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Orders 20,000

20,000 Americans To Evacuate Danger Area As

ITALIAN GERMAN

Great Battle Of The Meuse Still Raging

NAZI VANGUARD 12 MILES FROM BRUSSELS, CLAIM

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

BERLIN, MAY 15 (DOME});—THE GERMANİ HIGH COMMAND CLAIMS THAT GERMAN TROOPS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN EFFECTING A CROSSING OF THE MEUSE River SOUTH OF NAMUR.

FIERCE BATTLES ARE RAGING ALONG THE ENTIRE MEUSE FRONT.

ENTRY INTO WAR AS ALLY BELIEVED

FAILED TO HALT GERMANS

NEAR

YUGO-SLAVIA COMPLETES PREPARATIONS TO MEET ANY POSSIBLE MENACE

SPECIAL. TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

NEW YORK, May_15_(DOMEI).—DIPLOMATIC OBSERVERS IN LONDON-BELIEVE THAT ITALY WILL SHORTLY ENTER THE WAR AS AN ALLY OF GERMANY.

"

TWENTY THOUSAND AMERICANS HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO LEAVE ITALY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

A message from Belgrade states that Yugo-Slavia has completed all preparations to meet any threat from Italy.

Seven hundred thousand Yugo-Slavian troops are now massed on the frontiers facing Italy and Germany.

Units of the Yugo-Slavian Air Force are maintaining a constant

The German forces have reached at a point system of inundation, the flooding of large parts of Holland patrol of the Adriatic Sea in order to guard against any Italian invasion

12 miles from Brussels, according to a German High Command communique. FURIOUS STREET FIGHTING

A message from Paris states that fierce fighting. is raging in the Meuse River sector.

There is furious street fighting in the city of Sedan, according to a French High Command communique. NAZIS IN SEDAN

THE ENTIRE AREA OF BELGIUM, EAST OF THE MEUSE RIVER, IS NOW IN GERMAN HANDS.

Although great faith was placed in the efficacy of the Dutch failed to stop the overwhelming Nazi advance. Here we see part of the Dutch inundation scheme illustrated.

Mammoth Battles Western

Air

the Front

on

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" :

across the water..

TO GIVE ORDER TO FIGHT?

By FREDERICK KUH

"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, May 15. (UP).The anxiety of neutral diplomats in

| London is growing at the possible imminence of Italy's entry into the war.

Many diplomats believe that Mussolini may order Italian troops to move in the very near future.

Reports that Mussolini has ordered the Italian Ambassador in Madrid to return immediately to Rome to ~~This area-comprising the Ardennes-mountain. -AIR BATTLES ON A MAMMOTH SCALE · ARE join in the consultations now under way between Il Duce BELGIUM, and Aly Maher Pasha-have-heightened the uncertainty. rogion stretches from the Luxembourg border TAKING PLACE IN FRANCE AND westward to the Mouse.

LATEST REPORTS FROM THE WESTERN FRONT INDUCEMENT TO SPAIN INDICATE.

Several hundred British, French and German planes have apparently engaged in the world's greatest battle over Sedan, the French city on the Maginot Line which the Germans claim to have entered.

The Germans are on the right bank of the Meuse on which lies the important Belgian cities of Liege, Namur, Dinant and, in French territory, Sedan.

A "United Press" message Sedan, one of the big cities on the Franco-Belgian from Berlin quotes DNB as re border which was the scene of bitter fighting 25 years porting that 69 British and ago was evacuated yester. Belgian second line of defence and French planes

ton the Maginot Line inside the down over Sedan, day.

French border.

The Germans claim that it is now in their hands. This claim has now been substantiated by reports from Paris,

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE By HERBERT KING

UNITED PRESS WAR CONRESPONDENT PARIS, May 14 (UP)-A German mechanised column took Sedan, tho French border city, as the greatest battle of mechanised forces the world has ever seen continued along the i

Kunming Has

were brought Raid Alarm

There is no report from Another German mechanised Allied sources of the battle. column advanced on Dinant as Ger-

R.A.F. Bombers Active Bombers of the R.A.F., however,

Iman

bombers,

round forces, bombed and strafed

co-operating with

the French advance guards who had are engaged increasing numbers i contacted the ground forces.

attacking with the fullest possible

are

The French claim the first phase of vigour, the German armies which are the battle is nearly over in the Meuse engaged in the attempt to cross the and river sector, with Allied planes Meuse River between Namur heavily bombing the German rear- Bedan guards, slowing them up with heavyeuter", of the R.A.F. action, but it

No detalls

avaliable, says losses of life.

The Germans are concentrating is understood that every availablo thele greatest power along the RAF. machine that can take to the front in the Belgians, air has bien engaged in continuous PLEASE Turn To Page 7. operations,

Germany's Blitzkrieg alr altacks on Franco have increased in ferocity during the past 24 hours and through ! out yesterday air raida on north-east

Franco were continuous.

entire

HUGE GERMAN DRIVE TOWARDS NORTH SEA

}

By HERBERT, KING

Maternity Hospital Wrecked In one village sxmail maternity hospital was wrecked.

A large number of -elvillans have been killed.

A British Air Ministry communiqué

·ན says:

"The object of our air operations

troops.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

KUNMING, May 15 (UP)-Two squadrons of Japanese planes crossed into Yunnan Province from Kwangsi yesterday morn- ing.

The air raid alarm was sounded at Kunming at 10.10 m., and continued until 1.10 p.m.

The raiders are reported to have bombed. Kwelynng. No details are available.

DRAMATIC STORY

Eyewitness Toils Of Suddon Raids

Neutral sources envisage the possibility that. Italy- will try to induce Spain to join the Axis in military operations, in order to launch a land attack on Gibraltar

REFUGEES FLOCK TO LONDON

By ROBERT DAWSON

UNITED PRESS” STAFF

CORRESPONDENT)

LONDON," May 15 (UP)-~| Bedraggled, unshaven and, in

many

DUTCH YIELD ARMS Capitulation To The Germans

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

15

from the Spanish mainland. LONDON, May ported to have been installed at the Sierra Ronda.

According

German guns are already re- (Domei).-In obedience to

to reliable

commands of

the

neutral General Staff, Dutch troops sources, Italy has been pressing Egypt everywhere are surrender- to conclude a Non-Aggression Pact

and thus undermine the 1930 Anglo- ing their arms to the ad- Egyptian Alliance, Egypt, it is vancing Germans, who are claimed, has steadfastly

now meeting no resistance

meet the Italian wishes.

refused to

Gormans Massing

in

BASLE, May 13 (Domel)-Re-coast. ports persist that Germany is massing

their advance to the

Both Rotterdam and

cases, without shoes, large concentrations of troops on the Utrecht have been occupied, British, French and Dutch Swiss-German frontier.

refugees continued to pour into London last night - In-special trains.

They were herded into large halls, where their pasports were examined

to make sure there were no "Fifth Columnists" among them,

The

Americans Told

To EvacuateTM

By MILES HANDLER

("UNITED PRESS" STAFF

CORRESPONDENT)

according to a broadcast by Radio-Amsterdam.

A large part of the Dutch“ Army has, however, been con- centrated in Zeeland where the

PLEASE Tum To Pago 7.

LATEST

Dutch Set Fire To Oil Supplies

PARIS, May 14 (UP) Relations Netherlands High Command in- to-day tends to continue resistance in I arrived in London from Amster-between the Allies and Italy dam with three other "Unlied Press" entered a critical phase as the Ger-order to avoid complete capitu- correspondents who were included in man mechanised divisions and air. forces concentrated their efforts in the rotugees.

Mosclic Ardennes and We came across to an east coast the Mouse, port in a British warship.

sectors in a manoeuvre apparently We saw Queen Wilhelmina and intended to overwhitim' the left wing the Netherlands Government board of the Maginot

Roports reach

Paris of the two British destroyers which quickly whisited them across the North Sea. violent fallan press campaign and (UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)

Painful Business

student demonstrations throughout fight of many of the refugees the Peninsula, have created the im PARIS, May 14 (UP)—The fifth day of the great German

In the battle now developing in the attack through Belgium and Holland saw the offensive assume

LONDON, May 16, (Reuter), was a wretched and painful business, pression that an intensive anti-Allles Low Countries has been to harass

Many babies in their mother's arms movement has been synchronised a distinctly dual character. Firstly, and most important, the the enemy's communications and to Avivid description of condi-d not been led for over 24 hours with de German offensive and also

AMSTERDAM, May 14 (Domei), Germans have launched a terrific drive towards the North Sea. protect the advance of the Allied tions In-Holland-in the last few many of the sights were pliifat in has strengthened to Impression that

the situation is approaching a

the order by the Supreme pon Their main objective appears to be to gain control of the entire Throughout Monday and Tuesday South African.

days was given by a young the extreme.

A student at Mothers, sisters and wives kad left Following the fallan

Commander of the Netherlands Army area north of the River Schelde, which empties into the sea at night, our bombers continued to

ongarian governments calling up four to stop fighting, the Netherlands

10ven clogats of reservists Belgium's great seaport of Antwerp,

the struggle against the invading and attack the enemy on the roads, rail- Loydon, he has now arrived in their men-folk behind to carry ways and bridges leading to tho Britain.

hordes. Many will never be seen respectively; reports reached Paris forces defending Amsterdam im- Tho second objective is to When the two forces meet, the Dutch and Belgian battlefields They were awakened at a few gain

this afternoon from Belgrade that the mediately set fire to various oil minutes after four o'clock on Friday.

Dutch Jugo-Slavia Govemment had taken storages and many important ware-

ses in the city..... break through the Maginot Line world will reverberate to a clash

Roads Blocked

are now

retreating towards in the vicinity of Sedan or at such as it has never known before.

"Considerable damage has been morning by the sound of planes and Government members, who arrived additional military measures, bring- ing her armed forces to a total of Longwy. Longwy in the big| Two-Axis Offensive done to enemy lines of communics anti-aircraft fire, he says, and realised in a British cruiser.

that a war was on. Anxiously they Among the refugees was the Earl 700,000 men:

Queen Wilhelmina, who is now in Hon

The reports also said Jugo-Slavian London, to-day gave absolute power ”: French city near, where the The German offensivo is progress- The roads in Brabant. (Holland) walted round the wireless, Ustening of Chichester.

"It Was - Holl".

military. planes were to reports of German planes dropping Belgian,

constantly by radio to Lieut-Gen. Winckelman, Luxembourg・・ and ing on two axis. Firstly, they are have been successfully blocked." French borders, meet..

pouring through Belgium and Holland

Supreme-Commander of the Nether- "Further north or the Dutch battle parachute troops.

Meanwhile, they packed as much He fold me "When we left last patrolling the Adriatle const from Ancien (Aix-la-Chapelle) past fields, important

railway bridges

Warned To Leave italy.. lands Army, to direct Netherlands Race Against Timo

Liego and Manstricht in the direction were attacked and

a fro was seen of their possessions by thoy could night, most of Rotterdam was afire. "The Germans were stil landing

WASHINGTON, May, 14 (Reuter). affairs. of Brusels and Antwerp,

-chrry, leaving the rest with friends

parachutists."

Italy, are Secondly, they are driving, from to break out,

American citizens in Mr. Cordell Hull stated, at a Preis being warned to leave the country, conference todayım

On the one hand, a million and a

southwards,

-

....half ........ GezENAUS · ·aro - krishing · Thriri Coblenz and Trter through buxom-Qur fightór': aircraft, have, been who hope to be able to send it to. mechered units westwards and bourg towards the River Meure and constantly on patrol over the battle- South Africa ont day.

fleld and its: approaches. They walked around like this for The Meuse Valley.

"Our fighter pilota Inflicted on the two days, listening to its radio and The French claim that the heavy enemy to-day at least four times as watching from their windows Ger- Marinet 2 Line- „Fortifications •, a much darua fom as they themselves män parachute troops dropping |--PLEASE Turn To Page 7.

#uffered,!!

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An equal number of Belilah and French troops are rushing eastwards

•and: north-eastwarda::

Lord Halifax met the

I spoke to a wounded refugee from Brussols. Ho had been wounded by a bomb splinter,

.

and

Tili represents a change in the

"It was Hell,” ho, wald.; "The noise alone during the four. days continuous bombing was choogh Government's allitude towards the

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