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nation to win war IN OUR FAVOUR

LONDON, MAY 22 (REUTER) ——-TO-DAY IN THE HOUSE OF COM- MONS A STATEMENT ON "THE GRAVE SITUATION" WAS MADE BY` THE RT. HON. MR. C. R. ATTLEE, DEPUTY LEADER OF THE HOUSE. The statement was made after the questions had been put forward. ̈“I rise-to-inform the House," he said, “that the present situation is so critical that the Government is compelled to seek special powers from the House by a Bill to be passed through all its stages in both Houses of Parliament to-day.

"The situation is gravo.

"Every Member is fully aware of that and every Member is aware of the issues at stake.

CRITICAL WEEKS Tremendous Allied Pincer Movement

"A great battle is now

proceeding. Our men at sea, on land and in the air are fighting with splendid -courage, devotion and skill.”

(Cheers).

I

Continuing, Mr. Attlee said, "Our men are accompanied by freedom. loving people who are our Allies.

The result of that battle we

NAZIS TRAPPED

ON TWO SIDES

By RALPH HEINZEN

"UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, May 23 (UP).The great Allied armies of

cannot know, but it must be clear the north and centre last night massed their overwhelm-

to all that the next few weeks are critical.

"Our ruthless enemywhois

Ing forces on the thin flanks of the Germans on the plains

restrained by no considerations of of Picardy, between the Somme and Escaut River.

International- Law. justice or

humanity, Is

throwing everything.

inio senle to force a decision.

Slowly but surely, the two Allied armies are now

"We are resolved that he shall not squeezing the long, thin German line-much the same as

succeed.

-Ta-Mobiliso-All-ResourcOS--

a giant press crushes anything placed between its jaws

By MILES HANDLER (UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT)

.

PARIS, MAY 23 (UP).—ALTHOUGH IT IS TOO EARLY YET TO PROPHESY, IT

BLITZKRIEG GERMAN

TO THE COAST HAS BEEN APPEARS THAT THE HALTED ALMOST WITHIN SIGHT OF ITS OBJECTIVE.

This hopeful news comes three days after the earlier drive on Paris had been halted and flung back at the Aisno. ISOLATION THREAT

"The Government is convinced that as General Weygand, flying across the German lines._._._. now is the time when we must to hasten the disposition of his troops, began the application of Marshal Foch's elementary ́principle of

mobilise 10 the full the whole resources of this country.

"We must throw all our weight inlo the struggle. Every private tactics-"the best defence is a strong attack.”

Interest must

give

way to the urgent)

The anxiety with which the German High

The German mechanised forces which pushed ahead of the main army at Cambrai is now reported to be facing the threat of isolation as a result of the re-capture by French troops of

the bomb-torn city of Arras.

BETH

OSTENDZ

BRUGES

Boullen:

WAYNIAU

Command is

need of the community.

"We cannot know what the next viewing the latest Allied operation is indicated by the feverish few weeks or even days may bring forth, but whatever may come, we manner in which they are attempting to pour reinforcements in- shall meet it as the British peoplo to the deepest part of the pocket at present held only by small In the past have met dangers and, but vigorously aggressive motorised units.

overcome them.

Completo Control

"But is necessary that the Government should be given com- plete control over persons and pro perly. Net filst some persons or some particular class of the com munity but over all persons, rich or

WONDERFUL GALLANTRY

poor, employer or worker, man or AND GRIT

woman or property.

"It is for these powers that I am

asking the House to-day.

"I do not ask for them in a spirit Mr. Duff Cooper's

of pante: There is no need to panic

but we are asking that in this emer

gency we should be given the re-

quisite powers th

that may be needed, "In order to pass the Bill through

procedure motion without notice.

"The Government has asked to

Invasion Of Eire Feared

Tribute To B.E.F.

Severe Blow To Nazis

The re-capture of Arras by the Allies is a severe blow to the Ger- mans, for 1 immediately nullifies the earlier mechanised drive towards the Channel, which took the German motor-cycle vanguard to Abbeville and, It was claimed by the Germans. Lo Torquet.

The German "Panzer" division Is now nowwhere west of Arras in this sector.

Despite the exultant German radio claims that the vital British, French

the

the

Montdidier

· Complèque

STOLENTIN

SOISSONS

LENCIENNE

MAP ILLUSTRATING yesterday's fighting. The German mechanis

ed vanguard. Is reported to be siilt.at-Abbeville, where it is cut off from

taking place around Cambrai, which the French are attacking from the

Picked shock troops participated in the counter-attack on Arras, which is 55 miles from the coast and 40 miles from Abbeville, the nearest point the German mechanised vanguard succeeded in penetrating towards the coast. CHAOTIC BATTLE

Was

A chaotic battle is now raging still further in the interior around the strategic city of Cambrai,

A large-scale counter-attack in this sector ordered by General Weygand, the new Supreme Comman der of the Allied-forces, after he had personally-flown over the German lines to inspect the situation. FURIOUS ATTACKS

The furious Allied attack on Cambrai is being. launched from two directions.

The French forces are attacking from the south and west.

Simultaneously, the British and Belgian forces which the Germans earlier claimed had been effectively sur- rounded and bottled in the Valenciennes arca launched a large-scale attack from the north, smashing into the right flank of the invaders just north of Cambrai. SITUATION SUMMARISED

The situation is therefore as follows:

Far from surrounding the British and Belgian forces. in the north, the Germans who have pushed west of Cambrai are now in imminent danger of being pinched off and surrounded

The German lines to Amiens and other points west the German rear, Arras has reverted to the Allies and heavy fighting is of Cainbral are being maintained through this narrow south and west and the British and Belgian from the north. Asia com bottleneck which is being threatened on both sides by the.. parison, the alluation on the previous day is also shown by the black por- tion of the may, which represents the paint of exireme penetration of the Allies. main German forces, following the mechanised units which had penetrat ed firstly to'. Arras and, secondly through Amians to Abbeville. can be seen, the heaviest fighting (around Cambrai) is now further from both the cost and. Paris,

MORE DRAMATIC RAIDS

BY THE R.A.F.

NAZIS CUT OFF.

As a result of the recapture by the French of Arras, the small detachment of German troops operating west- French wards in the vicinity of Abbeville are, says o report, already sliced off from their rear.

Belgian and Dutch forces in the north had been cut off by the rapid Ger

and Amlens LONDON, May 22 (Reuter)man advance. Arras

tho force in this area numbers be- all stages it is necessary to move theIn the firing lino men from a tween 600,000 and 1,000,000 men the over the British Commonwealth entire Allied Army is still completely House to acquiesce in this procedure of Nations are fighting with mobile and is separated from

the Ger- in view of the grave peril in which wonderful gallantry and grit, armies of the centre by a thin zone

said Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, the new precariously held by the

man motorised columns. the nation stands to-day.

Thus, if General Weygand desires. "The resolution is in precisely the Minister of Information, in a sume form as that which was moved broadcast to the Empire to the Allfed troops in the nerth can effect Juncture with the French PLEASE Tum To Pago 7.

night.

The B.E.F. will yet show the Ger- forces in the south simply by maching

thin' German lines. mans, to their cost, of what the men through

So secure is General Weygand in of the British Empire are made.

of that the German claims The RAF have played a heroic the belief:

When the history of that, the northern Allied armies aro part, he said. this ballo comes to be written, it surrounded and in imminent danger

LONDON, May 22 (Reuter)-—The Air Ministry announces will perhaps be recorded that the are fantastic that he has made no men of the RAF, from for an wide move to effect a brenk-through that during last night large formations of bombers carried out

For the Jresent, therefore, General in the British Commonwealth saved Commons Questions France, and Engind, and all we hold Waygard is providing the best operations on military objectives and key points in Rhenish

and defeat northern Allied armies are remain Prussia,^: diegater precious, from

they Ing where

are,; executing Hitler's Boundless Lust

all-orders.. LONDON," May 22 (Reuter). S

t The possibility of a German

To-day the situation perhaps to with perfect mobility and freedom invasion of Elre is causing congraver than at any me in the last and taking up the dispositions by tered on bridges, railway june-

The Germans admit, that Ailled That does not mean that defeat which they will participate in the tions and rolling stock cern to many members of the is on the horizon, but the gravity of great counter-attack now beginning Stavanger

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Router), pressure in the Cambral sector la i was seen burring as our aircraft left. wouth House of Commons, Iteuters" the position does mean that we must in the Cambral sector.

Senate has passed the: $1,823,

recaptured by: the French. Parliamentary correspondent steel ourselves for news of reverse.

and that all the dangers of war have the north and those in the been brought much closer to those are actually only about 35 miles All day yesterday our fighter al000,000 Topolari a severe, but deny that Arras has been apart, The head of the northern craft carried out protective pures in which Includes out of the mosiey It is admitted that the Allied whose duty lies in the British Isles.

nome of France's best- "We know that there are no

tween Valenciennes, and Combras: Belgium and Northeiz"France. Many Emergency, Débanoj, Hill;

engagements were Zoutht and at least at now furtu to the House of equipped: elite troops."

Representatives Lox action seriously damagedy Treate PLEASE Turn To Paga}7.3% receive a deputation to said Mt. Duff-Cooper, and we know while the head of the southern army 21 enemy aircran were destroyed Dr

armendments: 07 in what contempt he holds all ETEK F, EMBE

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Big Sum For U.S. Army

The French roport claims that the loft bank of the Somme be- held behind fortified positions. low Amiens is now being firmly Reports from Berlin daim, that the 30 mile foothold along Engilsh Channel, but this is regarded sceptically in neutral quarters.

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