Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1940, Page 8

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Devonshire “Hef- $ 40 ties” look like $50, Southwind “Gabs” look like $40, now ) MONTHS TO PAY Sown pagment 0 intgrest 12 pay, THE - YOUNG MEN’S 1319 F STREET THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. o, |German Planes Raid Far Info France In New 'Blitzkrieg” French Army Ordered To Aid Belgians as All Signs Point to Total War B the Associated Press. PARIB, May 10—Germany today struck deep into France with her aft force as an saccompaniment to & typical *blitakrieg” invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Lux- embourg. The action against the three neu- trals on France’s northern flank brought the British-French allies immediately to their aid. The German air force, abruptly abandoning the practice of the war- ring powers to refrain from bombing each other’s interior zones, raided numerous Prench cities. Alrports were bombed. According to official French reports there were victims in the cities themselves. The PFrench Army received its marching orders to go to the aid of Belgium_ shortly after the Ger- man invasion and appeals went out to the allies from both The Hague and Brussels. Belgians Mop Up Parachutists. The Belgian Army was reported by Havas, French news agency, to be busy mopping up small detach- ments of German parachutists who landed on Belgian territory. Sev- eral German planes were shot down from the numterous squadrons which flew over Belgium. The War Department spokesman said there was as yet no precise in- formation in Paris of the exact line of march of the Germans. They are following the usual tactics of sending shock forces in advance, preceded by intense aerial bom- bardment of roads, bridges, rail- roads and air flelds. The bombardments, he states, are on a vast scale in “Holland, Bel- glum, Luxembourg and France, those in France being notably in the eastern and northern areas.” Notes of Appeal Revealed. Notes from Belgium and Luxem- bourg appealing for French and British aid were made public by the Foreign Ministry at noon. The Bel- glan note said: “The Belgian government is de- termined to resist the aggression with all its force. The government of the King is firmly confident that, as in the past, the joint efforts of France, England and Belgium will| assured triumph of the right.” The Luxembourg note, delivered to the Foreign Ministry by the Duchy’s Charge d’Affaires, pointed out the country was without arms and asked French aid “for the re- establishment of the independen and integrity of Luxembourg.” The Dutch Minister also called on Premier Paul Reynaud and appealed for aid. Total War Indicated. All indications were that Europe’s war at last had broken out in its expected major proportions. On every hand were signs that a life ‘and death struggle. between Germany and the allied powers is at hand, While the western front remained comparatively calm, raiding German airplanes were declared to have bombed numerous cities back of the line. The French officially listed Lyon, Nangy, Colmar, Prontoise and Luxeuil. There were killed and wounded in == HAHN *3212 14th 14th & G 7th & K “Open [Espionage Activifies ENVOY'S SOLDIER SON— Charles Albert van der Strat- en Ponthoz, 22, son of the Belgian Ambassador to the United States, is at ‘the Bel- gian front in a motorized cavalry regiment. He was a popular resident of Washing- ton until he was called to the colors a year ago. the bombings, but the figures were not released to the press. After an early morning raid in which German planes were driven off by anti-aircraft fire, Parisians took news of the war developments calmly. There was no report of bombings in the Paris zone. The French radio renewed warn- ing that the people carry their gas masks at all times and seek refuge in air raid shelters immediately alarms are sounded. A French spokesman called “pure inventions,” the charges of German | Foreign ' Minister von Ribbentrop | that English troops had landed in the Dutch ports and that the allies were preparing military occupation of Holland and Belgium. Minister of Information Louis Frossard, personally reading news of war developments over the radio, declared, “No comment is necessary The hour has come for every French- man to do his duty silently and resolutely.” M. Frossard pledged that news of jall further developments would be |given out by the French “with| scrupulous exactitude.” Gamelin’s Order of the Day. Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, commander in chief of the British |and French Armies, proclaimed to his forces today that Germany has begun “a fight to the death against Tus” us. | In his order of the day to the | allied troops, he said: | “The attack which we have fore- en since last October was launched his morning. | v“Germany has begun a fight to death against us. “The orders are, for France and iher allies. Courage, energy, confi- dence.” [ Taft Entertains Backers Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio will entertain two high school students who nominated him for President. in a recent mock Repub- lican Convention under the auspices of - the National Forensic League Monday and Tuesday. They are William Reimer, 16, of Wadsworth, Ohio, and Arthur Ball of Bentley- ville Pa. They nominated and seconded the Senator respectively. *4483 Conn. Ave. Evenings 4RIWEAk 5 .95 Uncovered in Reich, Germans Declare § Charge Netherlands With British Tie-up Since 1914 By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 10—The Nazi high command and Interior Minister Wil- helm Frick today declared that star- tling espionage activities had been uncovered in the Reich. The an- nouncement coincided with Ger- many’s swoop into Belgium and the Netherlands. The government made public pur-~ ported documents which allegedly demonstrated that the low countries were already associates at arms and in spirit with the allies. Nazi officials argued that it was therefore necessary that Germany strike to-protect the vital south- western part of the Reich, where was concentrated the bulk of her steel and coal industries, Official quarters said these docu- SATURDAY! FRIDAY, MAY. 10, 1940. He asserted these facts and more would be brought out in the early trial of British Capts. Richard Henry Stevens and Sigismund Payne Best, who were seized by Gestapo agents on the Dutch side of the Nether- lands-German border last November beer cellar explosion. % Gen. Henrich Wilhelm Keitel, vasion of the Low Countries by writ- ten charges that ever since the World War Belgium and the Nether- lands had planned to join with Britain and Prance against the Reich. One of Gen. Keitel's reports said To Convention Named President Wayne Stone and W. Carl Goodman have been named delegates of the North Wi Lions Club to the internationsl con- vention of Lions clubs to be held at Havana, Cuba, in July. Capt. Floyd Truseott and George Sutherland will serve as alternates while Dr. Dudiey King and Theo- dore McGann are planning to fly to Havans to give the North Washing- .| ton Club & representation of six. Ferryboats Popular Auto ferry boats from the United States recently put into commission between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Colonia, Uruguay, were received enthusiastically because they are of the “drive-on-drive-off” type where- as derricks had to be used in han- dling cars on the old boats. 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