Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1940, Page 15

Fate of Allied Army In Belgium May Hang On Next 48 Hours Many Observers Believe French and British Blow . Has Been Held Too Long France and Belgium is to be saved or whether the great German ad- vance to the Channel, which began 10 days ago, will result in the ab- solute defeat of the force and the greatest German victory since Tan- nenberg. For six days now Allied forces in the north have been fighting a de- fensive action, gradually retiring north along the Channel coast, past Boulogne and back toward the coast in Belgium. Their desperate re- sistance here and there was not the Allied Army in Northwestern By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent. LONDON, May 27.—The next 48 hours probably will decide whemer' sufficient to stem the tide; the Ger- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, - D. €, MONDAY, MAY" 27, 1940, have crossed the Scheldt after & break through at Oudenarde. Now they are fighting for Calais, on the south of the Allied army, and are pounding at the Lys, the last river which lies between them and the sea coast of Belgium farther north. History has been repeating itself with strict punctuality so far. It was just 22 years.and 2 months ago today that Germany’s great offensive of March, 1918, inally reached its first big setback before Arras. The Germans, failed that time because they halted to storm the strong British positions at Arras 'in some ways; the German break- through has been mordé complete, it has moved' faster because of me- chanical equipment, and the Allied lines were more completely disor- ganized at the beginning by the dis- ruption of their communications. Then the end of their drive found the Germans still aiming at Amiens; now they are on the Channel. At the same time the German Army runs the same risk which it en- countered then or, because of the narrowness of their gap to the sea, an even greater risk. The question of the moment is whether the Allies, now as in 1918, have manpower and they can roll up the German rear | doing what they did not do in from the south. that is, to smash & May Have Waited Too Long. Some people think it is too late this time, that the Allies have waited too long for the strategic moment at which to strike back. Yet they can still remember that the German attack of 1918 gained full force on March 21, that it was on its last legs by the night of March 27 and that it was completely over by April ¢, The present German drive first reached the sea on the morning of May 21, and today is May 27. The general impression among ish official information in regard to the movement of armies today and there may not be until the great question has been decided. (Copyright, 1040, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) U. S. Aide fo Address Tuberculosis Association meeding - of 'thi Tuberculosis “Association. to be ?eld lux\ Cleveland Sundsy through une 6. 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