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May 26, 1940.

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LONDON, MAY 26 (UP)—MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE GERMAN AIR RAID ON EAST ANGLIA AND-YORKSHIRE YESTERDAY -THE FIRST-RAIDS OF THE WAR IN WHICH CIVILIAN AREAS HAVE BEEN THE TARGETS MAY BE THE PRELUDE TO MASS BLITZKRIEG RAIDS ON ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.

THEIR COMMANDS Estuary in Essex to North Riding in Yorkshiro..

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The area visited by the German bombers stretched from the Thames PARIS, May 25 (Reuter).—It was announced to-day Norfolk.

In addition to these two counties, German planes visited Suffolk and that 15 French generals have been relieved of their These are the first civilian commands, including Army and Army Corps commanders casualties in England from de- A.R.P. Refuge For Legations In Vatican

and several divisional commanders following the ap was killed in Scotland in March liberato bombings. One man pointment of General Weygand as Commander-in-Chief. during a raid on Scapa Flow and ...The •announcement,

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” of operations, Important changes have

WASHINGTON, May 25 (UP),—{ been made in the Ligh Command.

"From to-day, 15 generals have,

Lord Lothlon, the British Ambassa been relieved of their command, in-dor, conferred to-day with Mr. cluding Army and Army Corps com- Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, manders, several divisional com- It is understood that the Ambassa- manders and some officers in charge dor enquires about the possibility of transporting large numbers of Bel

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GERMAN REPORTS

FROM PAGE ONE

gian and Fresch · refugeea_to_the United States until such time as they could return to their homes. MORE QUAKES IN PERU

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

two civilians were killed and 150 wounded when a German plane

crashed and exploded its cargo

of bombs Inst month.

It is believed the German planes operated from new bases on the Dutch coast.

Further Alarms Further ale raid alarms early this morning along the cast coast drove the people to their shelters, while Spitfires took to the air.

to

In the raid on Yorkshire, the bombs were dropped before the ale rald

The people were still rushing sirens were sounded.

to engage and drive off the Invaders, their shelters as the Spitfires arrived but the rald Insied only a minutes,

lew

Windows Shattered Under the circumstances, the and British forces trapped in Belgium!

damage occasioned by the German is a virtual certainty.

bombs were remarkably light. There Reports from the front claim new LIMA, May 25 (UP),—A third was little or no damage to buildings advances in northern France and nu-earthquake shock occurred at 12.40 and no human lives were lost. Some thorised sources stale that an absolu-a.m., and people again rushed into poultry and animals at a farm were

killed and the chief tely secret weapon from which "very the streets from their semi-wrecked

property damage great surprises can be expected" will homes.

was to window panes, Although it is impossible to com be used against England in the very

Bombs were dropped on small near future.

pute the exact number of victims of Essex town but caused no casualties. yesterday's two big shocks, it is be- One fell in a garden and another lieved that about 300 are dead and shattered the windows of two 1,500 injured in Lima, Calao

and tages. ¡Sover.

In Yorkshire the only building on which a direct hit was scored was a disused mill.

Detalls of this secret weapon cau- not be revealed, they said, but added that "England will find out soon enough."

Military quarters claim that Gei- man dive bombers are carrying out devastating attacks on Channel har- Lours, reducing Ostend, Dunkirk and Zeebruge to smoking masses of rub- bish and thereby dooming all hope of retreat for the French 7th and th armies--the remainder of the Belgian army and the main body of the Brl- tish Expeditionary Force, caltmated to total half a million men.

The rear communications of these armies are in a hopeless chaos, mili- tary sources declare.

Claim Vimy Ridge

With the exception of one Chinese, all the casualties are Peruvians.

cot-

A resident told the "United Press":

Americas Protest "The Arst we knew of the raid was

To Belligerents

when we were awakened by the crashing of bombs,

"Immediately afterwards the

sirens began to sound and we rushed to our sheltern.

"Scores of windows were

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH- WASHINGTON, May 24 (UP).- Twenty-one American republies have||tered." protested to Britain and Germany concerning the violation of the Pan- American safely zone by the scut-

SIGNIFICANT ITALIAN MOVES

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ROME, May 25, (UP).-Italy seethed to-day with rumours of her impending entry into the war with four significant events:

1-Cardinal Luigi Maglione, the Papal Secretary of State, sent letters to all Embassies and Legations accredited to the Holy See asking them to state whether they wanted refuge in Vatican City in case their countries become Involved in war against Italy.

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2. The suspension of all trans-Atlantic shipping from

Italian ports until June 10." 3-The issuance of a decree providing for civilian mobilisa-

'tion.

4-Signor Ubando Soddu, the Under Secretary of War, sent a message to all Infantry units expressing his faith in the soldiers in "this present moment of the country's destiny when you are ready to march towards new goals and glory."

No Designs In Balkans

Civil Mobilisation .

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, May 26 (UP).-The Official Gazette to-day publishes a long decree, in which King Victor Emanuel, Mussolini "and the Council of Ministers officially approve the measures for Civil announced this morning.

Italian Assurance Mobilisation,

Said Given

The measure provides that all pro- BELGRADE, May 25 (Reu-perty and all persons of either sex ter)-Fresh assuranceg that over 14 years of age can be mobilised shat-Italy does not contemplate action of war in the event of partial or and become subject to the discipline in the Balkans is understood to general mobilisation, have been handed to the govern It is officially confirmed that

all

They assert that Calais is complete-iling of the German freighter Han- Road has reported to the police the

Mrs. Scarpa of 10 Homuntin Huments of the Balkan countries, trans-Atlantic shipping from Italy ly surrounded and that its fall is over in

The newspaper, "Vreme" under a has been suspended until June 10, the presence of a British theft of jewellery and clothing worth

Rome date-line, publishes a state-on which date the liners Rex aud expected soon.

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ment that it has learned from a very Augustus are now scheduled to "sall," reliable source that the Italian

No sailings to Far Eastern ports Government has Instructed its dip- are now scheduled, Jomatic

in the representatives Balkans to inform the governments to what they are accredited tiät all news circulated abroad regarding alleged Italian military designs In the Balkans is unfounded.

A German High Command com- munique slates that Boulogne Bas fallen and Calais is surrounded. It claims that the Germans "have" cap- tured Ghent and Courtrai, and have crossed the Lys River,

and

"Between Roubaix

Valen- sult in turning the encirclement into three separate battles, firstly, around) the Maginot Line from Valendentes to Lille, secondly, around the Allies on the French coast, and thirdly, around the Alles on the Belgian coast."

a Nazi spokesman said. Famous Tunnol Dynamited According to German officers, the retreating Belgian troops dynamited the famous traffic tunnel under the Schelde estuary at Antwerp in order to block the entry German troops.

of Belgians also shelled the outskirts of the city for the same purpose

A German supper unit erected a pontoon bridge across the estuary which is 30 miles. The landing field clennes the Germans are allacking the French frontier fortifications.

The Germun forces are also al- tacking Doual, between Valenciennes and Vimy.

"The Germans have cuptured Vimy Ridge and have occupied the heights between Lillers, St. Tomer and Gravelines,"

Gorman Strategy

in the

The Allied forces locked triangle along the French-Belgian epast face the danger of being divided into three groups, the Ger- mans claim.

Military observers express the opinion thot the German drive from Lardetto heights north- ward will meet the German forces which took Tornay in Belgiusa. The Germans who crossed the Lys will make an effort to pinch the upper corner of

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of the Antwerp airport was mined, but the Germans Alled and sedded the field within 24 hours,

There is not one ship in Antwerp harbour.

Ring Closed

LONDON, May 25 (Reuter)-A Berlin High Command communique asserts that the ring round the Bel- glan army, parts of the First, Ninth and Seventh French armies and the bulk of the B.E.F., ly closed. has now definite

It further asserts that the German have captured Ghent, Courtral and Vimy, hemming in Calais. ***

S. RHODESIA AND WAR SACRIFICES

SALISBURY, May 24 (Reuter). The Prime Minister of Southern Thodeala has told his people that the time has come when they must sielo definitely that they are prepired to mako sacrifices just as the people of Britain have, ;

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It is added that the representa-] Lives were also instructed to inform the governments concerned that Italy has_deelded...td_make__ali_efforts to prevent an extension of the war to the Balkans and to continue relations with those countries on the buals of the existing, treaties,

Soviet's Firm Attitude Well-formed Yugo-Slav quarters

Reports Donied

However, reports thai all Italian shipping has been halted are cate- gorically dented by oletai ters, who state that the postpone- ment of departures of trans- Atlantic shipping is due to technical reasons.

Meanwhile, reports from Bucharest indicate that additional precautions are being taken in Rumania against fifth column activities.

The Rumanian authorities

have commenced a general round-up of undesirable foreigners,

describe the statement as "accurate Police entered all

In a general sense and conforming in intention to the communication received by the Yugo-Slav Forel Ministry"

bars

coffee and restaurants in

Bucharest, demanding identity cards. drivers were held up in the streets, Simultaneously, pedestrians and ear

for a like purpose.

Allied observers here are compar- ing the

Hundreds of peo the latest Italian assurances with

people who

were

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