Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1940, Page 3

Britain Interns Hundreds of Enemy Alien W Wholesale Raids Follow Official’s Sudden Decision Germans and Austrians Rounded Up, Will Be Sent to Isle of Man By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 27.—The Home Secretary today ordered interment on the Isle of Man of all German ~and Austrian women who previously had been under police restrictions. Under the decree, all enemy alien women between 16 and 60, who have previously been in “B” category, will be interned as well as men. It was explained that the women can, if they wish, take children under 16| with them. . Approximately 3,000 German and Austrian men and women now in- terned sought immigration permits to go to the United States. A gigantic police dragnet swept hundred of women into custody in in the early morning while censor- ship veiled the raids. The great roundup started at 7:30 am. Police cars, manned by more than 1,000 detectives, sped to the | women’s homes, waited while they hurriedly packed their luggage, and then took them to headquarters. The action followed a sudden de- cision of Sir John Anderson, Min- ister for Home Security, to intern the alien women without reaxami- | " | Calais (3) as a springboard for the attack o1 England. The | Allies denied the capture but admitted the seizure of Boulogne. nation by alien tribunals. Most of them were taken from the thickly | populated areas of South London. Enemy alien women previously had been classed in category B, which placed them under minor re- strictions. These forbade possession of automobiles or cameras, as well as traveling more than 5 miles from home. Special police permission was required for changes of ad- dress. Defense (Continued From FXr_srtiligge.\ Army of the United States be in- creased to 750,000 men. The present strength of the Army is 255,000, and the military defense appro- priation for the coming year only THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO MARGATE AMSGATE | | | FRENCH WITHDRAW IN ONE in the Valenciennes sector ( | Courtrai (4) southward to meet { from Arras and heading toward on Menin, west of Courtrai and Zeebrugge, Ostend and Dunkerq Claiming Calais, the Germans Gravelines and Dunkerque. SECTOR—A French withdrawal 6) and German thrusts from a column coming northeastward Lille marked the latest Flanders fighting today, with a powerful German drive now centering east of Ypres. Fearful, England started a new series of evacuations (1) as the Germans bombed ue, and claimed to have captured asserted they would head for The Northern Allied Army and the French Southern Army continued to hammer at the bottle- neck (5) between Bapaume and Peronne through which the German Army and its supplies poured westward. —A. P. Wirephoto. \British Imperial Master Strategist by raises it to the authorized peacetime strength of 280,000. | Senator Lodge declared, however, | that the National Defense Act of 1920, which was based on World War experience, needs revision. In | addition to adding nearly 500,000 | men to the Army, the Senator argued for purchase of 2,000 new | tanks. He gave the present number as 400. The Massachusetts Senator said that, while 300,000 men will take part | in the August maneuvers of the| Army, the number will be “only | three-fourths the size of the late | Dutch army.” He announced that within the next few days he expects to present to the | Senate the draft of a proposed new | military poliey for this Government. | Barbour Introduces Resolution. | Other developments today were: Senator Barbour, Republican, of | New Jersey, offered a resolution in- tended to place Congress on record against a dictatorship even in the event of a national emergency, by rlacing time limits on the power ot | the President or other officials to suspend civil liberties or lift labor law restrictions. Senator Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania, proposed use of a sub- | etantial part of the new $975,650,000 W. P. A. relief fund for national de- | fense projects. 1 Registration of all aliens, at post offices, within four months is only | one feature of the measure adopicd by the Judiciary Committee today. | It also fixes heavy penalties for at- tempting to circulate subversive ! propaganda in the military forces, and broadens the grounds on which aliens may be deported. In making the suggestion for use | of W. P. A. funds, Senator Reed said | the fund just approved by the House may be spent in eight months and that another $500,000,000 relief ap- propriation probably will be consid- ered when Congress returns, “Here is about a billion and a half dollars, much of which can be used to promote our national defense pro- ! gram,” Senator Davis observed, “The War Department shortly will know what definite work projects will be | necessary to promote national de- fense. Projects would include air- ports, highways, flood control and training facilities of all kinds.” Suggests Liaison Unit. Senator Davis suggested forma- tion of a liaison unit made up of rep- resentatives of W. P. A, P. W.'A,, R. F. C. and the War and Navy Depart- ments. Meanwhile, there was still only gpeculation on Capitol Hill as to whether Congress will attempt to deal with the financing problem now or on its return. With .Jeaders aiming at adjournment between June 8 and 15, a last-minute tax bill appeared almost out of the question. There remained the pos- sibility, however, of a move to raise the $45,000,000,000 public debt limit. The administration is believed in some congressional quarters to be considering the advisability of lifting the debt ceiling by $5,000,000,000 to make certain the Treasury would not confront financing difficulties before the next Congress convenes. Some of those who deal with revenue leg- islation are satisfied, however, that the whole question of financing the defense program could wait until January, on the assumption the ob- ligations being incurred would not all be paid out until after that date. Two Naval Bills. ‘The House has set aside tomorrow for consideration of two naval au- thorization bills. One is intended to sanction the proposed increase in Navy planes from 3,000 to 10,000, along with authority to train 16,000 pilots and to build 20 score bases for the Air Corps along the At- lantic, the Pacific and at important insular possessions. The second measure is designed to expedite the letting of contracts and to speed up work in navy yards and private ship yards by permit- ting more than 40 hours a week With time-and-a-half for overtime. ‘The Senate expects to start de- bate by tomorrow on the bill which passed the House before the war situation became acute, authorizing more ships for the Navy. The Sen- ate may incorporate in this measure the newly proposed expansion of naval air defense the House is con- sidering as a separate bill. This His Fellow-Officers By the Asscciated Press. LONDON, May 27.—The new British imperial staff commander Commander '‘Once Had Price on His Head | Lt. Gen. Dill Termed is said once to have had a price of | | $2,000 on his head. For the rebellious Arab chieftain who offered the prize, $2,000 was | probably a lot of money, so he; wasn't underestimating the value of Lt. Gen. Sir John Greer Dill, then supreme commander of the British | Gen. | military forces in Palestine. Dill's reputation for energy and quick decisions had preceded him to the Near East in 1936. The story may be apocryphal, but in any case it's told still in British Army circles and it served to illus- trate the character of the man chosen today to replace Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside as head of Britain's Army and her chief strategist. He's an Ulsterman, born 58 years ago on Christmas Day to John Dill of Belfast and his wife, Jane. His army career has been successful from its beginning. He studied at Cheltenham College and at Sandhurst and entered the army in 1901. the Queen’s Medal with five clasps. A tall, well-made man, with trim mustache and smiling eyes, he be- came a captain in 1911, a major in 1914. He served in the World War and was decorated with the Distin- guished Service Order for bravery. He became a colonel in 1920, a major general in 1930 and a lieu- tenant general in April, 1936. After the World War he commanded the 2d Infantry Brigade, had two years as army instructor at the Imperial Defense College, and was later com- mander of the staff college at Camberley. He also served one year in India as principal staff officer at Quetta. While serving against | | the Boers in South Africa, he won LT. GEN. SIR JOHN GREER DILL. In the general staff talks with France and Belgium which followed Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland in March, 1936, he was one of Britain's representatives, and under Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip he was active in drawing up plans for British rearmament. Fellow officers have described him | as one of the most brilliant men in | the British Army and a master | strategist. For a time he was direc- tor general of military operations and intelligence, serving in that capacity from 1934 to 1936, when he resigned to take supreme command in Palestine. He remained there for one year. He later commanded Britain’s huge infantry base at Aldershot, and last October went to France as com- mander of the 1st Corps of ithe British Expeditionary Force. Last month he was appointed vice chief of the imperial general staff to “relieve the strain” on Gen. Ironside. Upon the appointment he moved from France to London. (Confirmation of the following dispatch was not obtained from any other source. The Associated Press was told by the Belgian Red Cross, Belgian authorities in New York and United States officials in Paris that they have no knowl- edge of an American hospital in Ostend.) 'By ROBERT J. CASEY, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, May 27—All the doctors and nurses, some 200 wounded civilian patients and a number of refugees who had come to the American Hospital in Ostend, Belgium, for shelter are re- ported to have been killed in a bombing raid yesterday. Reports of the tragedy were re- ceived in France, first from airmen who fought the German bombers over Ostend and were witnesses to the latter part of the raid. Later reports contained additional details. The bomb fleet reportedly came over in the early morning, a dozen planes flying low. Hundreds of per- sons are said to have flowed into the streets searching for shelters and there was a rush toward the Ameri- can Hospital. Its broad roof had been freshly painted with a huge red cross on a white ground. In addition, the American flag had been painted on the roof alongside the Red Cross. Many people, according to the re- port, ran to the hospital and crowd- ed into it, and at that moment the first bomb fell. It was a 200-pound missile, which took a wall out of the nurses’ dormitory building, the reports said. [} After that the planes took altitude and dived, not leaving any doubt about their objective, according to my informants. The building, one of the most Don't live with damp walls when Cabot's Waterproofing will cure them. would hasten final enactment. 4 4 922 N. Y. Ave. No. 8610 4 U.S. Hospital in Ostend Razed By Bombs, Airmen Report completely equipped hospitals in | Europe, reportedly disintegrated in wreckage. The fire spread rapidly a few seconds, after which a second wave of planes came hurtling down to drop incendiary bombs on the and completely, and I was told it seems unlikely that any person came out of it alive. This story has been confirmed by Belgian representatives in France. (Copyright, 1940, Chicago Dally News, Inc.) Attacks on Red Cross Ambulances by Nazi Flyers Reported By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 27—An official of the American field service operating in conjunction with the French Army said yesterday the service had ordered Red Crosses on 20 ambulances paint- ed out because they “only at- tract the attention of German pilots” and “do not protect our men.” “For the last 10 days our cars have been bombed and machine- gunned sometimes by planes flying as low as 50. feet,” the official said. ‘The American Volunteers Am- bulance Corps is leaving crosses and United States flags on their cars for the time being. 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A navicert is a paper certifying the nature of a cargo and approved by British officials. (It was stated that following Sir Wilfrid Greene’s return to London today from Rome, the plan would ease the way to a reasonable agreement regarding operation of control). Italians Skeptical. Most Italians believed any relaxa- tion of the contraband control would fall far short of meeting Fascist “aspirations” for territorial and other concessions so long as the British held the keys to Gibral- itar and the Suez Canal, the two gateways to the Mediterranean which Italians call "mare nostrum” (our sea). British newspaper correspondents said they had been instructed from home to be prepared to leave. The week-old ‘ban preventing the Vatican City newspaper L'Osserva- tore Romano from appearing on Rome newsstands was lifted, but an informed source said the news- paper had agreed to exclude war comment from its columns and to confine its war coverage to official bulletins. Signs of War Fever. In the atmosphere of intense preparations for war, these develop- ments occurred yesterday: 1. Premier Mussolini conferred with army chiefs, directors of mobil- ization and arms producers and subsequently orders were issued to expand the production of artillery and to conserve the nation’s gasoline supplies by suspending civilian motor traffic June 1. 2. Banners bearing the words “War, War!” and “Duce, We Want to March!” were raised before the Premier in Mussolini forum at the end of a gymnastic exhibition by 10,000 Fascist youths. Mussolini watched impassively, 3. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano returned from a tour of Albania—conquered and annexed by Italy in April, 1939—in which he received pledges of Albanian support in any Italian war effort. The British announcement that Italy had proposed “a very satis- factory basis” for a contraband agreement came as Sir Wilfrid Greene, British economic expert, left | Rome after conducting negotiations regarding the contraband control and trade questions. Foreign observers said they were puzzled by the announcement be- cause they had been given to under- stand that Mussolini had rejected both English and French offers as being “too little and too late.” The British were reported to have been ready in effect to lift the con- traband control to permit large sup- plies of raw materials to reach Italy in return for an Italian promise to prevent them- from reaching Ger- many. Some observers wondered whether Italy would accept an end to con- trol in the Mediterranean as mean- ing an end to her Mediterranean “imprisonment”—something she has insisted must be terminated. The question also was raised whether the war preparations of the last few weeks constituted a temporary crisis which now would disappear. Foreign Circles Skeptical. Foreign circles, however, were skeptical over the possibility of a lasting understanding between Rome and London as the Italian press was predicting a German attack on the British Isles and collapse of the British and French Empires. Some observers expressed belief the British contraband control an- nouncement may have been a last- minute effort to deprive Italy of a powerful motive for entering the war. British control of the Med- iterranean, dramatized by the block- ade, has been the focal point of Fascist odium, Leaders at Conference. Mussolini began his series of con- ferences by meeting with Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, army chief of staff; Gen. Ubaldo Soddu, under- secretary for , war; Gen. Angelo Rossi, assistant chief of staff for anti-aircraft defense; Gens. Camillo Grossi and Alfredo Guzzoni, and Lt. Col. Piacentini of the mobiliza- tion office of the war ministry. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of staff of all the armed forces, did not attend the meeting. ————————————— “See Ets and See Better™ O ARE YOUR GLASSES BE- COMING? Glasses, as well as clothes, should be se- lected with regard for per- sonal appearance. A - ing style adds much to the satisfaction of the wearer. OQur modern designs in mounting reflect the demand for beauty and distinction, ETZ Optometrists 608 13th N.W. Setween ¥ and @ N.W. D. C, MONDAY, raid which created this havoc German BERLIN, May 27 (#).—The fol- lowing is the text of today's high command communique.: continued their attacks and have further hemmed together encircled enemy armijes. North of Menin an especially deep breach into the enemy front was | made which brought us close to Ypres. As on previous days strong air force units participated in the army’'s advance. The severity of the attacks was | most effectively centered on the re- gion where the enemy armies are trapped. German troops attacked northeast of Lens and later repulsed, with bloody losses for the enemy, troops. Calais Is Captured. As previously reported in a spe- cial announcement, Calais, which was encircled behind and in front, fell into our hands after hard fight- ing. At Boulogne First Lt. Van- Jaworski of an armored regiment, whose tank was a target for several enemy warships, set one destroyer on fire by gun fire. To frustrate attempts of the Eng- lish to bring parts of their encir- cled troops across the Channel to England the air force again raided those ports on the Belgian-French enemy hands. The port facilities of Dunkerque are burning. No special events on the southern front. In recent fights south of Sedan Lt. Mueller of the anti-tank de- tachment of one infantry regimént incapacitated 5 of 11 heavy enemy dered. Airports Near Paris Attacked. The raids of the air force were also concentrated against airports in the vicinity of Paris, against traffic facilities south of Reims and against enemy troop movements. On one airport alone 20 enemy planes were destroyed. Enemy losses yesterday amounted to 73 planes, of which 32 were shot down in air fights, 15 by anti-aircraft guns and the rest destroyed on the ground. Fifteen of our own planes are missing. On the Narvik battlefields, moun- tain chasers were again landed yes- terday by parachutes. An enemy airplane carrier which on May 24 already was heavily struck by a bomb in Ofotfjord near Narvik, was sunk May 25 off Harstad after hav- ing been hit anew by three bombs, one of which was of the heaviest caliber as already announced. Furthermore we succeeded in sinking by bomb hits one merchant 25 EVENING RATES 6 P.M. TO MIDNITE 1320 N. Y. AVE. Add. 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