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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940.

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GERMANS ENTER PARIS

FRENCH CAPITAL IN HANDS OF INVADERS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1871: GALLANT DEFENCE COMES TO END

IMMEDIATE SURRENDER ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO DESTRUCTION, SAY NAZIS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Despite the declaration by France that Paris has been proclaimed an Open City and that all troops have been with- drawn and defences abandoned, the German High Command has decided to send a radio ultimatum, demanding the im- mediate surrender of the city.

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The city, says a "Domei" message from Berlin, will be reduced to ashes unless the French immediately comply with the German demand, NAZI WARNING O

OF FATE..

The High Command quotes the fate that overcame Warsaw and Rotterdam when they refused to surrender..........

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The German Government admits the receipt of the report through the US. Ambassador that Paris is now an open and undefended city, but refuses to state "whether the German High Command will accept this French notification.

Defence Of Paris Reaches Crisis Stage

250,000 battle

on 20-mile front,

give no quarter

BY MILES HANDLER

United Press War Correspondent

WITH THE PARIS DEFENDERS, June 14 (UP). ---The Defence of Paris has reached the crisis stage.

Entrenched in the last remaining line between the capital and the invaders, the defenders

are to-day meeting an attack that has had no parallel even in the carly days of the German offensive.

Last night's late communique clearly indicated that even stronger enemy mechanised units have crossed both the Seine and Marne, and they are now converging on Paris from four directions.

A quarter of a million men—180,000 Germans and 70,000 Frenchmen-are now jammed in a narrow 20-mile front between Senlis and Betz, where neither sido is giv- ing or asking quarter.

The casualties are colossal..

Earlier, it was reported. by both "Domei"

and "United Press" that the Germans would ignore the French claim that Paris had been rendered an open city, and would demand the im- mediate capitulation of the capital on pain of destruc- tion.

This procsture was adopted Haile

by the Germans in Poland when Warsaw was surrounded.

Refusal of the Warsaw garrison

lo surrender led to the destruction

of the Polish capital.

"The fate of Parls depends en- tirely upon developments," a Nazi spokesman said in Berlin this morning.

No Troops Left in City

officially

It

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announced in

Washington the U.S. diplomailc Inter-

Government that all French troops

Selassie's

raised

Standard

near

Ethiopia

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

CAIRO, June 14 (UP).-International circles- Governmente informed the Reich presumably the League of Nations-are about to Abyssinian Government headed by Emperor Haile Selassic.

have been withdrawn from Parls and constitute a new that the city is now completely un- defended,

The Paris garrison and its Com- mander are understood to have left the city for an unspecifled front. Capture Imminent, Claim

GREAT BATTLE THAT ENDED ON NINTH DAY

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

FÖR THE FIRST TIME SINCE MARCH, 1871, GERMAN TROOPS TO-DAY ENTERED THE GATES OF PARIS.

The great capital of the French Republic fell to the enemy at 7 a.m. (3 p.m. to-day Hongkong Time).

First news of the greatest tragedy of the war camo from the American Ambassador, Mr. William Bullitt, who cabled the State Department in Washington, stating that the "German Army was inside the gates of Paris." CITY QUIET

Mr. Bullitt added that the city was quiet.

First news of the fall of Paris was received in Hong- Kong from "Domei's" Washington Bureau, which flashed an urgent message (published in our Final Edition) at 4.15 p.m., stating that the German vanguard had com- menced the entry into the city...

p.m.

This news was confirmed by "United Press" at 5.45

UNDEFENDED CITY

Since yesterday morning Paris has been an open and undefended city, the entire garrison being withdrawn in order to save the capital from destruction.

By last night the only forces remaining in the city under the command of the Garrison Commander were a Few gendarmerie and auxiliary fire fighters,

The German attack on Peris was launched from four directions, the enemy entering the city from the south-west along the southern bank of the Seine.

Practically the entire populace had deserted the city before the Germans entered.

As the Germans marched through the streets they entered a city of death.

There were no spectators to] witness their triumph, those of Paris's populace who remained behind staying bohind the shut-

homes,

It is believed that this Government will be proclaim-tered doors and windows of their |ed as the legal government of Ethiopia.

of WAR IN AFRICA

The German High Command claim- ed inst night that the capture Paris was imminent.

The opinion is expressed in Berlin) that General Weygand will not find Turn to Paga 2, Fourth Column

INITIATIVE

at

were

LATEST

BY ALLIES the former tribal chiefs who had dented the French lines at Mont- GUARD OF THE GERMAN ARMY

Story Of The Bottle Ethiopian tribesmen, who have on June 5-nine days ago-along the The great Battle for Parts opened been waiting three years for an entire front from the Channel opportunity to strike back at Abbeville to the Meuse near Mont- their aggressors, are rallying at medy The major attacks many points on the Kenya,

launched towards the Seine from BERLIN, JUNE 14. 10 A.NL (3 Abbeville and towards Soissons. Sudan and British Somaliland

PM H.KT.). IT IS OFFICIALLY frontiers, under the command of trated to the outskirts of Rouen, and HIGH COMMAND THAT THE VAN. By June 9 the Germans had pene-ANNOUNCED BY THE GERMAN COURT MARTIAL

served under the Negus..

didier and Salasons, forcing a general MARCHED INTO PARIS-SHORTLY With modern arms, these tribesmen withdrawal,

|AFTER DAWN THIS MORNING; AT BARRACKS

are now joining the Allled operations! The threat to Paris became critical THE CITY IS' QUIET AND NO Senlis, which is on the Parls-Soissons Railway, ls 22 miles

against the 250,000 Italian and on the following day, when Panzer OPPOSITION WAS ENCOUNTERED Eritrean troops in Ethiopia. -

units broke through between Rouen north of the capital. Betz is a small rallway town between the

(United Press massage). Royal Scots Bandsman.

Haile Selassie's Standard now flies and Beauvais and between Noyen and Oise and Oure Rivers.

CAIRO, June 14 (UP)-In Fituarari Birru, who has temporarily with all their force along the Disc ANNOUNCED THAT THE FRENCH

again over the native armies led by

Soissons.

TOURS, June 14, 10 am, §.' p.ni, Accused of Theft Along the twenty mile front Last night's French communique

Thereafter, the Germans struck 1.K.T. (UP)-IT IS OFFICIALLY daring raid carried out by assumed command. between these two towns is con- more than 2,000,000 men in action Royal Scots, appeared before a Court darkness, British patrols took Bdam, Emerson, of the 2nd Bn. The British troops under cover of centrated the flower of the along the entire front between Rosen Martial at the Murray Barracks this the initiative against the Italians INHERITANCE French Army and the Paris (on the Selne) and the River Meuse, morning charged with the theft of on the Libyan frontier last night. garrison.

The British ́patrol crawled

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COLOSSAL CASUALTIES

stated that the Germans now have

which enters France from Belgium at

Despite their numerical inferiority, states the communique, the French armies continue to fight magnificently. At 10 pan, the French High Com-

Outnumbered vn to two and Sedan, 'overwhelmed by the superiority of the German mechanisation and air force, the French line belag purged in a living hell of shell and Bicel.

'Panzers' Cross Marne An equally violent battle la roging cast of the capital, where the enomy's Panzer units have crossed the Marne between Chatonu Thierry and Dor- mana, and are now advancing south- wards in the direction of Montmirall, the railway junction city on the Petit Moru River:

a watch or alternatively with recely- Ing stolen property.

Evidence

at $50 on

Daring British Raid On Libyan Frontier

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"

TAX IMPOSED

SHANGHAI, June 14 (Reutor).

and Selne Rivers, culminating in the HIGH COMMAND HAS RENOUNC entry into the elly this morning. ED THE DEFENCE OF PARIS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE CITY FROM DESTRUCTION.

The French-forces are now retir ing on both sides of the city. They are Krupulously avoiding the elty It

German Operations Completed in Norway

The French are retiring from the

Marshall left his wrist watch valued the desert to the barbed-wire has been transferred from the Herior Hitler: announced to-day that the Open City status.

was given that Bdsm, across the night-cooled sands of All Chinese whose novable property BERLIN, Juna 13 (Domel). Herr zelf in order not to compromis lis

Imand issued an Order of the Day to barrack room near his bed at 7 pm. have constructed along the 2DV | Government from July 1, 1940, sinted surrender of the Norwegian army and boil de Marne and the Sclue, 1

the window sill of the barricades which the Italians to Shanghai are liable to a payment German military operations in Nor positions so gallantly defended along

the Chinese way have been completed with the

the troops, ordering them to continue their resistancd "at all costs."

Counter-Attack By Chinese

on June 4, and was listening to the mile frontier. wireless when he missed the watch

an hour later. Accused and two

the room at the time

of inheritance tax to

that

the "Sin Wan Pao."

the withdrawal of the Allied forces| The paper adde

the local from Norway. Chinese District Courts have been instructed by the Ministry of Justice

Chungking to this effeci.

In addition to cutting through the others were stated to have been in enemy's barrier, the Britons captured

soveral Italian and native prisoners, On June 6, after a report had been South Afclean air forces are con Simultaneously, the British and made at the Central Police Station; inuing their air raids on Italian EIRE WILL STAY CHUNGKING June 13 (Reuter). the watch at a pawnshop in Queen's it was alleged that accused tendered Other armoured division have A Chinese military apokesman Road East she was detained by the crossed the Marne near Epernay and states that the Chinese have launched Police. are advancing along the south bank a heavy counter-attack north-east of towards Chalons, capital and eno of Ichang and are attempting fo solze the principal railway centres of the a crossing on the Han River to cut afternoon ¿Maria Province,

{the Japanese retreat:

possessions.

Blenheim

NEUTRAL

DAY OF PRAYER FOR FRANCE

Dirodawa Bombed

bombers yesterday SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, June 13 (Router).The Hearing was adjourned until the attacked Direddwa aerodrome, scene

Archbishop of Canterbury asics that for the defence to call of one of the Bercest batlles in the notified Italy that the intends to churches in Britain as a day of ROME, June 19 (UP)-Elre has next Sunday be observed in all evidence.

Turn to Page 2, Fourth Column remain neutral.

prayer, for France,

The Art Germans to eilter. Faris came from the routh-west. Other are proccoding down the Oise.

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