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Dramatic New Phase of European War Begins As- NAZI HORDES INVADE HOLLAND: TROOPS LANDING FROM PLANES
GOVT. IS DOOMED
Premier Advised To Resign
By H. L. PERCY
("UNITED PRESB" STAFF
CORRESPONDENT)
LONDON, May 10 (UP). -The majority of Members of Parliament with whom I talked last night adhere to the conviction that the Chamberlain Government is doomed.
Its survival could be prolonged for only a brief period.
A group of rebel Conserva- tives have already discussed, with Mr. Chamberlain the ques- tion of his resignation, and have advised him to offer his services under another Prime Minister.
Three Possible Courses Several courses are open to Mr. Chamberlain if he SCCB His Majesty the King.
1.--Je may resign outright, leaving
it up to the Labour Party or, if they refuse or fail, to the Liberal Party to form a Cabinet.
2-le
may tender the resignation of him
himself and members of the Cabinet to the King, and form entirely new Cabinet,
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3.He may resign und suggest to
olher
pro-
His Majesty that some ment Conservative,, such as Lord Lieut-Com. J. 11. Forbes, captain of Halifax or Mr. Churchill form a new the submarine Spearfish, which, Cabinet,
"torpedoed the "Nazi" "pocket": battle="
The third course seems the must ship Adintral Scheer,
likely one Mr. Chamberlain will adopt.
Labour Party's Reluctance The Parliamentary Labour Party is reluctant to form a Government and! the Opposition Liberals are too weak to gain any substantial following in ile House,
The likeliest development is that Lord Halifax will become Premier (with a seat in the House of Lordis) and Mr. Churchill leader in the House of Commons.
The Opposition, however, is almost certain to object to the Premier sit- ting in the House of Lords and Mr. Churchill may,
therefore, become
Premier,
RUSSIAN WARNING ALLEGED
Concentrations In The Balkans
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“
SOFIA, May 9 (Domei). Diplomatic sources in Sofia state
If Mr. Chamberlain resigns out that Soviet Russia has warned right, the only two possible con- testants for the Premiership appear the Allies, Germany and Italy
to be Lord Halifax and Mr. Churchill. that the Soviet Union
Churchill Favoured
It is believed that the Labour OP position would agree to join n War Ministry under Mr. Churchill. It is
cannot
remain indiferent to the concen- tration of forces now taking place in the Balkan sector.
WEEK-LONG TENSION IN NETHERLANDS COMES TO CLIMAX THIS MORNING
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
AMSTERDAM, May 10 (UP).-GERMANÝ HAS INVADED THE
|NETHERLANDS.
The warning is also said to
pointed out, however, that the sanc- have been extended to Rumania
tion of the Labour Party Conference, which opens at
and Yugo-Sh.vin. Bournemouth on
OWING TO THE STRICT CENSORSHIP OVER ALL TELEGRAPHIC AND TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATIONS IMPOSED BY THE NETHER. LANDS GOVERNMENT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN MORE THAN MEAGRE DETAILS AT PRESENT."
GLAND
SEA AMSTERDAM
Emden
GERMANY
THE HAGUE
Rolferdo,
Flushing
Ostend
Antwerp BRUSSELS
LGIUM
•Essen
Dusseldorf
Cologne
Maastricht
The invasion is apparently nation-wide, and is apparently being Allies Tighten Grip In North Norway
carried out by means of transport planes.
First intimation that something was amiss came shortly before
midnight when the Netherlands Government imposed a strict consorship NAZIS RETREAT
on all communications and closed the locks of canals around Amsterdam.
BRIEF STORY OF INVASION
Here, in brief urgent flashes is the story of the invasion, as told by "United. Press" correspondents.
2.41 a.m. (9.41 a.m. H.K.T.) The noise of unidentified planes is audible over Amsterdam.
Searchlights immediately went into action, and anti-aircraft guns fired at the. mystery machines for five minutes.
SKY DARK WITH AEROPLANES
4.5 a.m. (11.5 a.m. H.K.T.) The sky over Holland is darkened by planes of unknown nationality.
Amsterdam's anti-aircraft guns have again gone into action. Intense anti-aircraft fire is reported from the entire countryside. Huge squadrons of big planes are crossing to and fro over the entire country.
****4.15 n.m. (11.15'am. H.K.T;)—A squadron of foreign is circling the Denhelder Naval Base.-
LABOUR FAVOURS LLOYD GEORGE
By Frederick Kuh ("UNITED, PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT)
LONDON, May 9 (UP).~~A prominent member of the Parliamentary Lalwur Party in- formed me to-night that Mr. Lloyd George would be the most suitable man for the Premier- shin from the Labour point of view.
He admitted, however, that Huch a selection would encoun ter stiff opposition from the Conservatives, and this opposi. tion would prove decisive.
Labour's next best cholce, he said, was Mr. Churchill, but Labour's acceptance of office under Lord Halifax should not be ruled out.
Liberal members express al- most identical views.
Monday, must be obtained before Bulgarian offcial circles bɛ- ******* Labour Members can join a Coalition lieve that this step by the
Government.
The conference would be largely U.S.S.R. endorses her future. Disastrous
Influenced by
the decision of the policy in the Balkans.
Executive Committee,
They recall at, following the
The next 48 hours will be the most despatch of a Yugo-Slavian military
potential period,
Germans Warned
BPKCIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
D
delegation to Moscow, a Soviet mill- Įtary mission is now en route to Yugo-
Slaviu.
From Moscow, however, the official BERLIN, May (UP). The Tess" Agency denies that the Soviet "Hamburger -Fremeenblatt" warns has offered to come to the old of German readers that the impending Yugo-Slavia or Rumania if they are resignation of Mr. Chamberläla will invaded by Germany, mean an "intensification of .the| British drive to spread the war."
"English mentality for the Arst eight months of war has been characterised by increasing cager- ness."
European Reported Missing
Flights
Nazis Lose Planes Over Britain
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH LONDON, May, 10 (UP).
FROM
NARVIK
By PETER RHODES
[UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT) KIRUNA, Norwegian Border, May 9 (UP). The German forces east of Narvik are retreating toward the Swedish frontier.
Only nine miles separate two Allied and Norwegian columns, which are driving down, the mountains on. Bjordfjuell, where the Narvik railway to the Swedish iron ore mines in Kiruna cuts through the mountains into Sweden.
Should these two forces close! planesTM-across-the-valley-through which!
the vital railway passes,
the German garrison in Narvik will be completely isolated, and final assault on the port. can be expected to follow at once.
Six German seaplanes are circling over Ijumiden. Fifty planes of unknown nationality are above Nijmegen.
FIERCE AERIAL DOG-FIGHTS
5 a.m. (Noon ILK.Ț.) Fierce dog-fights are in pro- gress over Amsterdam. Dutch fighters are diving on
the bombers. The latter are believed to be German.
5.10 a.m. (12.10 p.m. H.K.T)-German planes are now bombing the Dutch airfield at Welschap, near Eindhoven.
Three German planes attempted to land in Zeeland, but were repelled or brought down by Dutch anti-aircraft fire, PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND
5.30 a.m. (12.30 p.m. H.K.T.)—A later message says that about one hundred Nazi parachute troops landed near Doredrecht.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH**.
AMSTERDAM, May 10 (UP).-New and ominous
developments are occurring in the Netherlands to-night.
They coincide with a flood of fresh rumours which are impossible to verify.
WRIT AGAINST SWEDISH SHIP
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PORTLAND, Ore. May 9 (UP),—| The British importing and exporting firm Balfour, Guthrie & Company have fled a claim for $1,800 against the Swedish motorship Dagmar,
The Government suddenly cut off all incoming telephone and They claim that 80,000 bags of telegraph communications and, sugar were spoiled as the result of without warning, the Army the infiltration of keroseno when the
ship was en route from Manila, took control of all wires.
"United Press" was informed st.11 p.m. (8 a.m. H.KT.) that the mea- sure would become effective im- mediately.
No communications are now per-
France Cleans-up Reconnaissance and mine-lay-mitted except by cable service.
Communists
WEB
jing flights by German machines over England and Scotland proved disastrous for the inva- SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH
ders to-day, two machines being PARIS, May ▷ (UP), The Profect brought down. of Polico announces that the clean-
A Dornier "ghting pencil" Captain Andre Keila aged 62 of 30 the outbreak of war has resulted in north-onstern Scottish coast town up of Communists in France since brought down fourteen miles do Mody Road, Kowloon was reported the arreat of 2,241 persons. missing to the police, last night,
after attempting to reconnoltre laland. They include 21 Deputies, 13 When he left home shortly after Municipal and Department Council- Spitfires took to the air as soon as dinner on Monday night, he told his lors, 25 Mayors and suburban Coun- the Dornier was reported to niece, Miss Shella Haines, that he elflors, 11 City Hall secretaries and approaching and caught up with the was going to his ship. He has not 701 important Communist
after it had crossed- Invader agitatore. been seen since.
Captain Kella is of medium build pressed 07 Communist newspapers,
In addition, the Police have sup-const-line.
Pilot Drowned with fair hair and grey eyes. He closed 202 Communist headquarters was dressed in a dark tweed sult and dissolved
The Gorman made a desperate 321 Communial- When he left his home.
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controlled Unions,
be
the
All locks in the Amsterdam canal; area were closed at nightfall under orders from the authorities.
cautions culminated at 2.41 m.
(9.41 m IKT.) with dramatic
anti-aircraft guns.
Lack Of A. A.
Of
Allied Advanco
a
The Allied and Norwegian forces appear to have mads' considerable progress from the north and have now captured all the ridges dominol- Ing the German positions along the railway.
Additionally, Elvergard and Moen, at the foot of Herjangs Fjord, have been re-captured by Allied forces.
The Norwegians, reinforced by skilled French Alpine ski troops, have spent the past ten days mopping up the Germans on the ridges dominat- ing the railway. This task is now completed,
Simultaneously, another Allied
LATEST
BRITISH LAND IN ICELAND
SPECIAL TOʻTHE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, May 10, (UP),—
force has landed at Elvergaard and The Foreign Office has officially is now toiling over Storstein Mounannounced that British forces tain towards the southern ridge ot have landed in Iceland. dominating Bjordfjuell heights,
Naxis Fly Reinforcements
TROOPS OVER FRONTIER
Best reports available on the fron- ter indicate that the Germans have been reinforced' by approximately 1,000 troops who have been lown to
AMSTERDAM, 6.10 A.M. (1.10 P.M. Narvik by transport plase since the H.K.T. UP), — HUNDREDS OF first landing. This would make the PARACHUTISTS HAVE LANDED tolal Nazi defence force in Narvik
AT HOOGEZWALUWE. only 5,000 men.
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Guns Cause
Failure In Norway
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”
IT IS REPORTED THAT THE THE air,GERMANS HAVE CROSSED
DUTCH FRONTIER NEAR Roer. MOND. THIS LATTER REPORT IS NOT AT PRESENT CON: FIRMED.
PARIS, May 9 (UP),The lack of anti-aircraft guns in Nor- way is blamed by M. Koht, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, for A.A. Guns In Action
the failure of the Allied and Norwegian forces to hold the Ger
Not a Sotback The series of Government pre-an advance.
"It is a mistake to look on the "We could have easily held the tactical withdrawal from south Nor action on the part of Amsterdam Germans if wo had had sufficient way Allies are still in control at
as a setback. A.A. guns to keep their planes
Narvik. French troopa aro pro- dominant The roar of approaching air-away," he said..
there now because they planes was distinsity beard in the
"Do not belleve that we are des- were the first to arrive. residential districts of southern pairing over what has happened.
"Allied strategy is not going to be Amsterdam. J
"The Norwegian Army is not tricked hv Germany's attempts to quitting and will continue to fight force us to withdraw too many fight- Searchlights Immediately criss- every inch of the way.
ing troops from Europe, where, the crossed the sky and AA guns open- "Our King and the Crown Prince main battlefront will remain unul od fire from several paints at 2.41 never have had any idea of leaving victory, am.
the country, They are sult in Nor "Of ultimate victory wa' Bave: not Firing ceased Ave minutes later.way and there they intend to rompin.] the slightest doubt."
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