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TOUNIÆD 1881 No. 10157

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1940. 三拜禮號二月五英港香

日六十月四

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German General Admits No Illusions, Says-

GREAT BATTLE FOR CHANNEL PORTS NOW IMMINENT

By RICHARD MCMILLAN

UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, MAY 22 (UP).—I HAVE JUST RETURNED TO LONDON FROM THE B.E.F. HEADQUARTERS IN FLANDERS.

THE B.E.F. IS TO-DAY FIGHTING TO HOLD THE ONLY CHANNELS OF COMMUNICA- TION IN THE NORTH OF FRANCE, NAMELY, THE PORTS OF CALAIS, OSTEND AND BOULOGNE.

NEAR LE TORQUET

The Germans are completing their encircling movement in the drive to Abbeville and thence up the coast to Le Torquet. They may reach Le Torquet at any hour.

5,000,000 Refugees In Distress

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, May 21. (UP). The Director of American Red Cross icti- vities in Europe has cabled' Washington headquarters, stating that five million French-and-Belgian-re- fugees are making tre- mendous inroads on France's food supplies.

"It is impossible to ex- aggerate the refugee pro- blem." he cabled.

"The impact on all food supplies is staggering.

"The plight of large num- bers of refugee children who have been lost or orphaned is indescribably poignant."

NAZI TROOPS BOMBED

Hitler's triumph in separating the French

Italy Will

Will and British armies is now recognised by the Not Wait

To Strike Before Decisive Hour

*SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"...

Allied Supreme Command as being due to, firstly, the superiority of German air power and, secondly, to the perfection and speed of the tanks.

The German tanks possess mobility, fire-power and resistance which the Allied believed impossible.

Bombers operating with the German ground troops ROME, May 21 (UP)-Ger- sowed fire and ruin along the lines of communication. many's envoy, General von Epp, |

was received by Mussolini at the BATTLE NOT YET FOUGHT

Palace of Venice-to-day.

Signor Ansaldo, writing in "Il Telegrafo", the organ of the Italian Foreign Office, declares that Italy will fake action before victory is certain on either side,

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Italy will move before the decisive German Army, told foreign correspondents at his Jour, "_ho_writes....

"She will set before the fate of the Headquarters to-day that the decisive battle of the war new Europe is fixed.

"The hour is approaching in which, had yet to be fought,

with our own means, we will reach our objectives."

Press Campaign

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, May 21 (UP)-The Italian Press still continues the campaign against Britain and France.

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So far, he admitted, the encounters had been only "preliminary."

"We have won the first trick," he said. "But we have yet to meet the main body of the enemy."

Allegations of British repressive measures fill the "Messagero" and BIG ALLIED ARMIES

"Tevere,"

The Belgrade correspondent of France and Britain, he said, had two Army Corps

"Popolo di Roma describes heighten-|

ing tension in Yugo-Slavia and states drawn up against the German salients.

that Yugo-Slav troops are concen- trating in the Hungarian sector of the frontier,

War Fever Mounts ROME, May 21 (Reuter)The

He asserted that German losses totalled less than one-tenth of the number of prisoners taken.

"Germany has no illusions about the war, and we propaganda is preparing the man in are not indulging in any unjustifiable celebrations in

Shattering R.A.F.cuinulative effect of "Now or Never"

Attacks

the street for what many regard na

an inevitable decision-for many now advance," General von Reicheneau concluded. believe that Italy's entry into the war:

The war atmosphere has been

"We know the great battle must come."

LONDON, May 21 (Reuter). Is only a question of days. -The Air Ministry announces that yesterday morning Blen-heightened by the Increased air BACK TO THE WALL

nctivity in all principal centres,

heim aircraft made a successful Troops in field kil were marching attack on armoured vehicles in through Rome to-day.

the Arras and Cambral area.

In the afternoon, heavy bomb-

ing attacks were made in the

Arras and Bapaume area.

All our aircraft returned.

By RICHARD MCMILLAN UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT WITH THE B.E.F., May 22 (UP).The British being Expeditionary Force has its back to the wall in the great The first batches are leaving to-Battle for the Chaunel Ports. day and to-morrow for French

Gibraltar Evacuation GIBRALTAR, May 21 (Reuter).- Women and children are

evacuated from Gibraltar.

• compulsor

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During the night, a, large force of Morocco.

The Germans are rapidly completing their drive R.AF. bombers, attacked trooj con- It is officially announced that thei centrations in the Cambral, Le Cateau Governor has received Instructions towards the coast, which they are endeavouring to reach and St, Quentin area,

from the War Cabinet to the effect Continuous Engagements that owing to the international at a point between Abbeville and Le Touquet.

situation, the evacuation of women If and when this movement is completed, the British In the forest of Nouvion, north of

from children

Gibraltar would

orces in the north will be cut off from the French forces in the forthwith at the Alsne, a successful, ättack was bo

outh, with the British in possession of a triangle from Ostend made on enemy troops and several Governor's discretion.

A separate announcement states large fires were started.

• Vallenciennes and from Vallenclennes to Boulogne. From-these-operations five-of-our-that-there is no need for anxiety! aircraft failed to return.

regarding the intentions of Spain, The British forces in this sec- strict tor, therefore, will have no al- tornativo but to face the enemy King Of Thai Leaves in the north, the east and the BANGKOK, May 22 (UP)—It south in an attempt to hold the reported here that the boy King of only retreat to the Channel in That is leaving Switzerland very soothe west--the ports of Calnis, LONDON, May 21 (Router).----

Boulogne, Ostend and Dunkirk. German troops moving over the and going to the routh of France. battlefield of ⠀ Arras, Bapaume, St

There he will plan his future move-

Systomatic Arson Quentin and Cambrai were subjected ments, either to return to Thailand or to repeated attacks by R.A.F. aircraft go to America. through Monday night, slates the Air Ministry Air Service.ee

To-day, our bomber and fighter which 1189 relterėled her aircraft were continuously engaged neutrality. in operations over a confused night- front in Belgium and northern ing France.

Repeated Attacks

Frontier Closed

The official French analysts of yesterday's operations states that the mnde SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” rapid German advance wàs Tanks, armoured cars, troop, trans- SKOPIJE, May 22 (Domel) → possible with systematic arson in the ris and other reinforcements were The Italian Goverment has famed entire region west of Cambrai.

were dropped

vigorous attacked detsember

located and attacked a mile-long pro- cosalon of motor transport, the

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General Not A Prisoner

Another German Canard Denied

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ PARIS, May, 21 (UP)/Military sources state that General Giraud several times.escoped capture

enemy found: hla radio. ifans. The

For Enemy Parachutists

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LONDON, May 21 (UP)-In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Churchill announced that all stages of the Treachery Bill whereby the death penalty will be infileted on parachutists landing in civilian clothes-will be heard on Wednesday.

Simultaneously all stages are

to be taken in a Bill amending the National Service and Armed Forces Act which will make. legal the status of "parashooters -anti-parachutist contingenta.

FAITH IN ALLIES

London Press Not Possimistic

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Pres. Roosevelt And

Nazi Tactics

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuter), -At the Press conference to-day, President Roosevelt sold enemy planes were sweeping down the roads of France with machine guns wide open, taking a death toll of refugees the like of which has never been seen. before.

He thought the United States would realise the implications of that jmethod of warfare.

Three Points of Policy

The President enundated three points of polley in connection with the general discussion of the defence programme:

(1) Not a single war millionaire us the result of the war disaster abroad;

(2) Labour shanid not seek to take. advantage of the current emergency situation;

(3) The Government proposed in Do way to weaken the social gains made in the past two years.

5,000,000 Evacuoci In Flight With reference to the word "im~ LONDON, May (Router)plication," President Roosevelt did While not concealing the critical not reveal what he thought the Im- phase of the military situation, news-plication should be, but remarked papers express absolute faith in the that the United States was pretty determination of the nation to face well united in the current situation. The faster the news came from with stoicism the struggle ahead,

Europe the more united the American however hard it may be,

All are convinced that final victory people became, will be brought about by this grim The President added that 3,000,000 determination

fleeing backed by every women and children were ounce of energy.

southward in France along a 200-mile The determination of the French front, using every available road, people is also seen in M. Raynaud's mostly afoot or in carts, with many speech which is described as courage enemy planes gunning them.

Roosevelt made a very ous and realistic.

Lot Prospect Bo Faced deep impression. even on the hard- The Daily Telegraph" says "Let bolled Pressmen-with-bis-quiet, but the prospect be faced. Our country obviously heart-feit denunciation of is now close to the front of battle, the German machine-guning of flee- We shall low how to endure the ing French women, children and old worst that may come, defy it and men.

strike back with increasing power. --

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"M. Raynaud's declaration... that France would fight on to the end is answered In Great Britain. We are also unshaiten in our confidence that the two great united nations grid empirex

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The Times" anys: "It is well that

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuter)-When....... we should centerplate the black side. Hope never need be abandoned in war began its debate on the Army Supply Bill- to-day, Mr. Claude Peper, one of the Democrat members for Florida, declared that while forces remain in being."

in the next few days in the European war "may mark the turn-st Virtue In Franknosi Referring to M. Reynaud's accounting-point-of-elvilläation."

on order closing the Yugoslavian Incendiary bomberto underwent mitter and since then, the French have

The order has grown the Yugo-Amiens, Arras and other important had no news from him of the mistakes on the Meuse, the He submitted a resolution permitting President Rodesvall to Slavian people into a state of alurin French towns being swept tromi end

It was made almost simultaneously to end by famés,

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