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WAR SITUATION ANALYSED BY PREMIER: GLOWING TRIBUTE TO YOUNG AIRMEN FRANCE AND

ITALY

B.E.F. Will Be Built Up DOOR NOT CLOSED Again Under Lord Gort TO NEGOTIATIONS

The following is the continuation of the statement by Mr. Winston Church!, Prime Minister, In the House of Commons the first part of which was published in our issue yesterday.] ***

"In closing this flank contact was lost inevitably between the British and the two or three corps forming the first French army, which were still further from the coast than we were and it seemed, impossible that a large number of Allied troopa cou'd reach the coast. The enemy attacked on all sides in great strength and tury and their main power-the "power of their far more numerous air force-was thrown into the battle or was concentrated upon Dunkirk and the beaches.

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PARIS. June 5 (Reuter)-"H Italy enters the war, she will be dolog so for the sole purpose of waging war" declared M. Reynaud. French Premler, In a statement to the Foreign Affairs Commission.

The Premier recalled that both before and since the war began, France had made known to Italy her willingness to open discussions with the aim of finding a friendly settlement on all cutstanding questions.

"Pressing in upon the narrow exits both from the east and

These overtures remained with- fire upon the from the west. the enemy began concentrated

out response, but the attitude beaches by which along shipping could approach or depart. They

which the Italian Government sowed magnetic mines in the channels and in the sea. They sent

felt called to adopt has made no repeated waves of hostile aircraft, sometimes more than a hun-

difference to the feelings of the upon the

French Government. A statement dred strong in one formation, to cast their bombs single pler that remained and upon the sand dunes amid which

to this effect was brought to the the troops as they arrived, sought shelter,

notice of the Italian Government. one of which Germany in the air than to make

During the past few days, the Their U-boats. was sunk, and their motor launali evacuation from these beaches French Government in full agrée- ches took toll of the vast traffic impossible and to sink all the ships ment with Great Britain, had re- and says. which now began. For four or five which were displayed. abanst to newed 1ts demarches days the intense struggle raged. the number of a thousand? Could "Mussolint knows that there is All the armoured divisions, or there have been an objective of nothing provocative tour what was left of them, together greater military importance of titude and we never closed, and do with great masses of derman in- greater military significance for not now close, the door to negotia- fantry and artilery hurled them- the whole purposes of the war than tions." selves in vain upon the ever nar- this? rowing contracting appezzix with- in which the British and French armies fought.

STRAINED EVERY NERVE "Meanwhile, the Royal Navy, with the willing help Cheers) countless merchant seamen and a host of volunteers Cheers, stra- med every nerve to embark the British and Allled troops. Over 220 light warships and more than 650 other vessels were engaged. They had to operate upon, a difficult coast, often in adverse weather, and amid an almost ceaseless hall of bombs and an increasing con- centration of artery fre. Nor were the seas themselves free from mines and torpeodes.

"It was in couutions such as these that our men carried on with Httle or no rest: for, days and nights on end, mak- ing trip after trip across the dangerous waters and bringing with them always the men whom they had rescued. The numbers brought back are the measure of their devotion and their courage (Cheers),

INTERNMENT. IN EIRE

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They tried hard and they were beaten back; they were frustrated In their attacks. We got the army away and they paid fourfola for DUBLIN, June 5 (Reuter) -- any losses they inflicted upon us.uce activity throughout re in Very large formations of German the past three days resulted in the planes and we know this is a very arrest and internment of 390 sus- brave race-have turned on several pects occasions from the attack of a quarter of their number of the RAF and dispersed in different directions. Twelve planes been hunted by two. One plane was driven into the water and cast away because of the charge of British planes which had no more

ammunition (Cheers,

have

"All our types, all our pilots have been vindicated: the Hurricanes, the Spitfires, and the new Deflant planes are superior to what they at present have to face.

"When we consider how much greater would be cur advantage in defending the air above this island against an oversea attack. I must say I and in these facts a sure basts upon which a practical and reassuring thought may rest and I pay my tribute to these young airmen. (Cheers).-

two or

"The hospital ships which

"I return to the Army. In the brought of many thousands of wounded, being to plainly marked, og series of very ferce battles. were a special target for Nazlaw on this front and now on bombs, but the men and women that, fighting on three fronts at

onde, battles fought by aboard them never faltered in their three divisions against an equal duty (Cheers).

"Meanwhile, the R.A.F. had been or somewhat larger number of the enemy and fought very fiercely on intervening in the battle, so far as the old ground that so many of„ Its range would allow, from home ports and it now used part of its us knew so well, our losses in men.

have exceeded 30,000 kiled main metropolitan fighters, which, wounded and missing

In large numbers, protected. the "I take occasion to express the shipd. This struggle was protracted

synipaths of the House with all and fierce

who have suffered bereavement or, are still anxious.

SCENE CLEARED "Now suddenly the scene has "The President of the board of cleared. The crack of thunder baa Trade is not here to-day. His son for the moment, but only for the is killed.

moment, died away. The intracle "Azainst this loss of over 30,000 of deliverance (Cheers, achieved men, we may set the far heavier by the valour, by the perseverance, loss certainly inflicted upon the by the perfect discipline, by the enemy.

anuntless service, by the resource, "We have, perhaps, lost one -by the skill. by the unconquerable third of the men we lost in the ndelity is manifest to us all. The opening days of the battle of enerny was hurled back by the re- March 21, 1918, But we have lost treating French and British troops. nearly as many guns.-nearly 1,000 He was so roughly handled that guns, and our" transport and all he did not dare molest their de- larmoured vehicles that were, with parture seriously.

the army in the north.

"The Air Force decisively de- feated the main strength of the German Air Force and in- flicted upon them a loss of at least four to one. And the Navy, using nearly a thousand whips of all kinds, carried over $35.000

(Lond cheers) men. French and British, qui of these jawS of dest and shame back to their native land and to the task which le Immediately aheau,"

"An effort, the like of which have never been seen in our re- cords, is now being made. Work

is proceeding everywhere fight! and day, on Sundays and week- days..

"Already that now of ammuni- tions has leapt forward...

"Nevertheless, our thankfulness

at the escape of, our army and so many men whose 'loved ones have passed through an agonising time must not blind us to the fact that

"We must be very careful not to what happened in France and Bel- assign to this deliverance the at-glum is a colossal military dicas- tributes of victory, Wars are rotter.

"The French Army has been

..

"We are told that Hitler has u plan for invading the British Isles. This has often been thought of

betore.

won by evacuations (Hear, hear), but there is a victory inside "this weakened, the Belgian Army is deliverance which should be noted, lost. and it was gained by the Air Force, ONLY SAW BOMBERS "Many of our soldiers coming back had not seen the Air Force

"We shall not be content with at work They only saw bombers which escaped the protective at- a defensive war. We have our duty tack. They underrate its achieve to our Allies. We have to recon-

atitute and build up a BEF, agai ment,

"I have heard much talk of that under its gallant Commander-in- and that is why I go out of my Chief, General Lord Gort.

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way to tell the House about it. This

was a great trial of strength be-

FIFTH COLUMN

We have found it necessary to

tween the British and the German take measures of increasing strin- Air Forces, Can you conceive agency not only against enemy

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