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GENERAL

GERMANY THROWS HALF HER

HALF HER TANKS INTO FIGHT

FRENCH COUNTER-ATTACK CHECKS SHEER

SHEER PROPAGANDA: ENEMY ON MANY POINTS

General Giraud Takes Command

In The Sedan

Region

LONDON. MAY 19 (REUTER)—THE WAR SETUATION ON THE WESTERN FRONT HAS BEEN EXPANDED ON BY OFFICIAL SPOKESMEN BOTH IN LONDON AND PARIS WHO HAVE FILLED IN THE GAPS IN THE OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES,

In one small area atone ever half the tanks in the German army were thrown into the battle; over 3,000 tanks advanced in two directions in the bulge created in the French lines.

At the northern end of the bulge, on the River Sambre, the armoured columns reached a point. 10 miles from the frontier; they made little further progress, after being counter-attacked by French tanks.

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от enemy communication' points.

Twenty miles to the south Wonderful Halson is being and enemy tanks launched a stronger maintained between the French attack and the battle ended on and British forces, as a result of positions chosen beforehand" by the close" study made by the two the French Command.

armies of each other's methods for

The French launched a counter- years past.

French The result has been attack and the German advance that misunderstandings have been has slackened. However, no false absent, which was not the case in hopes are entertained in officiali the Great War. quarters.

The Germans have tried to break through at other points and so widen the salient, but these attacks have failed.

SEVERE FIGHTING At no point has the Maginot Line been attacked...

Severe fighting is going on be- tween Malmedy and Sedan with the Germans apparently trying to get behind the end of the Maginot Line: all attacks, were repulsed. at Malmedy easily, and at Sedan not so easily.

FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITIES

Meanwhile the Germans

are

NAZI WHITE BOOK

WHEN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSEF BECK AND OTHER LEADERS OF A BEATEN POLAND FLED FROM WARSAW LAST SEPTEMBER, they left in a hurry. According to the Ger- man Foreign Office, they left behind them some very interesting documents.

The Germans published these documents a day after Mr. Samher Welles, fast back from "Europe, tande his undivulged re- port to the Presklegt Published in a entitled "Polish Documents Bear- sional lack of reticence. But the ing on Events That Led Up to the German Foreign Office tried to

White Book, sometimes talk with an unprofes

War." they purported to be mem- draw the nonsensical conclusion

branda from Polish diplomats that US. oficial had conspired to (Count Jerzy Potock!, Ambassador foment the

"

war. Evidently

more documents

Lo the US, Jules Lukasiewicz. dulging in false hope that the Ambassador to France, Count publication would set up dissen- Edward Raczynski, Ambassador sion in the US., it hinted' at the CURTAINING"" THE GERMANS

In London, Trade Councillor Jan publication of Wszelaki! to their chief, Col. Beck, showing the ugly wiles of U.S. PARIS, May 19 Reuter)A They reported conversations held diplomats

spokesman says that with U. 6. Ambassador to France French troops are getting on with William Bullit U. S. Ambassador the Job of curtaining the Ger- to the Court of St. James's Joseph SOUTH AFRICA mans in the salient. They are ar- Kennedy. Of the conversations

"CLEANS UP" elving rapidly and taking up their the documents reported:

JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (Neu positions...

MANY "THAT'S" making new use of the Fifth Co- yet available, but it is certain that No details of the Aghting are

ter)-Immediate and active mea- That Mr. Bullitt tumn, and

nursed asures for dealing with "Fifth are trying by this

'strong hatred It has been heavy and lively. **

about Germany Column" activities as well AS Imeans to shake morale behind the

Besides

the thrust in the and Chancellor, Hitler." that Mr. subversive movements and inim front.

sullent. the Germans made an- Bullitt believed the US. France cal propaganda are announced by other attack south of Sedan, in an and England "must heavily arm Mr. Colin Steyn, Minister attempt to force another break-in order to be able to oppose Justice. through and wider the salient. German power," that the U. 8. Mr. Steyn added that Gen- would undoubtedly" participate eral Smuts, the Premier. was NEWEST TANKS

in a war to force the capitulation personally attending to the matter. The Germans are apparently of Germany "but only after Eng- using from two to three armoured land and France had first stirred crufts are the first results of

This action and the rush of re- the divisions, made up of their new-

themselves"), ·and best and heaviest tanks, which are November 1938) already "

WILS (in German Invasion of Holland and athe increasing tension by being used on an actual battle- well supported by bombing 'plaries front for the first time. They are psychosis shallar to that existing Mediterranean.

before America's declaration of General Smuts' supporters claim and infantry.

war on Germany in 1917."..

2 distinct swing towards the Prime Minister in Afrikans speak- mg parts of the country.

Nazl agents have come across the frontier with civilian refugees: they are spreading wild rumours in the hope of causing confusion and mistrust among troops and people.

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS LONDON, May 19 (BWS)—An official communique issued

yesterday

The tactics are for bombers to

In Belgium, at the north end of British GQ, early the Allied line, the British and morning says: "Successful opera French have withdrawn.

tions were carried out by the GENERAL GIRAUD TAKES OVER BEF. yesterday. Several enemy

.COMMAND

aircraft were brought down by start things going by dive-bomb. The British troops are describanti-aircraft and small arms firing in great numbers on the point ed as beth indignant at having in addition to the successes of the selected for the advance. The to withär. as they always are R.A.F. The morale of the troops

tahk "push follows when *

at is ordered the Is very high" reasons ir, which they cannot “DYLE LINE” ABANDONED LONDON, May 19 (Reuter General Giraud has taken over Allied troops In Belgium have the command of the French withdrawn from the "Dyle Line." tropps in the Sedan area: the p- which has been abandoned. and pointment has put fresh heart have taken up positions which Into ordinary people in France.

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NUT MANY CANUALTIES If it succeeds, the Infantry try to come chute troops dropped close behind

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Ja the

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That President Roosevelt's foreign palleg would. be to: 1 2) accelerate war preparations in influential followers in the Orange. denounce the totalitarian States. Two of General Hertzog's most

the U.S...3 tolerate no compromise Free State announced with the totalitarian States on support General Smuts. the part of Britain and France, 4) advance moral assurance that

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side of France and Britain.”

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FIFTH COLUMNISTS

SEEDED OUT. If the tank "push" falls, the

PARIS, May 19(Reuter) A TWO-FOLD OBJECT tanks return and the heavy

steady stream of refugees from bombers have another try at dive-

That President Roosevelt "was Belgium and Northern France i bombing.

the first who gave expression to still passing through the capital LIVELY BATTLE

From all reports. the French the hatred of Fascism," with a but the Government has nw LONDON, May 19 (Reuter-A casualties from the bombing, are twofold object "First. he wanted warped civilians not to leave town French war communique says that not large, but the tactics have to divert the mattertion of the and urban areas unt!! instructed. In France a lively battle con- considerable, morale effect. The American people from difcult and The order is regarded with wide- tinues in the regions already In- mere concussion of the bombs can Involved inner political problems spread approval. the object being dicated in yesterday night's com- stun "the troops, something long... Second, by the creation of to keep the roads free for military

enough to enable the tanks to ad-war opinion and through rumors traffic vance to the attack.

| about the danger threatening Observera "claim there is uttle. Hence, the Importance of air Europe, he wanted to get the danger from "Flith Column" support cannot be exaggerated, American people to accept un activities owing to the continuou

The French military spokesman Chormovs armament said that the Allied 'planes are gramme.. continuously bombing columns of troops, bridges and lines of com- munication.

munique.

In Belgium, taking into account| the general situation, the Allied troops carried- cut a movement of withdrawal and took up positions west of Brussels

During the night our aviation carried out violent bombing at tacks on enemy colurans. on roads

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Five Bombs Near Them

But They Were Unscathed

SUPPORT FOR ROOSEVELT'S ARMAMENT PLANS

107

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of the

AIR RAID ALARM

pro-actiON against suspicious for- eigners sirice the wal began. That "the President certainly (coupled with the recent intern. said he would sell airplanes toment of many "men of German France since the French Army is origin. Nevertheless precautions the first line of defence for the fare being taken against surprises U.S."*

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That Ambassador Kennedy would "insist on the necessity of (Great Britain) aiding Poland Im- mediately with cash."

READY AGAINST "QUISLINGS

That Mr. Kennedy had told 'Mr. BERNE May 19 (Reuter) Wazelaki: "You have no idea to Switzerland is increasing, her pre- what extent my oldest boy, who cautions against the Fifth Column. was in Poland a short time ago, The Department of Justice and Police have been given has the President's ear. I might the say that the President believes authority to expel undesirable him more than me."

aliens. In Basle, where the French and German frontiers meet, the local authorities have been given full powers to act in an emergency without consulting the Federal Council..

SHEER PROPAGANDA

1

At the White House, the White Book was described as sheer pro paganda, to be taken not with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt." echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper för France.

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TSAOYANG RECAPTURED BY THE CHINESE

More Than 20,000 Japanese

Surrounded Last Week

CHUNGKING, May 18 (Central)-The Chinese complete re- capture of Tsaoyang, 40 miles east of Siangyang. where more ...than 20,000 Japanese have been surrounded in the past week, is

· confirmed in an urgent despatch received here from Fancheng.

The message described the fighting there prior to the Chin- ese recapture as exceptionally severe and revealed that hand- to-hand combats raged from morning till evening."

main Japanese force in central between the advancing Chinese The Chinese goal of cruating the subarbe of Nanchang in Klangs China is said to have been reach- and 2000, Japanese troops. The

ed....

Chinese Lady Injured In Bombing

LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)-A graphic description bombing of a small Belgian frontier town was given on Friday by Mr. Edward Ward, (formerly with Reuters in the Far East). who said it was nothing like anything he had seen in Finland.

He arrived at the town on the Belgo-French frontier cn Thurs- day. It was packed with refugees, at least 20,000 of them, and when he saw them he thought to him- self how horrible it would be were WASHINGTON, May 19. (Reu- the town bombed." ter-Pledges of support for Pre- After hnch, he went into the

| Japanese "were defeated suffering sident Roosevelt's large arma- main square with some other war

ARMS SEIZED

the loss af over 500 officers and nent plans have been made by correspondents...

Besides Tsaoyang, the Chinese mer and about 200 rifles -- three leading Republicans, ex-

also

recaptured Chifangkang. President Hoover, Mr. Alf Landon The air-raid alarm sounded and Said Count Potocki in Washing

Huho., and Yangchiatang. near and Col, Frank Knox.

they could see puffs of anti-air-ton: "I have never had any con- LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)-The the Honan border northwest of Mr. Landon and Col. Knox craft fre. Then came the "all versations with Ambassador Bul- King, wearing R. A. F. uniform, Tsaoyang, on May 16, More than weze the Republican nominees clear" but no sooner had it stop-litt en America's participation on Friday inspected the Bomber 1,000 Japanese were killed, and a

the presidency and vice-red than they heard more anti-the war." Bald Secretary of State Command in England.

quantity of aims and ammunition presidency last election.

aircraft fre and this time they Hull: I may say most emphati- His Majesty studied maps and was seized. Their endorsement of President, also saw the German bombers, cally that neither I not any of my reports of the Command's recent

In central Hupeh. the Chinese Huusevelt's programme la remark- There was no time to take shel-associates in the Department of operations on the western front, have pushed south of Kingshan. ed as forming. In effect a de ter They rushed towards a tall State have even heard of any such and warmly praised their, feats. 35 miles east of Chungsiang. in fence coalition unparalleled in the clock-tower and Bung themselves conversations as those alleged, nor The work of the R. AF. is their southward drive. In an at-

CHUNGKING: May 19 (Reuter) United States since the Great onto the ground next to the wall.

do we give them the slightest threefold.

tack on the Japanese at Yung-News has just been received here War.

credence." From Harvard Joseph P. First, they attack enemy supply shingchen, south of Kingshan. that Mr. Wang Ching-chi, Chinese, For what seemed like an Kennedy Jr. denied that he had communications."

they routed the enemy, captured Minister to Poland, had a narrow eternity, there was a faging in- Mr. Roosevelt's car. Said he: "A

Secondly, they strike blows be- more than 300 rtffer and destroyed escado recently when German terno around them, the, lighter; lot of 'bunk."

hind, the enemy Lines.

aircraft bombed a town near the two Japanese tanks.“ crack of anti-aircraft fire mingi-. In Berlin, some of the foreign

Third, they protect our troops in Following their

French border where he stopped ing with the heavier explosions of correspondents who were shown the line and down raiders, in Bel-Lulin and Kikungshan on the overnight on his way to Paris,

His wife and daughter were LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)- A

the documents, written on scratch gum and France,

Pelping-Hankow Railway in south At least five bombs dropped paper, reported that they looked German broadcast admits heavy within 100 yards of them, some of genuine. were covered with mar

Honan the Chinese are now push-both slightly injured when a bomb. Allied air raida on Germany, and the nearer ones flinging them ginal notes, apparently by Polish

ing towards Wushengkwan gate-hit the hotel in which they were GIRL GUIDES says that in the first three days of against the wall of the tower.

way into Honan 27 and half miles staying. the invasion of the Low Countries,

GIFT FUND

south of Binyang Serious clashes

SERVANTS KILLED. They expected to get hit at any

have already taken place between Mr. Wang's chauffeur and maid- LACK OF RETICENCE

Through the generosity of the the advance guards of the two servant are believed to have been Neither the President

nor owners... directors and management opposing forces.

killed as the bomb hit the section Secretary Hull said in so many of the King's and Majestic Thea-

of the hotel where the servants. words that they were a fraud tres, two cinema performances for In support of the Japanese stayed, and there was no trace of They echoed familiar and frequent children wil be given on Empire ground defenders, enemy planes the servants after the bombing. public utterances of. Francophile, Day, May 24. at 11 o'clock. "Wee nave bombed and strafed the It is also learned that Mr. Chien Bill Bullitt. On the sore point, the Willie Winkle will be shown at advancing Chinese One of the Tal Chinese Ambassador to clared: "His Majesty's Government adhered to this policy. The state- declaration that the U. S. would the King's Theatre and has made it clear that it is no Dartment that the RAF has deliber- eventually go to wer, they did not Prince and the Pauper" at the Mai-brought down by une Chinese in with other members of the Diplo

"The machines is reported to have been Belgium, left Brussels for Ostend of their policy to bomb pon-miliately bombed civilians is untrue indicate that Mr. Bullitt had estic Theatre. The total proceeds flames. All its crew were killed.matic Corps, tury objectives, no matter what and was obviously made with the sald. if anything, more than most will be devoted to the Guide Gift Fighting in south Hupeh is still.. It is understood the Chinese the policy of the German Govern object of paving the way for the B. citizens were saying a few Fund. It is hoped that parents and centred around Tashaping, be-covernment. has appropriated ment. In spite of wanton German use against this country of the months ago....

children will support the scheme; tween Tsunkyang and Tungchens. funds for the construction of dug- attacks on civilians, His Majesty's inhuman methods already, taken. If the documents proved any the theatres and help the

A three-day battle raged on May outs in the Chinese Embassies in Government has steadfastly against other countries

thing it was that U. 8. diplomats Hongkong Guides" gontribution, 13-18 near Istaban in the western Paris, London and Brussels,

NON-MILITARY PLACES NOT BOMBED

FIVE BOMBS DROPPED

the bonibs.

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71 Allied air raids were made oy moment. They could see wreckage German-territory. The broadcast anoot high into the air as the alleges that 51 of these were on bombs hit buildings arctind them. non-military objectives,

They fortunately came through This is vigorously denied in unscathed. London, where a Foreign Office statement yesterday afternoon de-

officials,

Decovery of

CHINESE BOMBED