Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1940, Page 1

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CHURCHILL PLEDGES EMPIRE FIGHT TO END ‘Fleet Will Carry on From ‘New World’ Even if Britain s Con 35,000 Allied Troops Escaped; unkerque Fortress Falls to Nazis British Losses Set at 30, 000 Coast South to Somme In German Hands “We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for a moment heliev‘e, t! is subjugated and starving, his island or even a part of it , then our empire across the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet will carry on the struggle until in God’s good time the New World in all its strength and might sets forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.” —British Prime Minister Churchill. Partial Text of Prime Minister Churchill's Speech, Page A-7. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 4.—Britai in will fight from the outposts of Empire, if need be alone, until “the New World” comes to her rescue, Winston Churchi today. 11 told the House of Commons In a long war statement, during which he listed the British dead, wounded or missing in Flanders at 30,000 and the Allied rescued at 335,000, must carry on at all odds. Should England or a part of it be subjugatey eur empire across the seas, armed and guarde will continue the struggle. Fleet,” (Canada would be the nea: Mr. Churchill asserted Britain | , he said. “then rest point to the conflict among the empire’s dominions, although Mr. Churchill presumably was speaking as well of Australasia, India, South Africa and all the other imperial colonies.) Mr. Churchill made it plain that he “did not for a moment that Britain and France would work on together “like good com- rades.” However, he looked ahead to the darkest eventuality. “We shall go on to the end, shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. “we We "’ the Prime Minister said. shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. “We Shall Never Surrender.” “We shall defend our island shall fight on the beaches. whatever the cost may be. We We shall fight on the landing grounds We shall fight in the fields and streets and in the hills.” “We shall never surrender a nd even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or even a part of it is subjugated and starving, then our empire across seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God'’s good time the New World and in all its strength and liberation of the Old.” He said the Allies had suffered “a colossal military disaster,” that the French Army had been drawal a week ago, he continued, | w weakened and Belgium lost. The deliverance of the troops from Dunkerque, he said, was largely due to the work of the Royal Air Force, guarding the 220 light warships and 620 other vessels employed in the work. He said 30,000 men in the B. E. F. had been killed, wounded or are missing, but added produly that! 350,000 Allied troops had been saved | from annihilation or capture. To Rebuild B. E. F. Mr. Churchill disclosed that the| R. A F. used “part of the main metropolitan fighter strength” to guard London to strike at German bombers and their protecting fight- ers who were harassing the move- ment of the troops across the Chan- nel. “We will reconstitute and build up the B. E. F. once again under its gallant commander in chief, Lord | Gort,” he said. Against the loss of the 30,000 men, many of whom he predicted would return home safely, Mr. Churchill said “far heavier loises were ln- flicted on the enem: Turning to the question of home defense, he said: “We have more military forces in this country at this moment than ever before in this war or in the| last.” not continue. tent with a defensive war." The fighting Prime Minister said that although some good judges had told him that 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked “it cer- tainly seemed” as though the whole of the French First Army and the Germany Clamps Down Censorship On News Matter By the Ascociated Press. BERLIN, June 4 — Germany clamped the lid of censorship tighter today on mail, telephone end telegraph service between the Reich and neutral nations. The army high command became the final authority on censorship snd communication—including the transmission of news to non-bellig- erent countries. Under order of Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command, no news about the military, eco- nomic or political situation can be sent “which would endanger the welfare of the Reich or the states with whom she is allied or on friendly terms.” Telephone and telegraph service from non-belligenent countries and telegram service to non-enemy countries is permitted only to licensed firms or individuals. \ He added, however, that “this will | We shall not be con- | and might sets forth to the rescue o E. F north of Amiens and the | Abbevme gap might be lost. When he set the time for with- “I feared it would be my hard lot ‘Lo announce the greatest mflnary disaster in our long history.” Sacrifice Not in Vain. However, he said, the Allies must be very careful not to assign “to this | deliverance the attributes of a vic- | tory.” “Wars are not won by evacuation,” the Prime Minister said. Mr. Churchill said the B. E. F. | lost nearly 1,000 guns in Flanders | and said the men who were with- jaws of death by a miracle of de- liverance.” “The whole root and core and brain of the British Army around which we were to build—and are to build—the greater British armies of | 1ater years appeared about to per- ish or to be led into ignominous and starving captivity,” Mr. Churchill said. He acknowledged that all Channel ports are in Hitler's hands and warned that “we must expect an- | other blow will be struck almost immediately at us or at the French.” He said the British resistance at Calais had enabled the Allies to| keep the port of Dunkerque open. The British commander at Calais | was given one hour to surrender, | an offer which he “spurned” and with a rifie brigade of the 60th Rifle and Queen Victoria’s rifle bat- talion of tanks and a thousand ‘l"rench defended Calais “to the last 7 were brought off by the navy and we do not know the fate of their comrades,” Mr. Churchill added. These troops “added a page to the glory of the light division,” Mr. Churchill declared. “Their sacrifice was not, however in vain. * * * Two armored divisions which otherwise would have been turned against the British Expedi- tionary Force had to be sent to over- come them.” The time gained by the resistance (See LONDON, Page A-5) | Britain Expects fo Resume Soviet Relations Soon By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 4—R. A. Butler, undersecretary for foreign affairs, told the House of Commons today that Britain was prepared to enter into fully normal relations with So- viet Russia. Mr. Butler added that he hoped to be able to reply tomorrow when dip- lomatic representation by an am- bassador in Moscow would be re- sumed. “The British Ambassador to Rus- sia, Sir Willilam Seeds, arrived in London last January 10 on leave from his post and has not returned. A by the British drawn were “brought back from the.| “Only 30 unwounded - survivors ~ War Bulletlns BERN, June 4 (&).— The Swiss high command announced today that “two or three” German planes were believed to have been shot down by fighters in an air battle over the Swiss Jura Moun- tains in which one Swiss plane was brought down and its pilot killed. The battle occurred near the towns of Lachauxde, Fonds and Lelocles. The German bombers })resumablv were strays rom squadrons which were reported to have attacked the Rhone Valley in France today. PARIS, June 4 (#).—A War Ministry spokesman announced today that French planes had bombed airports and industrial regions of Munich and Frankfort in reprisals for yesterday's German air raid on Paris. \Natis to Find Nothing (0f Use in Dunkerque, believe” that the Nazis could subjugate England, and he declared\ | Allies Declare War -Muteriul Destroyed; Incendiary Bombs Start Fires at Le Havre BULLETIN. PARIS (®#).—The French ad- miralty announced tonight that the last Allied naval and army units had abandoned Dunkerque, leaving that city entirely to the Germans after destroying all sup- plies. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 4.—Allied forces en- ‘ trenched in shell-shattered Dunker- que have destroyed all war material hich cannot be removed, a semi- official news agency reported today. “When the Germans enter,” the Nazi Bombers Start Fires in Le Havre PARIS, June 4 (#).—German incendiary bombs set fires in the fmportant French port of Le Havre today as Nazi flyers resumed a series of raids car- ried out against the harbor dur- ing the last two weeks. The German bombers at- tacked the city last night and this morning. On previous trips the rald- ers had carried numerous ex- plosive as well as incendiary bombs, causing some inhabi- tants to leave. Among them were the wife and daughter of Samuel H. Wiley, the United States Con- sul there, whose home on the city’s outskirts barely escaped being hit in the last raid. His wife and daughter now are en route to the United States. report added, nothing.” All other ports along the French- Belgian coast, the agency added, had been “rendered unsalable” be- fore the departure of the Allied | troops. The entrance to Nieuport Harbor | “they will find (See PARIS, Page A-3. 40,000 Prisoners Seized in Port, Berlin Clairos | By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, June 4—The German high command today claimed cap- ture of Dunkerque, Allied escape port from the Nazi trap in Flanders, and with it complete mastery of the entire French and Belgian Channel coast as far south as the Somme River. The port fell after heavy fighting, a communique said, and the German troops captured 40,000 prisoners and “a vast amount of booty.” The communique said: | “The fortress of Dunkerque has | been taken after heavy fighting. Porty thousand prisoners and a vast amount of booty fell into our hands. “As a result of this action the entire Belgian and French Channel coast up to the mouth of the Somme has been completely occu- | pied by German troops.” Big Offensive Expected. The report that Dunkerque had been captured, following swiftly | after announcement that Germnn | troops had entered it. came as, the Nazi air force, back from an | perimental” bombing of the Parls | region, waited orders to strike again —in conjunction with a great land offensive which most Germans ex- | pect to start in the west any day.| Puncture of the Allied rearguard | defending the withdrawal from the | German pocket in Flanders was | achieved in hard fighting, the high command acknowledged. “The fight for Dunkerque is near- ing its end,” the communique de- | clared. “Our troops penetrated into the town and captiired Fort Louts | from the desperately fighting en-| ‘ emy. House-to-house fighting is| still going on with French troops| whose task it was to protect the“ | flight of the British soldiers to their | vessels.” | Planes Destroyed on Ground. The German air raids yesterday destro&ed between 300 and 400 Al- lied p]nnes in hangars and on air- | flelds in addition to shooting down | 104, the communique reported, superseding an earlier special an- | nouncement. i The German fiyers, swarming over | in all kinds of vnarvlanes caught me‘ French unaware “and in attacks at | | high and low altitude * * * obtain | the strongest effect on ports and industrial establishments of the, French Air Force,” the communique ‘ said. ‘ “Numerous fires and e\plouons‘ were observed,” it said. Despite the scope of the German\ air assault, the high command said, | | only nine German planes were miss- ing. It said Allied night raids on Holland and Southern and Westeml Germany met with success “just as| small as hitherto.” While getting set for the next blow, Germany took extraordinary | steps in an effort to convince the United States that she has no de- sire to see the Western Hemisphere | involved in the war and that she is taking unusual measures to avoid even accidental affront to America. The Foreign Office formally warned the governments of the (See BERLIN, Page A-3.) Fumes Fatal to [é;yer, Felled Trying fo Save Pefs A man identified by 'nohce as Edward F. McMahon, an® attorney in the tax division of the Justice | Department, died today in a physi- | cian’s office after having said he| | sions, had been taken ill while rescuing pets from his fumes-filled Glen Mar (Md.) home. | According to police, Dr. William T. Gill, jr., 1746 K street N.W., told | them Mr. McMahon said he had been fumigating the house with | sulphur candles. 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Page A-16 Golf aces near peak in practice for National Open. Page A-17 Track records due to fall in Central college meet. Page A-18 Editorial and Comment This and THat. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner, G. Gould Lincoln. Constantine Brown. William L. White. Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Miscellany Service Orders. Vital Statistics, Nature’s Children. Serial Stories. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Winning Contract. Uncle Ray’s Corner. Crossword Puzzle. Page A-8 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-14 Page B-18 Page B-18 Page B-18 Page B-19 Page B-19 quere /To ADJOURN OR NOT To ADJOURN? % Ifalian Cabinet Okays War Plans, but Date Is Not Disclosed Speculation Ranges From This Week To End of June By the Associated Press. ROME, June 4—Speculation on the date of Italy’s plunge into war ranged today from the end of this week to the end of June as Premier Mussolini's cabinet stamped an okay on undisclosed plans for war. One source close to the govern- ment said no move to step into the | conflict was likely in the immediate future. But Italy made ready. In an anxiously awaited 90-min- ute session, with II Duce presiding, the ministers moved to extend war preparations to Italy’s African em- Italian Line Revises New York Sailings Through July 13 By the Associated Pross. NEW YORK. June 4.—The Italian Line today began plac- ing advertisements listing a revised schedule of sailings from New York to Italy. The Rex, largest ship in the Italian merchant marine, is scheduled to leave New York June 22 and other sailings were listed for June 29, July 6 and July 13. The line recently postponed all passenger ship sailings be- tween Italy, the United States and South America, giving a lack of business as the cause. pire, to strengthen the navy and tighten discipline in the war indus- tries. But Italy's position as a non- belligerent ally of Germany re- mained unchanged by the meeting, to which the world had looked for days for a clue to Il Duce's next move. The measure dealing with war industries provided punishment for infractions of discipline which would interfere with output. Mussolini’s cabinet ministers, who all hold army or militia commis- were reported planning to take their posts in command of | Italy’s armed forces. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Ettore Muti, secretary of the Fascist party, were expected to take command of aviation squad- rons as they did in the Ethiopian campaign. There was a report that Mussolini might tell Italy's war aims in an extraordinary session of the Fascist (See ROME, Page A-5.) Nurse's $20,000 Verdict Against Hospifal Upheld Upsetting a legal tradition in tHe Capital, Justice James M. Proctor held today in District Court, in a memorandum opinion, that hospitals may be sued and so allowed a $20,000 verdict, recently rendered in favor of a nurse, to stand. Nurse Susan M. Hughes, 3249 N street N.W., sued for $25,000, claim- ing injuries when she was struck by & swinging door at Georgetown Hos- pital on October 29, 1934. The door was flung open by a student nurse. Miss Hughes contended that because of the injury she had a fractured left hip and has been completely disabled since, on relief and required the use of crutches. Miss Hughes, through her counsel, Emmett Leo Sheehan, John A. K. Donovan and Maurice Lanman, jr., contended the president and direc- tors of Georgetown College, who op- erate the hospital, should be made to pay. LY ¥ 'As Nazis Storm In fo (Louis P. Lochner, chief of th II1, King of the Belgians. War.) By LOUIS P. Associated Press Wi Leopold Letter to Roosevelt Tells His Side of Capitulation Ambassador Cudahy Pays Visit to King; Declines to Give Message’s Contents e Berlin bureau of the Associated Press, set out to find out all he could about the surrender of Leopold Here is his story, obtained after being under fire, on one of the most dramatic incidents of the European LOCHNER, ‘ar Correspondent. WITH THE GERMAN ARMY, June 4—John Cudahy, United States Ambassador to Belgium, disclosed today that President Roosevelt, from a personal letter written him by King Leopold III of the Belgians, knows the inside story of the King's capitulation to the Germans. Mr. Cudahy visited Leopold Sunday for two hours at the castle as- signed him by the German Army. Here. the defeated King handed Roosevelt, told his side of the story. Mr. Cudahy declined to comment on the letter or the status of Leo- | pold. The American Ambassador is out of touch with the world, living | |on an island, as it were. He has| contact with neither Washington nor Berlin. | | Still, he sticks to his post, for he | | feels he has big work to do with the | | Red Cross. He realizes Belgium | | has food for only 50 more days, as- in which the monarch # Mr. Cudahy the letter for President suming the Germans do not requisi- tion it Realizing that Leopold's dramatic story had never been told, we made a detour of more than 100 miles from France into Brussels. Since Mr. Cudahy felt it compatible with his present position to comment, an intimate friend of the royal family was interviewed. (See LEOPOLD, Page A-3. 'Dunkerque in Flames Bag 60,000 French Area Is Alive With Roar Of Planes and Shells as Germans Crouch for Kill By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press War Correspondnet. WITH THE GERMAN ARMY, | June 4.—T crouched yesterday in a trench on the outskirts of Dun- kerque and watched as what Ger- mans called the last chapter in the | wiping out of France's Army of the | North began to unfold itself. Dunkerque was in flames. This important English Channel port was being bombarded by Stukas and | shelled by German heavy artillery. We saw the burning city before us. The British were already either’ wiped out or captured or had mude‘ a getaway to England, so that prac- tically only the French remained. Today we learned that the first German vanguard entered the city this morning. Some 60,000 Frenchmen, accord- ing to a German estimate, were left in a small area 6 by 9 miles, with Dunkerque as its center. Following the German Army as it dashed from place to place with blitzkrieg rapidity, I had succeeded in getting to Bergues, a strongly fortified suburb of Dunkerque, about five miles from the Channel port, by Sunday afternoon. Rough Living. For 48 hours we had had no warm meals, but lived on hardtack, canned blood sausage and champagne— drinking water being of doubtful purity. We had slept on hard floors or long tables, as for example in the Chamber of Commerce at Cambrai. Faced with the impossibility of getting military lines cleared for Berlin, we finally motored 200 miles to reach a telephone. All this time we had been out of communication with the world. We had reached St. (See DUNKERQUE, Page A-4.) Fascist Roundup Pressed LONDON, June 4 (#)—The gov- ernment pressed its roundup of British Fascists throughout the na- tion today, arresting two at Canter- bury, from 30 to 40 at Manchester, including several women; ohe on the Isle of Wight, three at Lowestoft and one at Blackpool. A quantity of Fascist literature was seized at Blackpool. Marshall Favors Presidential Control Over National Guard ‘Dangers That Might Be Serious’ for Panama Canal Seen by General BULLETIN. Chairman Walsh of the Senate Naval Committee told his col- leagues today he believed the United States was now “making arrangements” for new defense bases in Central and South America. By the Associated Press. Gen. George C. Marshall said to- | day that President Roosevelt shotld have peace-time power to call up the National Guard because there were “a variety of minor involve- ments that could easily grow to more serious proportions.” The Army chief of staff told the House Military Committee that “there were ddngers that might be serious, specifically with relation to the Panama Canal. With regard to possible use of the National Guard, Gen. Marshall said he and the War Department were thinking exclusively of the Western Hemisphere. The proposed au- thority for summoning the Guard, he said, would include power for the President to send it outside Continental United States. When the committee evidenced interest in this and related con- siderations behind the request for authority to call yp the Reserve, in- cluding the National Guard, Gen. Marshall expressed reluctance to discuss such questions in open ses- sion. Immediately a closed session was ordered. Gen. Marshall had declared pre- vious to that that the President should have the peacetime authority to eliminate the necessity for sum- moning Congress into special ses- sion should occasion for use of the Guard arise. Emphssizing that the War De- partment contemplated no large expeditions, he compared the Na- tional Guard to a “fire extinguisher,” (See MARSHALL, Page A-2) Plane Hits Balloon Cable LONDON, June 4 (A).—A heavy British bomber was destroyed when it collided with a barrage balloon cable over the east coast last night, the Air Ministry announced today. [ d, in- | He Says President Asks $1,217.14,170 In Arms Request Funds to Start 68 Ships Sought; Army Allotted 707 Million BULLETIN. The Senate approved legislation today authorizing expansion of the naval air force to 10,000 planes, manned by 16,000 pilots, and providing for the establish- ment of a defensive ring of air bases around the United States. Congressional tax leaders were reported authoritatively today to be considering a boost in the pending defense tax bill to more than $1,000,000,000. One method proposed was broadening the in- come tax base and increasing the rates on incomes below $60,000. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt asked Con- gress today for funds to start 68 new naval vessels in submitting a defense request for $1,277.741,170 for both the Army and Navy. The Executive said last week he would ask for “over a billion.” The presidential request, sent to Speaker Bankhead and dispatched immediately to the House Appropri- ations Committee, was for $507.253.- 170 cash and $63.560,000 contractual authority for the Navy and $452.751.- | 239 cash and $254,176,761 contractual authority for the Army. The vessels for which Mr. Roose- velt asked initial construction funds were 3 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers, | 22 submarines and 30 destroyers. Another large item in the request | included $180,889.395 cash and $109.- 259,597 contract authority for Army Airplanes. Defense Bill 4.6 Billions. The requests laid down by Mr. Roosevelt today placed the Nation's regular and emergency defense bill, as projected in various appropria- tions measures pending befors Con- gress, at $4,600,000,000. The President’s main previous recommendations were for $1823,- 000,000 in regular and emergency funds for the Army and $1473 000 1n regular and emergency navai appropriations. His latest request put into a | specific form the general request he made last week when he said that more than a billion dollars addi- tional would be needed. The Navy would be provided with | $22,885,000 for new airplanes and | equipment under | new proposal. the President's The request included $103,800,000 for improvement of naval shore stations, including establishment of a far-flung airbase system. A cash fund of $2900,000 for Army flying fields also was proposed. The cash request for starting work on the new naval vessels was $144,- 000,000, and $78,400000 was pro- posed for armor, guns and am- munition for new vessels, while $63,028,370 cash and $28,650,000 con- tract authority was asked for ord- nance, which covers such items as guns and torpedoes. Earlier, Secretary of State Hull announced that “I heartily ap- prove” a resolution declaring the United States would not recognize or aquiesce in transfer of any West- ern Hemisphere region from one un-American power to another. Secretary Hull made the state- ment in a letter to Chairman Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee. Representative Bloom made the letter public after the com- mittee had discussed the resolution for two hours without taking any action. “The proposed resolution,” Sec- retary Hull's letter said, “is based (See DEFENSE, Page A-4) |Nats, in Batting Spree, Lead Indians, 510 1 A barrage of five straight singles and a double off the bats of the Nationals sent Mel Harder, veteran Cleveland pitcher, to the showers in the fourth inning of today's game at Griffith Stadium and the Nats were leading, 5 to 1. Ken Chase was on the mound for the Griffmen and gave up a run in the second inning. Germans Using Bomb Weighted With Concrete By H. TAYLOR HENRY, Associated Press War Correspondent. WITH THE FRENCH AIR FORCE ON THE NORTHERN FRONT, June 4—The German Air Force is using a new reinforced concrete bomb in its attacks on French airports. The explosive is contained in a- core of concrete which is itself placed inside an ordinary steel bomb. Ordinary explosive bombs have been discovered to do relatively little damage to a landing field becsuse the bombs explode almost on the surface and spray out in a cone rather than dig a deep crater. The new concrete bomb, how= ever, gives added weight, farcing the projectile deeper into the ground and ripping out a gaping hole, r