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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940.. A8 ‘Conquering Legions Greet Hitler as PushToward Channel Continues B % - | - | | ) ; BOMB HITS GAS STATION—Scene in Namur, heavily HITLER ACCLAIMED—Chancellor Hitler, standing in the front of his car, receiving cheers of his soldiers as he IT SAVED HIS LIFE—A wounded Belgian Chasseur fortified city around which there was I!mwy fighting, rode through a town in conquered territory. Wide World Radiophoto. showing his nurse the dent in his helmet where a bullet after German bombs set fire to a gas station and nearby had struck as he fought at the front. buildings. A. P. Wirephoto. : Wide World Cablephoto. . — m— o — - N IN WAKE OF “BLITZ” BOMBERS—T his picture, according to a British caption, shows damage to buildings in a camp at Arnheim, Holland, according to a Belgian town after the German blitzkrieg bombers roared over in advance of lumbering tanks. A.P. Wirephoto. censor-approved caption. o A. P. Wirephoto. “BIG THREE” OF FRANCE—The “big three” of France photdgraphed last night as they went to confer with President Le Brun. Left to right: Allied Generalissimo Maxine Weygand, Pan! Baudoin, secretary general of France’s War Committee; Premier Paul Reynaud and Marshal Henri Petain, new vice premier. Photo radioed from Pa A. P. Wirephoto. o - FRENCH DEFENDERS AFTER BATTLE — These (SRR 5 w0 . ] R ] Y | ,. transmitt i i ow, accord- oo : . o » &",‘,’,’F,m,, Soiiroes, oht of the French Ciicont (@bowe) ¢ ; d DUTCH PRISONER GETS HANDOUT—This pictare, according to a and machine gunners (below) who held the Rethel . - - L . ’ : erman caption, shows a captured Dutch pill-box and a Dutch bridgehead, retarding the advance of German tanks. MARCHING THROUGH FLANDERS—A single file column of German soldiers stalking warily . prisoner (right) shafin' with a _Gmun guard. T'I’u caption called They are shown after five days of action. ) along a debris-strewn street in a Belgian village. The German caption said this W wes an - " attention to the “booty left behind by the Dutch,” shown in fore- A. P. Wirephoto. advance unit to “prepare the mmfl for following troope.” A. P, Wirephoto. groand. H A. P.-Wirephoto. A A ; a ISy g