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German Losses of Past 48 Hours Described As Staggering

ALLIES HOLD INVADERS

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LATEST

BOULOGNE CITADEL

AS 'MOPPING-UP' BEGINS FALLS

Channel Fighting

By RALPH HEINZEN

UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, MAY 26 (UP),—THE CAP IN THE ALLIED LINES BETWEEN BAPAUME AND PERONNE WAS STILL OPEN TO-NIGHT.

CALAIS The battle for the Channel ports, however, has turned in the Allies

favour with General Von Reichenau's main motorised army held at St.

HELD BY Omer and Arras.

ALLIED

FORCES LONDON, May 26 (Reuter)-It was confirmed in London to-night that Allied troops are still hold-

NEW POST FOR GEN. IRONSIDE ing Calais.

Fighting side by side with Appointed C-in-C, Allied troops, the B.E.F. have repulsed all enemy attacks and Of Home Forces are fighting magnificently.

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Nazi Claim Denied LONDON, May 20 (Reuter).

LONDON, May (Reuter)-General Sir Ed-German claims that Calats is in Ger- mund Ironside has been man hands are declared in authorita- appointed to be Commander-tive circles in London to be without

foundation.

-in-Chief of the Home

-It is added that, as has been .Forces. He was formerly emphasised from both British and Chief of the Imperial French sources, Calais remains in the General Staff,

He has been appointed to this new. position in place of General Sir Walter Kirke, who will retire from the service.

General Sir John Dill will re- place General Sir Edmund Iron- side as Chief of the Imperial General Stair.

Gengral Sir John Dill was formerly Commander of the First Corps of the British Expeditionary Force. Re- cently he was appointed to be Deputy Chief of the Imperiat General Stoff.

Important Changes LONDON, May 20 (leuter) is well-formed circles explained in here that the changes in the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Home Forces have been brought about by the development of the situation and the necessity of placing the defence of Britain against possible invasion in the strongest possible hands.

It is learned that the appointments of General Sir Edmund Ironside and General Sir John Dill are proof of the great importance which the Govern- ment attach to perfecting, by any menna in their power, the strength of the British home defences.

The question of home defence is now one of paramount importance, "Reuter" was told by well-informed

circles in London.

General Sir Edmund Ironside's new

possession of the Allics.

Coast Ports—Firmly-Hold.

20 (Reuler)-A- PARIS, May cording to military circles here, Calais, Dunkirk and

French troops are firmly holding the ports Zeebrugge,

of

A flerce battle has been raging all day on either side of Valenciennes. where the Germans launched two

FIVE MAJOR ATTACKS

General Weygand, who returned from an aerial inspection of the northern Allied armies, was quoted to-night as being particularly satisfied

with the morale and combative qualities of those troops after they had fought off three major Gorman attacks yesterday and two more to-day without ceding any terrain or allowing a German break through on the Lys front.

TERRIFIC TOLL IN POCKET

Allied artillery and aviation took terrific toll of German dead inside the pocket and among the Reichenau divisions beyond Artois.

The German casualties have been greater during the past 48 hours than at any time in the 17 days of the German drive so far.

This seems to support the contention that Hitler's orders to the Reich's General Staff were to "attack without counting losses.”" BLINDED DIVISIONS

NAZI BLITZKRIEG

COMPLETELY HELD

beyond

Wounded Ruthlessly Bombed

LONDON, May 26 (Reuter). -Three hospital ships arrived at a south count port to-day with several hundred wounded from France,

Fourteen died on the туду

across.

A seaman on one of the ships said the Germans · severely bombed the harbour from which they salled on Saturday, and bombs dropped Icas than 300 feet away as the wounded were being taken aboard.

Firca were raging in the town and they could see flames and smoke when many miles out at

SCO,

Evacuation

PARIS, May 20, (UP), --- The French High Command has admitted that the Germans have captured Boulogne.

after-des-

The citadel was taken s

berate street fighting.

However, they claim that the Ger man drive to the sea through' Flan- ders has been stalled by farions Allied resistance.

Amilitary spurce sald-the-Nati losses have been tremendous as the invaders unleashed: major attacks, li five sectors, all of which were re- pulsed.

So deadly has the French arilllery' fire between the Aline and Measo been that "whole sections of Germant Infantry have been mowed down,” ho Bald

To-night's official communique said: "Violent

fighting continues on the Somme where we have accentuated our advance."!·

The French Premier proceeded to London this morning to confer with the British War Cabinet.

Ile returned to Paris this evening.

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from towns Red-Crosses

on coast

Latest Precautions By British Authorities

as

Removed

General Von Reichenau's blinded divisions turned northward to-day

Americans Forced To Arras

It was a manoeuvre clearly

Take Unusual Step designed to turn the right flank of the Allied army north again,

PARIS, May 26 (Reuter).——— and to try and encircle": "the

LONDON, May 26 (Reuter). The red-crossed painted roofs Dutch, Belgian, French and--The Government has decided of American ambulances operat British Forces before they can that Holland, parts ofing in the war zone have been effect their junction with the Belgium and northern France removed. Allied armies of the centre, now are in enemy hands, the follow-

The American Ambulance Com- very solidly planted on the ing towns on

the south-east mitter stated: "All our drivers agree Somme and the Aisne

coast will become evacuation that these Red Crosses only excite the malevolent attention of ̈ ̈ the But the Allied armies of the north,

German flyers... with their backs to the sen, fought Areas:

Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felix- off five violent attacks in two days and, even though the Germans might atowe, Harwich. Clacton. Frinton,

"In the last ten days, German local successes at Walton Southend. Margate, Rams-planes have

and been bombing claim certain Courtrai, Valenciennes and Arras and gate, Broadstairs, Sandwich, Dover, machine-gunning, opr., sobulances despite the Germans having planted Deal and Folkestone

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH!"

PARIS, May 26 (UP),.-For three days Hitler's great strong attacks this morning (Sun-blitzkrieg machine has hurled itself against the greatest day),

defensive wall of man-power. and steel the world has of these battles can yet be given, but known in a fruitless effort to break through the cordon it was reported late this afternoon

No indication of the final outcome

11 we troops had repulsed all General Weygand is slowly but surely drawing around Gerinan attacks and that they had inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. the “bulge."

At other points on the front, the

falled have

10 break Germans through the positions of armies in the north, either on

The Allies lines last night, after further counter-attacks

the Ailled had succeeded in taking back all the terrain lost during the past

the 72 hours, were almost identical with the positions held last Thurs--

River Lys in the region of Courtrai |day.

or in the west.

Above all, the day was one of aerial} 21:c activly, Both

The Blitzkrieg, which started entire armies of the north in a smell British and on May 11 with the invasion of pocket between Calels and Ghent.

So far, it should be emphasised, she French air forces were extremely the Lowlands and Luxembourg. active, carrying out intense bombing

Is not continuous. operations over the whole region of has been completely stalled after feline from Arras to the sea

Powerful Resistance the north, as well as the German 14 days of fighting. rear and on Nazi columns on the

The Allies have organired a very march,

Warships Aid Defence the part of the Allies with the powerful centre of resistance at St. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" last war, when the Kalser's war Omer, where General Reichenau's

Compare this achievement on

LONDON, May 26 (UP) The machine was not halted until 28 main mechanised column has been

jhalted. ed in the defence of the Channel days had elapsed and the enemy

British Navy again successfully join-

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Hiller's commanders are making desperate and suicidal efforts to con-

post is one to which only a soldier I ports to-day, when big warships lined, had reached the very gates of by the French and 'British and, withi

up off Boulogne and Bred over the Paris and the Channel, of his strategy and experience would city on a German column moving be appointed.

towards the coast. The Idea of an enemy Invasion of Britain has been so far from reality for the past hundred years that it is necessary to place those defences on an entirely new footing.

Reasons For Appointment

It is emphasised that General Sir Edmund Ironside's appointment is in no way a criticism of the, manner In which General Sir Walter Kirke has carried out his task.

The change in the High Command, "Router" has been informed, is in no way analogous to the French Army changes.

No one has been relleved of their -command" but the extreme serious- ness of the situation as a whole and

their forces on the historic bottle- ground at Vimy Ridge to dominate the Flanders countryside, the Allied jarmy of the north continued to-day to receive ample food and munitions supplies by sea and was in excellent condition to continue the battle.

Woygand Heartonod. General Weygand is said to be particularly heartened by fact that the Germans have made vir

{tually no gains and that the situation in and out of the pocket has been Istable for 48 hours,

Secondly, the Allied reports tend to prove the enormity of the German losses.

Ono report reached Paris from a Balkan source saying that 70.000) German wounded have arrived in

Austria from the northern front

and that schools in Austria have

hastily been converted into hospi-

fals

German material · losses have also

Calais and Dunkirk are solidly held

St. Omer holding out, there is no direct menace to these porta.

The official French analyst-to- The fire of the naval guna was tinue the advance and avoid the sins the Germans had fought their been enormous and in each of the

night confirmed the London reports! directed by units of the Fleet Altrition of trench warfare. Arm, which subsequently reported! In 48 hours, the German losses, as way into part of Boulogne, the main past four days, Germany has lost that the column had been wiped out. more and more men have been thrown port for Anglo-French communica- between 70 and 80 first line planes

into the, battle with a reckless disre-tions and the port of call in peace-daily.

ard for life, are compulled to have time for many ships on the south exceeded the total for the entire 12 Gays Dreviously.

Successful

French troops have been thrown in-

Rome Visit to battle in mass formation in the

Sir Wilfred Graóné Due To Return

effort to break the stalemate' and continue the blitzkrieg.

But Allied artillery and warplanes have raked these German reinforce ments with shell and bomb on a scale never before witnessed' In battle. Yesterday's unofficial reports that

·LONDON, May 20 (Heuter)—The the Allied forces operating In-the contact' with the the rapid growth of the German Ministry of Economie Warfare an-north had made

the south and so threat to the Channel porta has made nounces that the Master of Roils, Sir French forces Ins it necessary for an immediate intensi-Wilfred Greene, is due to return from closed the gup were premature, and fication of action on the home front. Rome this morning.

there was no progress in shutting the Greenie has been gap yesterday. attending a meeting in Rome of the Anglo-Italian Joint Standing Com- mittee on matters relating to contra- band control.

Trapeze Artiste Injured

Serge Popoff, 38-year-old trapeze artiste was admitted to Kowloon Hospital last night suffering from abrasions to the body received whilst performing at the circus in Mongkok. His condition is described as fair,

Wilfred

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Deliberate Attacks

even when flying, as low as 60 feet when Arrangements are being made for

a mistake is out of the children, whose parents wish them to question."

There is still no news of two go, to be sent to safer districts in the

American ambulances which entered Midlands and in Wales.

The movement will sturt next Amiens on May 10 when the town Sunday.

I was violently bombed,

OUTSPOKEN SPEECH

BY ROOSEVELT

SPECIAL TO THE

"TELEGRAPH””.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UP)-President Roosevelt delivered one of his most outspoken speeches in a radio broadcast to the nation to-night.

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The United States, he declared, does not have to abandon democracy to match its strength against ag- gressor nations.

""The idea that we can 'mni ntain our physical safety by re- tiring within our continental borders is futile,

"Obviously, such a policy of defence would merely invite

attack in the future.

Planes Might French Pilots Fighting

Win The War

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" PARIS, May -20-(UP), "One thousand additional plants now would probably be the turning point in the war

This declaration was made to-day But the French army in the south by General de Chamrun In

Franch Army -Digs in

Fantastic

Odds

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH!!

PARIS, May 26 (UP)—“Our sky must remain French." This is the substance of an Order of the Day issued Inst trans- | night by General Vuillemine, Chief of the French Aviation ser«

illusion Shattered

"Events in Europe during the past. fortnight have, shattered the Musion that we are a remote island and there- fore secure against the dangers from which no other land is free.

**""In Bome quarters there tame, "Withi this rude awakening, fear bordering on 'panic.

"It has been said that we are defen- celess, and it has been whispered that only by abandoning our freedom' of do- democratic idents can wo build fences adequate to match the strength of:aggressors. A

Ken Learn Lotte nai-be calamity how-

The proposals made by the Italian has dug in along the Somme and has Atlantic broadcast to the American vice to the French pilots who have been struggling against over-

General de Chamrun expressed the whelming odds since the German blitzkrieg began. authorities in this connection are redeveloped its bridgeheads at Amtens, Legion,

cal strength garded by him as affording a very Ham and Peronne, permitting adil sailsfactory basis for agreement. tional pressure against the thin Ger- hope that the Americans who had What these odds are may be in the tremendous disparity in numeri- "I do not share these illusions or

hes to the coast, fought side by side with the French dieated by the following reports:

In one encounter three FrenchimenNevertheless, the French fliers, by Jers. Let noi, discount aar pritish and Italian representatives man

were pitted against 27-Germans. In superior: combat ability and sheer strength, Let us have done with volenti Thele are engaged in working out the In an attempt to widen the danger-23 years ago would recognise. His

ously narrow gap, through which

Allies lines are holding, he another baitie 13 French pursuit nerves, are creating havoc with the fears and Blusions, let us detalls in: ftome.

mechanised unlis, are pouring to the

plants fought 80 German machines. gigante enemy air force,

consider what we have done and what Ond: French flying group alone has we must do coast, the Germans. have launched unid.

· continuous supply of in yet another fight, four French

brought down over 100 enemy, platies BERKMENISM

2 Army and Navy to-day am - authorities have My hope)Therocious allerka on lis no gorevictory in machine.me.sixty: German

1. "I we had the hecessary planes we

Tremendous Disparity. the total strength of the French group blackout throughout the country be American Consul to-day strongly sectors,

PLEASE Turn To Para 10) tweedid:Dine and 5 sun. Up to now advleed Amber Tennis tö lave Malta for The Nazis Are attempting 16

All accounts of air battles reveal itself. the black-out has only been imposed the United States at the earliest tabllati a continuous line from Arras could already say that the enemy at-

to the Channel in order to pen the tack had failed." possible moment. along the w-front

"But

calmly