Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1940, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. Great Counter-Blow Expected v ] iF ol FREE Of Weygand by French People , Wi l l PARKING Gibbs Holds Britons Deserve News Of Trapped Army From Lord Gort ’)/0“ ) at All Four g Stores By SIR PHILLIP GIBBS, black side of war’s infernal picture. British War Correspondent. Too little has been said about it. PARIS, May 31 (by wireless).— | There are people still who do not b The British Expeditionary Forces| realize the inferno which has swept in Flanders are making a last stand | over Europe. with their backs to the sea and the| There is a brighter side, too. It - nlll'—o A.". IO ’ P.'. enemy pressing hard upon them is the spirit of faith and even of . ) 5 ; Suc from three sides. Among them are | c(;nfldence which :ums in n‘:g m;‘nds 2 S.‘“,d'y, 4 the guards—the Grenadier, Co!d- of every man and woman to whom * stream and Welsh Guards—High-|I speak in France. They are dis- / 8 AM. to'10 P.M. landers, Irish Fusiliers and men of | appointed that it was impossible to Always Fresher all the English country regiments.|strike northward from the Somme With them also are the cavalry,|and the Aisne in time to cut through Fn““'s & “GETABLES who left their horses for light tanks | the German columns on their way and made the first reconnaisance in | to_the coast and link up with the Belgium, and the black beret men | Allied troops between Peronne and of the Royal Tank Regiment, with | Cambrai. 3 medium tanks that are no match in | Predict Action by Weygand. weight for the German monsters.| That hope and chance have gone, & A Se eCte ’ Artillery, anti-aircraft batteries,| but the man in the street and the ambulances, mechanical excavators| man in the cafe here in France are 4 s F D and a mass of men and material | certain that Gen. Maxime Weygand Re 'R"Pe, F‘lfm . which a modern army needs for its| Will, in good time, strike the great life and equipment have been caught | counterblow. “He will not attack s $ s T in this dreadful man-trap which|in small pockets” they say. “That S 1Clng Il‘lrtety closes in upon them with steel, | Mistake cost us dearly in the last ’ H . now that the Belgian Army has laid | War." v down its arms by the order of a| They are patient in the belief craven who has betrayed his Allies. | that Gen. Weygand will choose the That British Army in Flanders, | lieht moment to turn the tide. May ’ from whom I have been cut off on that faith be justified before many ' the south side of the Somme after | 42Ys have passed. Certain it is that being with them since the beginning {h_" Shemtnidny By ol i of the war and through the long, | 255¢S: ey, axe niob S0kl ong fus grim winter, is in the direst peril, | they were 21 days ago, although still as all the world knows. | with immense reserves behind them. France also has immense - = Fight in Haunted Fields. reserves. 3 4 o "G er' 22 They have been fighting back for (Released by the North American o L ial reat ar etS! 21 days from the east of Brussels by Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) way of Louvain to Cambrai and : "Sunkist” Valencie—Best for Juice ?f:?{%“: 'r:]%‘\:.ln?{fét ;m-‘n'lf»r:;?szfléMemorlul Day Crowds Fuuy Podded : 14th and RHODE nts — ot e 88,1 9% ot World's Fir Record | ORANGES i C || ™ IsLAND AVE. NE. and Menin and Cassel on the hill- | top. They have been pursued all'B!"'}“‘Mmmwd S Tender Grem NEW YORK, May 31.—Memorial the way/by German bombers: these , May _—————— black bats of death which seem in- | DAY throngs totaling 316,899 set a 5 . . 3 45“ W|s°0"sm new record for paid attendance at Nature’s Spring Tonic—Nearb numx;]rtabled kalthough they are| tne 1940 World's Fair yesterday and & 2 A gaug and killed in great numbersl{oppcd last year's figures for the m . 1.0 e R S | holiday by more than 100,000. b' h’ c respite for those 21 days and nighis | g TTg UG, was the ffst sunny e 16th and H S, | day here in nine days. It was not an and God alone knows what happens to their wounded. God does not tell until August 27 last year that the number of visitors passed the 300, nor does Lord Gort, from whom no | mark on an; one pday. 00 [ | STnEETs “-E- word comes. = It is time now, surely, that the Tender Green or Yellow commander in chief of this heroic Wushlngton Editor Dies c m GEonGIA army should send the nation some LONGVIEW, Wash., May 31 (#)— Ibs tidings of their sons, fighting and | D. M. Simonsen, 51, managing editor g A UE dying in this last stand, due partly "of the Longview Daily News, died [ ] VE" “uw- 8t least to the apparent treachery | last night. He suffered a paralytic of a weak young King whom the | stroke earlier in the da world till then thought very noble | —— _ s ° and very chivalrous. / " o Kitchen ueen ! The cemetries where our dead of | Tn“"Ks_ Saddlery and 4 b Q . tall the last war lay in peace with their | Luggage 0 i ke c whdite crosses have been plowed up || Repairing of Leather Goods can and ravaged by shell fire and bombs. | . - s Reconstruction Wrecked. G-W. Kml' i, SILIIKSLN.W. i L “;I'he war memo;lalls have crashed. C l.l . iti 1) ilt aff S % war—Cambrai, Arras, ‘Amiens and First Arrivals Sweet and Y:""::"g”"x many more are in ruins again. Bou- . logne and Calais are greatly dam- L From Surm sl aged by frightful bombing. Many ot The A\ ‘el . HEs French villages, untouched by the Cal;foflua ' : last war and lovely in their peaceful | (Halyes Only) countryside in this month of beauty, | | ~ have been visited by German bomb- SPECIAL_ - Ib ers and their terror from the sky. | In one of them I heard from a| sAL“n" R())’al Gelatin young girl how she and her fellowi refugees had been raked by ma- | 16 oz (1 ':9- chine-gun fire from low-flying 2 2 SER s PA9% planes as their farm carts crawled C hase & 5anborn cans g i i N e down the roads on their way of escape. ’ JOM Drip bag ey | 4 3 There is no doubt about these or Reg. mn" BEEF “As" Brand eans 25 a . things, too horrible to believe. I| 18th & G Sts. N.W. 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