain:

For Adolf, your Fuhrer. He will wear them out getting away from U

This burst of broad British must frankly say that I had a real bumor contained a strong tincture personal liking for, hlin."""

of brayado. For though some day Few foreigners who have net he may need shoes to make tracks,Į him have falled to fall under the Herr Hitler now has wings to spell of "Goering's 'gusty charm. In make trouble.

that he has served Germany well Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Goering babes) keeps relations smooth with Russia.

"

PLAIN TRUTH ·

has

“But in Italy. It is Goeding who keeps things running with Mus- solini.

The German Air Force driven home this point by taking the lead in speeding up the temp of war-in-the-air. and at least

(He named his daughter one Briton spoke the plain truth after Edda Ciano) Neutral diplo- about the opposing air forces. Air mats prefer to talk to Goering. Marshal Ernest Leste Gossage

rather than to listen to Hitlerian observed that British and Ger- tirades: And the fact that the mans were "only sparring With British Foreign Office always each side sizing up the other." round him willing to listen ac- One of these days, said he, "cities counts for the frequency with and industrial centres may come which "his name is mentioned in in for it too. We ourselves would talk of a new German regime, naturally take offensive action in should Hitler fallior quit) without return."

pelling his whole house down Obvious was Air Marshal Gos- around him, sage's implication that Britain was content to stay on the res ceiving end of the air war, ready

At present Goering's hefty to return a blow for any really shoulders are for many reasons the heavy blow struck by Germany, strongest support of the Nazi re- but not anxious to lead with left, ginie. The Army respects him be- right or chin.

cause he is a soldier and ein Herr. Having no outstanding leader of its own, the Army looks to Coer- ing not only for moral, leadership but as a bridge between it and in- scrutable Adolf Hitler. - -

the

Qbvious, too,.. was reason: the Force conceived, ་ -organized and commanded by burly Field-Marshal. General Hermann Wilhelm Goering is still far stronger than the Royal Air Force, has an edge over RAF, and French Air Force combined.

LIRELY. TO INCREASE

V

STRONG MAN

Hitler is head of the Nazis, but Rudolf Hess is the Party's chief organizer. Goering and Hess are friends, work together against Him:nler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels and other extremists of the Party This edge is likely to increase And never forgotten by either of untii far into 1941, which is why them is the fact that-Hitler named the return of good flying weather Goering as his successor. Hess to and the swelling of the March succeed Goering. moon to full last week left Europe Hitler owes his safety to Hein- anxious about the plans of Her-rich Himmler's Secret Police. But mann Goering.

the Munich beer-hall bombing in- The kind of aerial" warfare Air dicates that Himmler could use his Marshal Gossage had in mind is police for an opposite purpose just one with which Europe became as easily—if Goering, who organiz- familiar in Spain, in Poland. In ed the Gestapo, did not have his Finland. It is war waged beyond own private spies to spy on Him- thelmes, against industry and maler's spies.

transport, and its victims are Most important of all, Goering civilians huddled in city cellars,1s the one Nazi leader the German women and children hiding in people understand and like. They woods, travellers sprawled in dit- worship Hitler in a mystical sort ches along roads and rallway of way. They love Goering and call tracks.

him uner Hermann.”

The one man in Europe who knows best how to ware such a waris Goering, for it was be who first created, with incredi ble speed and eficiency, a machine with which to fight it.

"BRUTAL, BUCCANEER"

Baronet Sent To Prison

LONDON, April 27 (By Air Mail) That this war will be ruthless is-Sir Curtis George Lampson, 50, to be expected of the man who was sentenced at the Old Bailey organized the Nazi Secret Police Yesterday to 18 months' imprison- ment for inciting a man to offer and system of "concentration camps, who coldly announced the & gift as an inducement for secur- shooting of Frau von Schleicher Abelson, 24, business adviser. of

ing an army commission.

Jasac

for resisting

her. ex-Chancellor Hocroftroad,

Cricklewood, who husband's arrest, who, most people with Bir Curtig had pleaded guilty believe, plotted the firing of the to the charge, was sentenced to Reichstag in 1933 and the subse-nine months imprisonment. quent purge of Communists.

Pleas of not guilty to charges of Goering himself has boasted of conspiracy and attempting to the sort of war it will be.

obtain money by false pretences· were accepted.

Long before World War II began he said: "At one order, Hei! would be turned loose on the enemy. With one quick blow destruction of the enemy would be complete!"

£600 COMMISSION Mr. Anthony Hawkę, for the prosecution, said that Mr. Henry, F. G. Andreae, anxious to obtain Last August 31, a few hours be a commission in the army, men- fore his airmen set out to make" tioned the matter to a friend, and good his boast' in Poland, he pro, eventually met Sir Curtis Lampson mised the British Ambassador to and Abelson at an hotel. At that Germany, Bir Nevile Henderson, Interview Sir Curtis said that for that, if Germany and Great Bri- £600 2 commission could be tain went to war, his Air Force obtained in 24 hours. He also would bomb only military objec- mentioned that he would see

tives. Wise Sir Nevile reminded viscount. him that because of the speed and A sum of £300 was to be paid to height of modern aircraft, bombs the viscount at once and £300 to aimed supposedly at military tar-Lampson after the deal had gone gets might easily fall in residential through. Andreae later told the London, Bik Nevile added that he police and then acted on their in- world object, to being hit on the structions. -

King (March 6) vice Col. C. J. Wallace. D8.0., O.BE, M.C., who has been promoted; Maj. Gen. (actg. Lt. Gen.). C. J. E. Auchin- leck, CB. CS.I, 'DS.O... OBE, 16: Maj-Gen. now Lt.-Gen.) A. Ind. Army, to be Lt. Gen. (March

head by any such present from B. Halg. C.E., M.C., Ind. Army, to

ΠΑ French counterattack against enemy motorised units was successful, Д great number of eriemy tanks being destroyed.

"An enemy attempt to cross the Albert Canal by boats failed,

"Numerous aerial bombardments

be granted the actg rank of L- were again carried. out on the rear of our troops. Twenty aero-Gen. whilst empld, as Qr-ME planes were brought down in Bel- Gen. in India (March 18); Col. giam during the day.”

MORE GERMAN”

THREATS

PARIS, May 13 (Reuter) It is officially announced that Germans wearing any other uniform than their own, who may be found inj France, will be immediately shot.

(témp. Brig.) (actg. Maj-Gen.) H. MacDonald, D.S.O.. Ind. Army, to be Maj. Gen. March 16),

"

Commands and Staff".

Maj-Gen, B. C. T. Paget, DB.O., M.C., relinquishes the appointment of Commdr., and to be specially employed (April 19).

·Royal Regiment of Artillery Lt. J. D, Mackay (from. S. Lan. R) to be L. retaining his present

- Infantry

in Berlin 'the official Nazi news seny. (April 28)." agency comes out with this one: "Immediate and most, violent re- R. Ir. Fus.-Maj. G. F. Gough, prisals for any II-treatment of M.C., to be Lt. Col. Marc h14), German parachutists" will be Queen Alexandra's Imperial taken.

Military Nursing Service -The Nazį agency says the para-. The follg. resign their appts, -chutists are "part of. Germany's Sister Miss C. McShane (Feb. 3). regular troops," and adds; “Their Bubsta, for notifn. in Gazette of spécial uniform is not camouflag- March 8); Provi, Staff Nurse Miss ed and cannot be mistaken for G. R. Tench (Feb, 9). (Substd. the uniform of foreign armies or for notin in Gazette of March civilian clothes!"

15).

PRECAUTIONS.. ISTANBUL, May 13 (Reuter) Measures to. ensure instant mobilisation in the event of s taken, but it is emphasised that Sudden emergency are now being

they have no other significance

They alm at bringing the re- serves up to strength, thus the

military centres at Istanbul have begun calling up, for census pur- poses and for review of their cases, 11 classes: of reservists. from 25 to 35 years of age, inclusive...

Reserve officers of all ranks, in- Auding generals. must report to their military stations to be re- viewed.

The

ROME, May 13 (Reuter) Allled contraband control is again severely criticised by the news- papers following the publication of a report by the Italian Bureau of Economic Warfare. Signor Gayda, in "Voce d'italia,” dea- cribes the control as "an open and brutal violation of every prin cipal of liberty on the sea."

"

"VISCOUNT"

said

that the

F

SAY

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940.

Gordon's

...and know what you're drinking/

DRY GIN

LONDON.

NO COLOURING MATTER

NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

47

Third Term For Roosevelt A Political Impossibility?

FOR THE FIRST TIME, TERM III FOR FRANKLIN ROUSE- VELT. RECENTLY BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A POLITICAL IMPOSSIBILITY. That thought, growing in the Capitol, spread down the gren stretch of the Mall into the tomb-like, buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue." Washington, dimly and by degrees, had a foretaste of the shock that will come to the Franklin Roosevelt remov imself from the political scene.

The man who gave the U. 3 this shadowy shock was – bly- Jim Farley. One night the little bells of the nation's News- tickers began to tinkle: clack- ing, wiry fingers tapped out under glass: To clear up any misunderstanding, let me say ..that my пяще will be presented to the Democratie National Convention in Chicago, and that's that"

DOGGED LOYALTY

country, if

later, when the the President had still not refuted the story, Big Jim spoke up, said feelingly in a speech; "We must never permit the ideals of this republic to sink to a point where every American." father and mother, regardless of race, colour creed, cannot look proudly into the cradle of their newborn babe and see, a futura President of the United States"

Three days later, still feverish with प्र. lingering cold, the Tall pink-faced Postmaster President left his sickbed, held a General Farley has been doggedly press conference. But no one asked loyal to Franklin Roosevelt ever him about Mr. Farley. At last, strce pre-Albany days. He has White House Secretary Stephen T. never forgotten that without Early tiptoed Over to 1 Cor- Franklin Roosevelt's good will he respondent who obligingly asked might yet be a saloonkeeper's son the question: ringingly the Presi who was doing fairly well as a dent raised Jim Farley's remaria, gypsum salesman.

insisted that he literally hadn't. As the President's whipping-boy read the Lindley article before throughout the early New Deal the March 5, press conference. years, Mr. Farley endured much,

TOO LATE worked hard, remained anandially

ין.

in debt until he sold his memoirs to The President said the column the American Magazine for $65,000 was made up out of whole cloth, dream Was simple and that no such interview had taken His

This sublime: to succeed Mr. Roosevelt place,

reflection on as President.

Columnist Lindley's integrity was Everybody knew what Jim not taken too seriously by those Farley thought of The Boss. But who knew Mr. Lindley, and who 'what Mr. Roosevelt thought of Big | also recalled that he had been for Jim all these years was clear to nine" years the Roosevelt everybody but Jim. That began to biographer, is now a member of clear up too one day last spring. the Franklin Roosevelt Library when Big Jim, moving with the committee. nervous alertness of a hurrying The Presidential amends came cat, strode into the White House late. Next day Mr. Farley ande to report to Mr. Roosevelt.

his announcement.

Just back from a 13-State, 7,500-mile trly, surveying Democratic fences, Jim Farley had a lot to tell. One thing: nomination for Term III would be easy, election might be tough.

Politicos took fresh heart, quit scamming the sides for portents, redoubled their search for The Right Man. Republican leaders know the political inseparability of Messrs. Roosevelt & Farley. Neither, without the other can CHILLY SILENCE

win

national victory, they Tough Mr. Farley grinned

Agured; and happily waited for flashbulb grin as he left the Term

managers Toramy White House, he left behind a Corcoran and Harold Ickes to find silence. this out, Something had changed in the re- As Candidate Farley prepared lationship of Handyman Farley for a ten-day, ten-State Southern and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter trip-to start this week in Cordell Jim Farley', visite to the White Huli territory-Third Termites House were infrequent. Last July were forced to face a strange new he went to Hyde Park for a world. Only a "month ago B long afternoon's chat with his Janizary had boasted: "We have boss. No one knew exactly what bombed every airdrome and was said, but again something had there's not a plane in the sky". changed.

chilly

Administration

And then came the break. In front-page column in the Roosevelt-

Hermarin Goering. Goering's reply Mr. Hawke was characteristic: if that should "viscount" did not in fact exist. happen, he would send a special! It cannot be sald too strongly," a airplane to drop a wreath af Birthe added, that, there is nobody Washington Post,

at the War office who could be Biographer Ernest K. Lindley re- approached in this way. This sort ported that, in, a conversation In his German, memoirs now of thing does not, and cannot with B Democratic elder, Mr running in Life, Sir Nevile Hender-] happen."

Roosevelt said:

Nevile's funeral

“DEBRUTALIZER"

over

Bon devotes a puzzled chapter to Det.-Inspr, W. Onlzilan said that Goering, who once told him that Bir Curtis, the third baronet, had the trouble with the British was been adjudicated bankrüpt tour that they had become "debrutaliz-times, and last month was bound ed."

at London Bessions for Sir Nevile admired Goering's obtaining credit without disclos- loyalty to Hitler, his administra- ing

·WOR an undischarged tive ability, his physical courage, bankrupt, his sportsmanship above all his frankness; which does not stoop to devious decelts.

he

(1) he would not run for Term III unless the Germans overran England:

.(2) Secretary of State Cordell Hull way his candidate, was safe, could be elected:

(3) Jim Farley * was - manteni ceptable as a Vice-Presidential nominee because some people might think the Democrats were using Cordell Hull as a «talking horse for the Pope".

NO

Now it appeared there could be no Term III nomination by acclamation.” The 'Janizaries were.even heard to mention a New Deal come-back 'In 1944

HEINKEL

BY

CAPTURED

RUSE

· LONDON, AÞril 25 (By Air Mall) -Overhearing German airmen in a beerhouse adjoining a Norwegian fjord saying where their Heinkel reaplane was moored, two Norwegian airmen procured some paint, reached the seaplane, obliterated the swastikas, and painted in the Norwegian colours They, then flew the seaplane to a British port. Three Norwegian airmen had previously reached

BATAVIA, May 13 (Reuter)-A loyal message was broadcast by He credits Goering with inter- the Netherlands East Indies to vening decisively for peace in 1938, the home country yesterday in the thinks he would have done so in following words: "We are proud

day STATEMENT 1939 if he had dared risk Hitler's that you, Holland, have resisted displeasure, Bumming him up, Sir the enemy so fiercely Never beference, the President sald be the same port with a Norwegian Nevile found him “a typical and tore have we had a better cause had not read the Lindley piece seroplane in which they had brutal buccaneer: but he had cer- to die for or live for. "Long live He made no other direct state- escaped when their country was tain attractive qualities: and I the Fatherland."

ment on the subject. Eleven days invaded.

Next day, at his press con-