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Generalissimo Weygand Feels confident that tide of battle has turned as-

STRATEGIC RETREAT COMES TO END

ALLIES' FROM BELGIUM

NEXT FEW DAYS MAY DECIDE FATE OF WAR

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WITH THE FRENCH FORCES, MAY 25, (UP)—THE STRATEGIC RETREAT FROM BELGIUM HAS ENDED.

THE ALLIED FORCES ARE NOW ALIGNED ON THE LINE THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO DEFEND.

THIS LINE RUNS FROM GHENT TO VALENCIENNES, TO CAMBRAI, TO PERONNE, TO LAON, TO RETHEL AND AROUND TO SEDAN IN THE NORTH.

It is firmly held and, at the time of telegraphing this despatch, there seems no passibility that the Germans will be able to break through.

Behind the firm Allied lines, the German mechanised units which penetrated north-westwards towards the coast are completely isolated.

They rely for petrol upon any bowsers they can raid and for ammunition upon their own limited supplies.

They have insufficient petrol to force their way back to the main German Army.

WEYGAND FEELS

DISASTER

HAS BEEN AVERTED

By RALPH HEINZEN

UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, MAY 25 (UP).—THE WHOLE FORCE OF THE -ALLIED-ARMIES WHICH WERE...IN RETREAT......ACROSS. BELGIUM AND NORTHERN FRANCE HAVE NOW TURN- ED ROUND ALONG NEW STRATEGIC POSITIONS AND THE GERMANS, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEY STARTED THEIR BLITZKRIEG, ARE FACING THE FULL FORCE OF ALLIED RESISTANCE.

General Weygand, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, went- yesterday morning to the scene of the Battle of Flanders, which he is now personally commanding.

NAZI ARMY ENCIRCLED ?·

Apparently delighted with the fighting spirit of the Allied armies, he flew back to Paris at noon and personally reported to M. Reynaud that within a few hours he hopes to say that the WHOLE DISASTROUS SITUATION HAS BEEN WELL AVERTED AND THAT THE GERMAN ARMY ITSELF IS ENCIRCLED IN A POCKET.

the Allied

As soon as this manoeuvre is accomplished, Supreme Commander will permit the main Allied armies to adopt the defensive and hold the encircled German forces until the *lost battalions" of German tanks have been cleaned up. FRENCH H. Q. ADMISSION

The French military leaders make no secret of the fact that the whole disastrous German penetration was due to a break through several poor divisions in the French Ninth Army.

The German General Staff were swift to seize upon the advan tage this break through gave them.

Now, however, there can be no withdrawal and it has become quite apparent that the General Staff is staking the whole outcome of the war on the battle, "

Nazi Planes Routed

LONDON, May 24 (Reu- ter). — The Air Ministry. announces that while... on - -- patrol over the French coast this afternoon, 11 of our fighters encountered a much larger enemy force.

Without loss to them- "selves, they attacked-and- shot down 11 Messersch-: mitts and seriously damaged three others.

ATTEMPT TO KILL TROTSKY

Exile's Bedroom Machine-Gunned

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BRUSSELS BURNS-DRAMATIC AIR MAIL PICTURE

INCREDIBLE AND HORRIFYING damage caused to Brussels, Belgium's capital after a series of ralds by Nazl shortly before the city capitulated to the invaders. Here, in the first picture published in Hongkong of the German

rape of Belgium, we see firemen attempting to extinguish a blaze caused an incendiary bomb..........

What

Hitler

Hopes To Do

Offensive Directed.

· At England

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHIN

MEXICO CITY, May 24 (UP). Twenty unidentified gunmen to- day attempted to assassinate Mi

NEW YORK, May 25 Leon Trotsky, the exiled Rus- (Domel)-Hitler's major offen- sian leader, by machine-gunning eive which will be directed at his bedroom in his home at England will be preceded by mass aerial and naval attacks, Coyoacan,

The outrage occurred at 4 a.m. reports Louis Lochner, Associat- the machine-gunning lasting for a jed Press correspondent who ar- quarter of an hour.

rived at the, Channel coast Thursday with the German Army.

Rolled From Beds

Kent People See Fire

In France

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, May 25 (UP). -Thousands of people lined the diff on the southeast coast of England early this 'morning and saw the glare of a big fre from the coast of France.

TO-DAY'S RACING RESULTS

"

M. Trotsky, and his wife Natalia escaped the hall of bullets by rolling | Although Gormans are unlikely to In an effort to avert the menace Piloted by British, French, Belgian from their beds on to the floor.

launch a full-dress offensivo againet of General Weygand's new tactics, and Polish aviators, they lore at the

The would-be assassins also threw England immediately since they are the Germans are throwing fresh German roads and rallways, the thermos bottles containing incen- Intent upon crushing all Allied oppo-

roops, tanks and artillery into action Allied laterference with the derman diary fuld through the windows.

lilor in northern Belgium ind along the Estaut niver.

bottle-neck at Aachen (Alx-la- The fluid started two fres, which France, and behind the lines, Lochner Nazis Rush Reinforcements Chapelle) proving particularly suc- Mme Tr

Trotsky extinguished with says that Germany's major drive will

CARPENTARJA HANDICAP. For These men and materials are be- cessful in the day's operations

blankets.

be preceded by an attempt to destroy Australion Subscription ponies of this Hlaved to have been rushed up from Allied Positions Maintained Subsequently, M. Trotsky charged ions by air and by combined attack this club, barred. Jockey allowance. British Naval, air and land organisa-| season. Winners at race meetings of tho Swiss frontier, where there has SPECIAL TO THE “TELLORAPH"

that the attack had been organised of speed-boats, been, a noticeable thinning of the

submarines, pric PARIS.

One mile May (Domel)-A by the Russian OGPU under Stalin's bombers on British transports and

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Cocos's Drown Darky 147 15. ... German reserves.

French High Command communique direct orders, The fatigue of two week's com-states that all positions along the "Sixth Sonso" Saved Life

warships.

(D, Black) 1 Initial tinuous-fighting-and-movement with Semme River have been maintained.

attempts at continuous CWK's Maple Star 140 b

(8. W. Pan) 2) 'full packs' is telling heavily on the

bombings, at Ostend, Dunkirk Ind", B. T. Willinson'a les Jay lid b Germani attempts to penetrate According to a private guard, M. Dieppe are already in progress.

1. A. Proulx) 3 Germans, and there has boen s moest behind the

Maginot

fortifications Trotsky's life was saved as a result

Won by two lengths; three lungie. evident Klackening of the Naal effort south of Sedan have been checked. of his sixth sense."

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Including

Boveralissenchmitt out of bed and lay flat on the floor to This slackening is also partly fighters, according to an offcial escape the raiders bullets, explained by the dimeuitics of communique.

The intruders apparently used a organised supplies and communica

Truse to enter Trotsky's home which tions, owing to the very poor lines: of communication in the German rear difficulties which have been further complicated by the intense nature of the Allied serie activities Allies: Usa U.S. Planes The British and French Air Force

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Americas Protest To Belligerents

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Po-chun's Conquering Tims il ib.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH Official Communique SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRIPA"

is surrounded by a high wall, and Twenty-one American republics have

WASHINGTON, May 24 (UP) PARUS, May 24 (UP)-The 528th bodyguards Inside and

constantly guarded by five additionál

protested to Britain and Germany special a omial communique says that violent patrol of police outside.

concerning the violation of the Pan- encounters have been going on for The guard sold the raiders fral American-safely-zone-by-the-soul-sales-L4· Po-shun's-246--Feather-181 Tb. ----- several days in the north of France, overpowered and bound the

iling of the German freighter Han cially in the region of Combral policemen after which they mind over in the presence of a British and Artor.

warship on March 9,.stinato at kal

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entry to the house,

A law of them

The cricounters have extended to were droue in uniforms of humor Homon NIT of American planes into theje'opera..

the regions of St-Omer and Bulosmaz GLS COL tions for the first Line Stanly and iflar huve prevented the restora, kidnapping Mr. Sheldon, who was Road has reported to the police the these planes, had left New York only tion of the continuity of the whole chlef guard on night duty. He is still theft of jewellery and clothing worth

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TERRIBLE. 'QUAKE

Over 100 Killed In Peru

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LIMA, May 24 (UP)—At least 103 are dead and, it la esti- mated, 1,000 others injured fol- lowing Per's most disastrous earthquake in 50 years, which to-day rocked the entire sea- coast, toppled houses and severed all communications.

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More than 1,000 houses have been destroyed at Lima and Callao,

The epicenter:was at Callao where the deaths and the damage are re- ported to be most disastrous-58 todles are lying in the Callao morgue and 32 in the morgue at Lima. In addition, 11 ore reported at De La Vista and two at San Miguel.

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French And Nazi Troops Withdrawn

SPECIAL TO, THE "TELEGRAPH" BASLE, May 24 (Domel)-Ger- man and French troops have been withdrawn from the Swiss border as a result of the Intensifcation of fighting on the Belgian fronts.

Both forces have also withdrawn men from the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, and have drafted them to the Belgian and French battlefronts.

US. To Register 3,500,000 Aliens

MORTION HAYANDIDATO The Attomey General of the United Australian subscription: ponies, "D" States announces that the: 8,500,000

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