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Keep Your Eyes On

Lille Operations

At this time of day it is hardly necessary to warn people against overrating the possible results of

battle successes.

Especially since the invasion of Norway and the early operations in Holland and Belgium we have had and object-lessons of this folly presumably have learnt by now that both aver-optimier and pessimism are ridiculous.

over-

I begin with this reminder because the news from France yesterday was extremely good, did hold out in- calculable possibilities and might almost seem to justify exaggerated порея. Let us make every possible allowance for

adverse developments.

600 Hens Let Loose On Fifth-avenue

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SIX HUNDRED chickens Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Buffs and Bantams-ran wild in New York's Rockefeller Centre one afternoon recently.

They had been released among the throng of Fifth-avenue promenader by "Woody" Hockaday, an eccentric New Mexican.

May 28, 1940.

EGYPT IS

PREPARED QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

Armies Take Up Their

Action Stations

CAIRO, May 27 (Reuter).— The extent of Egypt's prepared ness is shown in a despatch sent to the B.B.C. by its Middle East correspondent, Mr. Richard Dimbleboy from Cairo, left that city, he says, and have taken "p action stations.

The British Egyptian armles have

The mutorised units of the infantry and aircraft are all ready. They are being added to all the time in man- power and equipment,

Ready To Last Man

He came rattling up in a horse- Ho

The Minister of National Defence drawn buggy filled with crates. wore "Father Christmas" costume and shouted, "I am Santa Claus says that, unlike their officers, the private soldiers are not much in- on the Western from Santa Fe, New Mexico. T

Front. diving whole way chickens. Peace, Thefterested in eventa

is going to have peace," He held up a Leghorn in either hand shouting "Come and get them

When he opened the crates

the squawking hens scrambled in every direction, com pletely halting the traffe.

loose possible

The position yesterday was briefly us follows (and bere I suggest that those readers who have kept the war map published in the "Telegraph" on

conveniently Saturday place it front of them):

In

In France self, the main German biltzkrieg has been brought to a com- plete halt.

Lino Firmly Hold

The French pre frinly holding a line that stretches from Sedan, just north of the Luxembourg frontier, to Rethel (on the northern bank of the River Aisne), hence to Laon, across the Serre Valey to La Fere, to St. Quenthi and Cambrai.

Between Cambrai and Arras there break in the French lines, though which the German Panzar (mechanised}

divisions are pouring to the coast and at the same time isolating the Allled forces in the ex- treine north of France and Belgium from those in the south.

Position In North

North of this German bottle-neck, the lines of the Allies northern artics runs like a crude letter W from Dunkirk, to St. Omer, to Bethune, to La Bassee, to Valenciennes, then back to Courtra, thence to Ghent and up to the North Sea coast somewhere near the Belgian-Dutch frontier.

For the present we can ignore the Panzar divisions which are pouring through the breach in our lines be- tween Arras and Cambral and are the coast. Once striking towards this breach is closed they are .com-

However, they are very much con- cerned with the defence of their co- country, letting

They have been told that they must to the last man and they are fight willing to do so.

they

There was general sensation. In the midst of it lockaday whipped UP his horse and galloped away leaving six hundred Easter chicken dinners behind him

Champagne,

Then Death

WHEN police examined a car at Kilkhampton,' near Bude, in which a man and a woman were found dead, they discovered an empty champagne bottle near the driver's seat.

The couple were kentifled at the inquest as Leonard William Green (30), married, of Glebe Road, Hayes, Middlesex, and Miss Dorothy May Elliott (20), of Woodford, Berkeley, Glos. Miss Ellivit had lodged at the Greens' house for 12 months.

A brother-in-law sald Green left home on March 13, leaving a note for his wife stating that he was going away with Miss Elliott.

Money for Wife

Sergeant Avent said that in the man's pocket he found a sealed envelope containing LB 10s, address- ed to Mrs. Green. A length of hose-

pipe was connected to the car's ex- haust pipe.

The jury's verd! was that Green and Miss Elliott look their life, such action being premeditated.

pletely isolated and can be mopped Lived in

up at leisure,

The Germans are trying Bercely to widen this breach: the French are slowly but surely closing it. Simul- taneously our artillery and bombera are massacring the German infantry units in the narrow pocket in the Arras-Combrai-Valenciennes triangle, If the situation remained stalle

Council Flat:

Left £12,565

They are now out in the Western Desert living in huts and tents and even in the open.

On Door-Stop Of Trouble They are On the door-step of trouble. They are ready to deal with any Invasion from land or from the air.

Internal precautions are the sole Concern of the Egyption-Government which has taken full steps to deal with

fifth any "Quislings" or columnists

The population is easily depressed or cheered by the news. Therefore there is a benevolent censorship over both the incoming and outgoing news,

The people have, however, been Allied situation on the Western Front and the fact that the struggle is a stern one has done much to tone-up the public opinion and morale which is certainly high.

receiving full information about the

Further High Command Appointments

Vice-Chief Of 1.G.S. Nominated

LONDON, May 27 (Router). The War Office announces that Lieut. General Robert Hadden Haining, G.O.C., Western Com- mand, since 1939, is appointed Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff.

General Sir Henry Jackson "ts" appolnied G.O.C., Westem Com- mand, MISS LUCY CADE (87), # Major-General B.K.T. Page, Com- In the areas outlined above, the German offensivo would develop cousin of Charles Darwin, livedmander of the 10th Division, is into a war of attrition in trenches, in a flat at Holyoake House, appointed Chief of General Staff, something the Invaders must avold Rotherhithe, SE.. council

A at all cost, aluse it was this type of warfare that lost them the World War of 1914-18. The blitzkrieg must go on or fall.

Now Panzar Offensive So, in order to develop the bottle- neck between Cambrai and Arras the Germans have suddenly launched a new Panzar offensive in the south and have simultaneously launched a great infantry drive from the north. In the south their Panzar units, operating from the vicinity of Arras, are pushing northwards towards Lille. They claim to have passed through Lens and to have reached La Bassee.

A sold phlanax of German in- fantry Is also pushing on Lille from the opposite direction, that is, up the River Lys and River Scheldt in Bel- gium, and claims to have reached Courtral and Menin

The situation if these two armies meet in or near Lille may be serious for the Allied forces, chiefly Belgian and British, which are in the sector between Valenciennes, Courtral, Lille and Cambral, for they would then bo entirely surrounded.

Would Widon Breach

At the same time the Germans would widen the breach between the Allied northern armies and the French farmies in the south,

The main northern army would be sides, facing the Germans on three with its back to the North Sea, along a line from the French const south of Dunkirk to Lille, thence back to Ghent along the north bank of the River Lys and thence to the count at the Belgo-Dutch frontler.

would

In effect, thn. Germans pinch off the entire aren between Lille and Valenciennes, and would widen the breach along the French frontier (a breach

present extending from Sedan to Valen- olennes) by this distance. South of Sedan, of course, the French hold the entire frontier,

Summarising, the situation on the whole in better at the time of writing than at any time since the blitzkrieg started.

We have the Germans held Ughtly on the main fronts, and the break in our lines between Cambrai and Arres has decreased from a depth of

25 miles to 10 miles.

Bo long as this line holds and the breach is not permitted to ex- kend we can forget about the Ger- man mechanised untia who have penetrated to the cozst because, unless they are rapidly reinforced, they will soon be mopped up. But the situation north and south of Lille beard watching.

PARIS, May 217 (UP)—The Foreign Office anabunces a series of | appointments and ́a, minor reshuffling | of French diplomats in Europe and

Bouth America.

house.

Recently she died, and now it his been found that she left £12,505.

Among her bequests was £600 to Holy Trinity Church, where she had been a worshipper for 19 years.

She also left £60 to. Dr. J. A. Gillison, £100 to Miss Freida Went, and £150 to her servant, Ellen Fre derick.

Holyoake house is built on the site for

Home Forces, with the acting rank of Lieutenant-General.

Yesterday the War Office announc ed the appointment of General Sir Edmund Ironside, former Chief of Imperial General Staff, as Comman- der-in-Chief of Home Forces, and that of General Sir John Dill as Chlet of Imperial General Staff.

Press Enthusiastic LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).-In connection with the appointments of General Sir Edmund Ironside as of a house Mins Cade occupied

Commander-in-Chief of the Home many years. When the Council de-Force, and General Sir John Dill as molished her home Mise Cade was Chief of the Imperial General Staff, offered a flat in the new buliding.

LATE NEWS

the British press welcomes tils as evidence that the right men have have been chosen to fill these pasi- tions.

The possibility of a German Inva- sion is faced by the British press.

However, the "Yorkshire Post" says that if Hitler invades Britain he will be taking one of the greatest gambling risks of his career.

General Sir Edmund Ironside's task will be one of extreme difficulty and responsibility, says "The Times"

General Sir John Dill, with hia habitual coolness, was the inevitable choice for the position of Chief of the Imperial General Staff,

The Daily Mail" says that we realise to the full extent the peril and we are facing it.

Victory lles that way. We have also had all the warning we need about alth columns and have taken the necessary measures to destroy them.

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