Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 21

Nazi Infaniry Drive Near Luxemborg Is Repulsed, French Say German Attack Stopped At Barbed-Wire Barrier, High Command Asserts By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 13.—German infan- try stabbed savagely today at vital French positions near the Luxem- bourg frontier under a screen of ar- tillery fire, but the defenders beat them back and cut them down in the tangled barbed wire of no-man’s land, the French high command an- nounced tonight. The night French communique did not disclose the strength of the at- tacking force, but it, did say the thrust was preceded by a violent preparation of German artillery and that it went forward under a pro- tective barrage. v No Estimate of Casualties. It was at the barbed-wire barrier between the lines that the German attack was halted, the French re- ported. No estimate of casualties was made. Earlier in the day artillery and machine gun fire was reported heavy at various points along the Rhine and to the east, and the Prench said their troops successtully sttacked & German position between the Saar River and the Vosges Mountains. Pighting near the Luxem! frontier has flared intermittent between the Germaa village of Perl and the Prench frontier village of Apach. Uneasiness in Luxembourg has caused many nationals of that tiny country to apply for permis- sion to enter France. ¢ Committee Meets. French activity on the home front was marked by a meeting of the War Committee composed of Defense Minister Daladier and chief of the army, sea and air forces with Presi- dent Albert Lebrun. This is the body which makes all decisions of war strategy. Premier Paul Reynaud received the Swedish Minister, E. Hennings, and the Belgian Ambassador, Pol le | Telljer. Western front action yesterday in the Rhine River sector saw a bold German raid on a French-held island near the Swiss frontier beat- en off by French machine gun fire. Boats Repulsed from Isle. The German raiders approached the island in boats but were forced to withdraw in the face of heavy blasts from machine guns and rifies. Because of the darkness the French could not say whether any of the German boats had been sunk. The French said their artillery smashed German military construc- tions in the Saarland, which have “held the especial attention of the French command.” Position Now Is In Scandinavia, Sinking of Two B Impregnable Nazis Hold h Submarines Reported; Mine Fields Scorned By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 13.—Germany challenged the full power of her foes tonight to break her steadily-rein- forced hold on Norway and Denmark as she consolidated her gains amid furious British thrusts from the air and acclaimed the sinking of two British submarines by her own war birds. “The German position in Scandi- navia is impregnable against the mightiest blows the enemy possibly can deliver,” authorized commenta- tors proclaimed. Their cry of defiance came at the end of a day in which main de- velopments recorded by Germans included: 1. Warplanes cruising over the North Sea surprised two British submarines as they came to the surface and sank them at the same time, 2. D. N. B, official news agency, took cognizance of reports abroad that the 83250-ton British cruiser York had been sunk. It said it was assumed that the York was the vessel which the high command re- ported hit twice by air bombs and incapacitated two days ago. 3. German crews have taken over all Norwegian war vessels found in the Nazi occupation of the northern kingdom. 4. A steady stream of German soldiers continue to move across the Skagerrak, reaching Oslo “in large numbers,” while heavy artillery went to Tréondheim:-te strengthen the captured Norwegian coast defenses. 5. German penetration of the Nory wegian:. interior continued relenfs lessly and I the far north their troops took over theé Narvik railway. which brings Swedish ore to the Arctie. 6. British air attacks were in- effective, .ralders losing 12 planes yesterday while the Germans were losing five. Mined Claims Scorned. Germans were almost scornful of British reports that the Skagerrak, the Kattegat and the North Sea were being mined to bottle up Ger- man shipping and naval vessels. “The British Navy cannot lay mines in spots which its ships can- not reach,” they said. Yet, in the midst of all derogatory references in the German press to the British as a fighting nation, many Germans feel Britain is pre- paring something unusual. ‘These sources said that Britain’s {nitial naval sally into Narvik last ‘Wednesday and action generally in the North Sea has been “planless” and from this they deduced the present activity is desultory only be- cause something methodical is in the offing. Swedes Seen Veering. With Denmark under German eontrol and the campaign in Norway proceeding, Sweden was seen by Germans to be veering from what was interpreted here as hostile neu- trality toward Germany to benev- olent neutrality. The Swedish government, accord- ing to information received in the Wilhelmstrasse, appeared to have given assurances that the press and radio no longer would depend upon news alleged to be of British and French origin and hence hostile to Germany. Informed sources asserted there NOW IS THE TIME TO ORDER CUSTOM MADE SLIP was a practical economic side to the question of Sweden's neutrality. When the port of Lulea, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, te- comes ice-free next month, it was considered likely that Germany would try to have iron ore from Northern Sweden shipped from there rather than along the Nor- wegian coast regardless of how strongly German forces may have become entrenched along the latter. Beyond that, neutral military ex- perts in the German capital said they felt Sweden may yet by the force of circumstances be drawn into Germany's military orbit, de- spite the present German disavowal of any plans for “protecting” her. Such a contingency might arise, they said, if Britain should succeed so effectively in mining the Kat- tegat and the Skagerrak that con- tact between the German forces of occupation in Denmark and Nor- way would be cut off from each other. - In view of Germany's pledges not to draw Sweden into the affair, however, it was emphasized thst this line of reasoning lay in the field of speculation. It was not until late tonight that the high command revised to a total of five, from the earlier announced toll of two, the German airplane losses in an encounter yesterday over Bergen. British losses first were placed at 8 and then 10 warplane: EST, i879 PIANOS- for RENT We have a large selec- tion available. Rentals apply toword™ purchase price. Cohvenient terms may be arronged. © HUGO WORCH 1110 G St NW. NA. 4529 Specialists in STOKER and BLOWER" COAL For All Makes of Anthra- e ind Bituminous Stok- ers and Blowers. 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