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TWO ALLIED ARMIES ESTABLISH CONTACT, ISOLATE NAZI FORCES

Channel Fighting

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"'

GERMAN ADVANCE FORCES GREAT REPORTED IN SERIOUS BATTLE POSITION AS NET CLOSES RAGING

AS THIS EXTRA EDITION OF THE “TELEGRAPH WAS British Warships GOING TO PRESS THIS AFTERNOON, AN URGENT "UNITED PRESS" MESSAGE FROM LONDON STATES THAT THE GREAT ALLIED COUNTER-OFFENSIVE BETWEEN ARRAS, CAMBRAI AND BAPAUME HAS SUCCEEDED IN CLOSING THE GAP IN THE LINES BETWEEN THE ALLIED FORCES IN THE NORTH AND THOSE IN THE SOUTH.

Shell Coast

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, May 25 (UP).- Military quarters state that

a big battle is raging in the Abbeville region.

French forces are engag ing the enemy mechanised

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The message adds that the repart cannot at present be confirmed. and motorised units which EARLIER MESSAGES

poured troops through Amiens and Bapaume to- wards the coast.

Earlier messages stated, however, that it was certain that the Allied forces had made substantial progress towards closing the gap since

The French are said to have Wednesday.

blocked the enemy motorised 4. p.m. (11 p.m. H.K.T.) yesterday,

unit in the St. Omer region,

United Press” had

where they were seeking to pro-reported, the two Allied forces were reported to be within 12 miles of tect the German right flank -near--Boulogne.

Shelled By Warships LONDON, May 25, (UP)-In a supreme effort to forestall Hitler's threatened-Blitzkrieg-against Britain! the British Navy to-day shelled the roads along the Belgian side of the Channel, while the French Army at- lacked near Abbeville.

their

The Germans Resist that motorised units are striking north- ward along the coast and would soon vecupy-all-important-ports, ----

Refugees arriving here state that the British warships shelled the out- skirts of Boulogne on Friday. Ger man artillery on land retaliated against the warships.

each other, thus reducing the gap by 13 miles in GREAT WAR 24 hours.

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The effect of the closure of this gap may well be IN LONDON historic.

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Through the gap the entire German mechanised Police Round Upforces now operating along the English Channel effected

Von Rintelen their advance.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH**

Once the gap is closed (and providing, of course, that LONDON, May 25 (UP) the union of the two Allied forces can be maintained), last night across the Channel, light-saboteur in the last War, Captain the German forces west of Arras and. Amiens-those

A tremendous are ruged all night Germany's greatest spy and

ing up the sea for miles around. Franz von Rintelen, has been operating in the Channel area-are

Situation Grave

LONDON, May 25 (Reuter). It is arrested in

London this afternoon that the situa- interned.

London by the

completely cut off

learned in authoritative quarters in British authorities and is now from their rear, with all the drastic consequences this

entails.

tion is very grave, but the form of Since Hitler gained power in warfare employed by the Germons

Jus weaknesses as well as strength. Germany, Rintelen has been THREAT REMOVED

There is no reason for loss of con-living in England, where he has fidence.

professed to be an ardent An-

A co-ordinated Allied effort Con glophile and

still retrieve the altuation,

Boulogne Held

May 25

At the same time, the so-called German threat of

violent anti-Nazi. encircling the British, French, Belgian and Dutch forces Eighteen months ago Captain Rin- telen expressed bis intention of operating in the North is removed. PARIS,

(Reuter) applying for British naturalisation. Boulogne was silll in Allied hands His application was sponsored hy late this afternoon, a French military Sir Reginald Hall, the war-time code spokesman said to-night.

He added that Colals is strongly expert who was responsible for his Press" flashes:

arrest In 1918. defended by the French.

Situation Confused

Here are the reports, as received in urgent “United

Capinin von Rintelen was regarded AMIENS RECAPTURED as one of the master-aples of the PARIS, May 25 (Router)-A mill-German Secret Service in the 1914- lary spokesman stated to-night that 18 war. the situation at Boulogne is still con fused.

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PARIS, May 26 (UP)—The "Paris-Soir" reports that the French forces have wiped out a German bridgehead: and have reoccupied Amiens, on the southern bank of the

Hard Oghting is continuing there. As a Lieutenant Commander in the He added that the Germans had German Navy he went to the United not reached Calais al 7.15 p.ro. to-day, įstates in 1915. He and another Somme.

The battle of Flanders WAB "only German started business as E. V. Just beginning," he said.

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An official French war communique states that the man chemist. They had two compart-French forces have consolidated their position on the ments, the explosive in me and an acid in the other which gradually ate Somme. They have taken a number of prisoners.. Its way through and caused an ex- plosion.

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THE TELEGRAPII" has, in-the pist, suppressed numerous reports emanating from Berlin and other German sources. Bat it does not belleve that the interests of its rea It has been disclosed, in ters or of the Allied caus would

LATEST

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LONDON, May 25 (UP)-The

LONDON, May 25 (Reuter). drive against the fifth column here

In-

was to

ahos resulted in reports that docu- be served by further suppression of signal from the First Lord of ments found in the possession of an any news passed by the censors and the Admiralty to the Comman-dicated that this week-end

Irish Republican Army offseer therefore publishes the following despatches with the warning that, der-in-Chief of the Netherlands have been the zero hour for an armed

should be treated with reserva

governments. and sumpfeton.-Ed.)

marines, which were just com- Public uncasiness has Increased, armed guards have been doubled ́and pleted at Rotterdam, BERLIN, May 25 (UP),~~~Au-

were wire entanglements havo been magnetic deepened around vital buildings in thorised quarters state that the navigated through a

Londen as sixty persons, including a next German move will be to- mine-field and brought safely to in Joining Generalissimo

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described

as being connected England.

with

the United States Embassy, have Weygand's forces in the south of the wards England. gap, the Germáns in the Channel

been arrested as Afth columnists. region will be cut off.

Moto arrests are expected shortly and many hundreds of suspects are now being det

detained in

the London

sa they are of German origin, ther Navy, that two Dutch sub-uprising against the Eire and Ulster

The Allies are holding Arrns on the north side of the gap.

They have made progress farther cuthward near Bapaume.

Channel Parts Hold

The Germans claim that ', their thrusts, have sliced off two-thirds of Þet the ground previously held by the Allies In Flanders and Picardy,

The Germans are now making a new thrust in an attempt to split the Allled army- and-thrust-north-to-the- Channel from Vimy Ridge.

Between 3 and 4 o'clock this Mr. Robert Hale, Republican candi- board steamers carrying munitions morning continuous artillery fire date for Congress, declared in with the result that whom the ex was exchanged between the Sieg speech:

plosions occurred the vessels either Ten thousand American aéroplanes sank or caught fire. After a time fried and Maginot Lines, fighting in France to-day could save the firm actually got contracts to The French artillery fire was supply munitions and general equip- a million American lives.

Adequate protection for the United ment to Russia. so that their bombs apparently concentrating on a Stales entails the destruction of Hitler had not oven to be smuggled

o nearby German fortress. The and all that he slands for nt the board.

German military sources claim that earliest possible moment by what- Eventually, however, the Ameri-thundering artillery duel awoke

prisoners and ever means that appear most appro-cans got on the track of Rintelen's many inhabitants in Basle white "PARIS May 25 (UP) The two mourung booty, are stendily

cigars" and he fled from the country.) the flashes from guns, were plain Allied armies, are reported to ba salling under a forged Swiss pass-ly visible.

within twelve miles of each other tinues to bomb Allied troop concen- They say the German air force con- HOME DEFENCE port.

between. Bapaume and Peronne fa trations and anti-aircraft positions, Arras In Our Hands Tricked By Code Expert

the great placer operation in the also quays, oil tanks, docks and -BATTALIONS

LONDON, May 25, (UP) The northern French, corridor.

wharves and artillery positions His ship was bounded off the

At 7 o'clock this evening a French French and Belgian ports. London, May 25 (Reuter)--The Engilsh coast and on being taken German capture of Boulogne and the

that the One destroyer, seven, merchants War Office announces that it has been ashore he was recognised by a waiter. claim that they have entered Calsis military source stated

clarandowed by the great balle French were holding Boulogne and transports totalling 20,000 tons decided to form additional companies Taken to London, he tried to bluff

„* have "beer" "destroyed or badly for certain Horne Defence battalions but Admiral Hall war too clever for now raging in the south, where he and Calab..

military for special duiles in Britain.

him and he was sent back to Now fate of the Channel ports is actually

He also predicted that the gap be damaged by bombings, decided. Age limila will be 10 to 104. York, where he went to prison.

tween the northern and southern Al- sources claim.

Parachute troops have succeeded in It is intended to transfer the men, Rintelen told of these adventures Despite the reticence of communi- lied armies Would soon be closed, when

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***** More » Annihilations, 20 Men engaged in munitions and the closest of friends, and the former in closing the gap by which the

The gap was 25 miles wide shipbuilding or in undertakings pro- SPV was principal guest at the well- Germans creached the Boulogne 16- Thursday but it was considerably re- ducing army supplies are advised to ding in 1934 of Miss Faith Hall. His gion.

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PATULOGE AMAZONES DBS of 29. 10 the in his book "The Dark Invader." ques, il segms certain that the Allies! thuş -isolating›iho" German force on landing at Narvik to aid the belea-:

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WOUNDED ARRIVING

British Casualties

Cross Channel

OFICIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

area alone preparatory to a nation- wide clean up.

All-"parashoolers-are-being-armed, on Sunday morning ns fears arise of a. possible German descent through Ireland, possibly with the aid of the 1.K.A.

400,000 Men LONDON, May 25 (UP)- Join Parashooters Hundreds of: B.EF. wounded LONDON, May 25 (UP)—I£ | Is soldiers are arriving in England. ometally announced that the number of anti-parachute corps throughout Scores of them are stretcher Britain is approximately 400,000.

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They describe the hand to hand Oghting la Belgium. Aihe: troops dropping in clouds.

The German High Command claims machine-gunning tighten od

chil-

that the annihilation" of the French dron, destroying villages and bomb-

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