Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1940, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY, JU E 5, 194 British Left Supplies for Forty Divisions in Flanders, Nazis Say French Abandoned Guns and Munitions When Fleeing Trap Tour Shows Destruction Inflicted by Tanks And Bombing Planes By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press War Correspondent. WITH THE GERMAN ARMY (By Telephone to Berlin), June 5—Sup- plies left behind by the British Ex- peditionary Force in its withdrawal from Flanders, a German officer told me today, could equip 40 Ger- man divisions—forces equal to all those of Czecho-Slovakia before its dismemberment. ‘The abandoned supplies indicated the British had kept excellent look- out for the bodily wants of their | soldiers. Traveling some 200 miles along Germany's front in France and then | toward the channel ports and final- ly into the creat Flanders trap gave me a vast picture of the retreat of the B. E. F., France’s Army of the North and Belgium's defenders. In following the French retreat along Germany's present south front, I was impressed by the fact that the French had abandoned cannons and munitions, as com- pared with the British leaving of provisions. Tanks Blown to Bits. As a speedy car hurried me along highway affer highway in Northern France, I saw cannon after cannon left by the wayside. | The German advance seemingly had been so rapid that Nazi labor battalions and highway constructors could not follow quickly enough to clear up as they had done in Hol- land and Eastern Belgium and bring | abandoned booty to collection cen- ters. ‘We had hardly crossed into France last Saturday, on a trip which kept ENG ND CALATS DUNKERQUE BOULOGNE 1 Q ABBEVILLE ARRAS o DIEPPE AMIENS NAZIS LAUNCH NEW WEST FRONT DRIVE—Within 24 hours after the fall of Dunkerque (A), English Channel port from which Allied armies, defeated in the battle of Flanders, were evacuat- ed, Adolf Hitler ordered a new German drive directed at Paris. French reports said there was activity all along the 125-mile Somme-Aisne Rivers battle front (heavy broken line), and that the heaviest attacks were at Amiens (B) and in the area between Laon and Soissons. Oufcome of War 'May Hinge on Second Phase of Blifzkrieg Hitler Appears Headed RSN \\\\\ OGHENT [ 1 /-fiounmm ILLE® ¢ LLce OTOURNAI ‘\\‘ OMONS { LS® MAUBEUGE PERONNE \s;. QUENTIN™SS ic ‘/LA/F ERE OREIMS LOUVAIN® BELGIUM MAASTRICHTR LIEGE NAMURQA> » S _OHNOEWIXNT -« HEL SEDAN N —A. P. Wirephoto Map. Delay in Preparing * - 6.0.P. Foreign Policy Plank s Proposed Senate Republicans Paris (Continued From First Page.) German casualties to date since Hitler's offensive action began | against the Low Countries and | France at between 400,000 and | 500,000 out of, roughly, 2,500,000 men ' engaged. Germary used about 80 divisions, 10 of them armored and 5 motorized, defenses scattered throughout the region. South of the Somme from the cities of Eu to Aumale, the Bresle River Valley parallels the French line. There the forests are more dense, leading French military ex- perts to pronounce them “impene- trable” to tanks and aerial recom- naissances. French Hold Rail Station. The French control the important railroad station of Longueau, south- east of the city, and the highway and railroad bridge leading into Amiens. Along the upper Somme French troops have labored unceasingly to consolidate bridgeheads and posi- tions. /These new outposts extend all the way to Ham, where the Somme veers north. In this region canals connect the Somme and the Oise. The Oise itself is on the battle | line only a short distance, since the first defense line jumps from Ham, which is southwest of St. Quentin, to Chaunty, and thence northeast- ward toward La Fere. Farther east, however, and di- rectly north of the Aisne line the Germans launched an attack which semiofficial sources described as one of the “principal” assaults. Nazi infantry moved out of the heights of the forest of Coucy toward the Ailette River and its canal. World War Battleground. This region is an old World War battleground—there was fighting there in September, 1914; in March and October, 1917, and in May, 1918. Military advices said the German attacks were aimed at the famous Chemin des Dames, near Craonne, north of the Aisne, and against the Ailette River Canal which joins the Aisne and the Ofise through Anizy-le-Chateau. This region was described in the morning communique as along the road between Laon and Soissons. The area of the intertwining highways and roads from Laon to Soissons apparently was the eastern end of the new battleground. diate reports of additional bomb- ings. The Prench high command said the army was prepared to meet any fresh ‘test and that its “whole en- ergy remains intact and ready for new battles” despite the reverse in Flanders. Gen. Marie Bertrand Alfred Fa- galde, 58, one of the heroes of Dun- kerque in the great Allied retreat from Flanders, was raised today to grand officer of the Legion of Honor on recommendation by Generalis- simo Weygand, This is the legion's highest honor. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) these attacks were staged yesterday | in anticipation of the big push. | “Near Abbeville an enemy attack | using strong artillery and tanks was | repelled,” said the daily communique of the high command. “Similarly, an attack on our fight- ing vanguards south of Longwy foundered, with heavy losses for the enemy.” The communique said Germans | “successfully attacked enemy con- | centrations south of Abbeville” and | mentioned yesterday's aerial assault | on the French port city of Le Havre, now perhaps the most vital contact between Great Britain and France. The port facilities at Le Havre, said the high command, were at- tacked by fighting and power-diving bomber units of the air arm, Occupation of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and about 10,000 square miles of Northern France since the “total war” was launched May 10 had freed Nazi legions for what Germans hope may | be the final phase of the war. | Hitler proclaimed his “boundless” | confidence in German armed forces |and asserted that German victory would answer “the plutocratic rulers | of England and France,” who, the | Fuehrér said, have pledged each | other to avoid with all means the bloom of a new and better world. * * * “Our victory will be their historic | lesson,” Hitler declared. at airdromes in the vicinity of Paris two days ago, and according to the German report, smashed from 300 to 400 French planes, furthering German numerical air superiority. Germans Confident. Germans were confident that a southward drive toward Paris across the Somme, Aisne and Oise Rivers would be no problem for the Reich Army. Some quarters said the new Nazi move might be made “in both direc- tions”—meaning against England and deeper into France at the same time. As for Paris, it was pointed out here to overcome in this direction, and that Paris is lying “practically ex- posed” before the German troops. High German circles, jubilant over the German victery in the great battle of Flanders, formally ended only yesterday, confidently predicted that the new attack was opening “probably the last phase of the war.” First word of the new attack came direct from the Fuehrer's headquar- ters on the western front in two announcements, one an order of the day to the German armed forces and the second a message to the German people. In triumphant phrases Hitler told the German people of conclusion of the battle of Flanders and stated: “This morning German divisions and air squadrons began anew the march for continuation of the fight for the liberty and future of our people.” He ordered an eight-day celebra- tion of the Flanders victory in which flags are to be displayed from homes and in which bells are to toll for three days. “Their sound,” he added omin- ously, “may unite with prayers with which the German people from now on will again accompany their sons.” New Divisions Assisting. Hitler said “many new divisions” were assisting in the new onslaught. In looking for a drive on Paris informed Germans discounted as of no value the statement of Gen. Weygand of French determination that there are no fortification lines | Mrs. Morrow Urges Effective Aid for Allies in Radio Talk Recommends Sending All Types of Supplies To Beat Off Germany By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, widow of a one-time United States Senator and Ambas- | sador to Mexico, appealed last night for United States aid to Britain and France “as a matter of self-inter- est,” because, she said, a Nazi vic- tory would mean that “our peaceful | way of life will be endangered for | & generation at least.” “Short of actually declaring war,” | she said, “I believe that everything | we have which we could give with- |out impairing our own safety—‘all | that is within us'—should go to {help them win on the field of | battle.” | Thus again she differed with her | son-in-law, Col. Charles A. Lind- | bergh, on this country’s policy in the European conflict. She has sev- | eral times urged help for the Allies, }while Col. Lindbergh last fall fa- \vored an embargo on offensive weapons to belligerents and last month declared Americans need not fear a foreign invasion unless they | “bring it on throygh their own quar- | reling and meddling with affairs | abroad.” Mrs. Morrow, the acting president {of Smith College, spoke on an N. B. C. network under the auspices of the Committee for American De- fense Through Aid for the Allies. She said there was “no thought |of our sending an army abroad,” but contended that “the best means | of avoiding this type of involve- | ment” was the sending of munitions | and supplies, food, money, air- planes, ships “and everything that | | Aisne-Som | could help them win in their strug- T, me sector from trench gle against Germany.” i | “The need is immediate,” she said e new | ) s(:;,h in f:;,afnl‘;,ee :‘;.cmfl;,mm;};f C‘;:‘(E‘at another point, “it is a matter mand said in a long statement late | Of days. Let us strengthen their For Quick Victory or Swift Defeat By DEWITT MACKENZIE, a spokesman said. The armored divisions were estimated to have lost from one-third to one-half their strength. Suggest Watching European Situation By the Associated Press. Spokesmen Reserved. Authorized spokesmen were re- served about the new offensive. They intimated it might be several days Soissons is 58 miles northeast 0(' Paris, Laon 75. Laon had been the | southernmost point of the German | thrust in this region last month, us incommunicado until yesterday. when at Beaumont we saw evidence of the fury of Germany's Stukas— the dive bombers. Some of France's heaviest tanks of the 30-ton type had come down | & street running east and west Several bombs dropped on build- ings at this intersection, blowing them to smithereens. apparently lifted the tanks out of their relative positions with the power of a tornado, for several of them were telescoped into one another, while half a dozen others | were hurled against buildings. * Officers Machine-Gunned. Messerschmitt pursuit planes ap- parently followed the Stukas and machine-gunned officers and men a5 they crawled out of the tanks. . Whoever remained in tanks and i+ was ready to continue on the way was surprised by the quickly ap- proaching German tanks before he could gather his wits. . These tanks finished what the Stukas and Messerschmitts—dive- bombers and fighting planes—left undone. It was a ghastly sight, but nothing compared with what we en- countered Sunday on a road near Enclos outside Lille. Here probably the greatest tank battle of the war—and all time— had taken place. English Bibles, French prayer- books, rosaries, detective novels, bloody helmets and grimy uniforms were scattered in grotesque confu- sion. We stepped cautiously among hand grenades which nobody had had time to remove. Some Localities Escape. We saw letters from wives and sweethearts strewn around, some written in French, some in English. ‘We passed through such French places of World War memory as Cambrai, Arras, Bethune, St. Omer, Lille, St. Pol and Armentieres. Everywhere the picture was the| same: The blitzkrieg had moved | like a windstorm, striking this or | that locality, as an American tor- nado does, while the next place is some of the fiercest fighting in the | untouched. | Streets actually involved in the| fighting were marked by two things —abandoned tanks or cannons and furiously bombed individual build- ings. In Flanders, the difference be- | tween 1940 and the 1914-18 period ‘was even more marked. In the last| ‘war, according to all accounts, most cities and villages in combat areas ‘were virtually razed. Now, however, even Ypres, al- though shelled, emerged with the Menin Gate only partly damaged | and with the famed cemetery un- | scathed. The bridge before the Menin Gate, however, had been | blasted. Ghent Damaged Little. Although a big battle raged for days around Ghent and the civilized world feared that its art treasures | might be demolished, the city itself was damaged but little. Bruges, where King Leopold IIT of Belgium held forth until his surrender, escaped disaster by ca- pitulation. In Ostend the harbor and wharves were shelled, but the residential section was spared in the main. Hundreds of cannon stood abandoned and munitions stacked‘ in boxes nearby. Rubber tires appeared to be especially welcome finds for the Germans. Often we would en- couriter German cars with worn-out tires pausing on the roadside be- fore an abandoned enemy car to substitute its almost new tires for the threadbare German ones. British motor cycles also seemed %0 be favorites and were pressed into service almost immediately. German officers accompanying us also as- serted that huge stocks of new cars were found in salesrooms and fac- tories of Belgium and Northern France. Army of World Jews To Aid Allies Suggested By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—A universal army of Jews—recruited from every quarter of the world to fight with Britain and France against Nazi Germany—was proposed yesterday by the new Zionist organization. Vladimir Jabotinsky, world presi- dent of the organization and or- ganizer of the World War Jewish battalions, and Col. John Henry Patterson, British commander of Jewish fighters in the last war, will discuss a recruiting program at a The explosion | Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer. The outcome of the war likely | | hinges on this second phase of Hitler's “blitzkrieg,” which was launchned at dawn against the Allied left wing in Northern France. “ We couldn't say that of the bat- tle of Flanders, world-rocking | though it was. But this may easily | | prove to be the decisive engagement. | If the Allies can stand up against | tnis new onslaught—not to talk of | throwing it back—until its fury is| spent, they will have advanced their cause immeasurably, even though | they have to give much ground. But if Hitler is able to achieve his | announced purpose of crushing the French armies, which are the Allied land bulwark, just as the British Navy is the bulwark of the seas, then to all intents he will have estab- lisned his position in continental Europe, It is difficult to see how Britain single-handed could oust him once he conquered France. The Allies have made it clear that they are expecting to see more dark days before they see better, and | they undoubtedly will. That doesn't mean that they are whipped, for they are not, but they are in for | | some tough sessions. Certainly the | | world will be forced to witness an- | ‘other blood bath. | | Heads for Quick Decision. ‘When the Nazi chieftain set his |great war machine rolling again | this morning he headed for quick | | victory or defeat, for he hasn't re- | sources for a protracted struggle. It | won't be long now before we can see the end of the road. The full scope of the Nazi drive | wasn't apparent at the outset. The initial assault was against the Allied positions on the Somme and Aisne Rivers along a front of 125 miles between the English Channel and the vicinity of Laon. All this area west of Amiens on the Somme saw World War. It looked very much as though the Germans were headed for Paris by way of the well-trodden valley of the Oise. The Allied front in this sector has been newly consolidated and strengthened under command of Generalissimo Weygand. Over a considerable stretch of the line under attack this morning the Allies had the Somme River between them and the enemy, and at numerous strategic points the Allies also held on the northern bank of the river bridgeheads which had been taken during the last few days. These advaptages the Allies will need, for the Nazi assault was de- scribed as violent. Brunt Falls on French. The brunt of the land fighting must, of course, fall on the French, since the British Expeditionary Force as a whole was temporarily put out of action in the battle of Flanders. If the French can hold the onrush for a bit, the English will be able to reorganize and get reinforcements to their colleagues. There has been no indication that Hitler intends to try his invasion of England now. Indeed, it would be the wildest sort of gamble to under- take such an operation before the Germans have consolidated their positions in Flanders and have re- conditioned the Channel ports. There can be little doubt, however, that Hitler will order intensive bombing of Channel shipping and British ports and industrial areas. The English will have to fight their way across the channel against the Nazi airforce in order to carry aid to their allies. As to hammering British industrial zones, the Ger- mans thus far haven't had much success in getting by the anti-air- craft defenses and British fighting planes. However, destruction of British industries, ports and shipping is essential if Hitler ultimately is to achieve his ambition of crushing England and putting his troops ashore. So one would expect some heavy assaults against Britain by air in conjunction with the offen- sive against the French. mass meeting here next Wednesday. Several Senate Republicans sug- gested today that fast-growing de- v 'opments in Europe make it advis- able to defer writing a foreign policy | plank at the national convention until the remainder of the platform | has been drafted. Most Republicans, they said, were more or less agreed on a strong “keep out of war” and increased de- | fense declaration. But they contended that spECific‘ language covering, for example, | American assistance to the Allies or territorial limits of United States defense policies—if such angles are to be touched on—must await con- ditions at the time the platform is ready for submission. The Platform Committee, which will meet a week in advance of the June 24 convention to start prelimi- nary discussions, is about three- fourths complete. Each State and territory will have one member. Three Senators Chosen. Among those already selected for committee memberships are three Senators—Lodge of Massachusetts, Townsend of Delaware and Thomas of Idaho—and two former Senators —Pepper of Pennsylvania and Edge of New Jersey. Senator Thomas and Senator Lodge said that a foreign policy declaration should be given most careful consideration in the light of events at convention time. The for- mer added that he was “very defi- | nitely opposed to being stampeded | into war.” Senator Townsend gave out no specific suggestions for the platform, but said it should be “short and not ramble all over the lot.” The Platform Committee is not the only one which will go to work early at Philadelphia. The Con- vention Arrangements Committee was called yesterday to meet June 19 to hear contests over the seating of delegates. Five Delegation Contests. There will be five full delegation contests, involving Florida, Louisi- ana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Alaska; also contests oyer delegates from one district each in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri and two districts in North Carolina. Party officials said the contests involve “irregularities and breaches of the rules limiting district dele- gates to two for each congressional district.” Ii any National Committee seat= ing decisions are appealed to the convention they are turned over to a Credentials Committee for hear- ing. As for the Republican presiden- tial contest, supporters of Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Taft of Ohio continued to claim top strength on the first ballot, but neither one had public pledges suffi- cient to give him a majority at that time. Virtually all delegates have been selected. Mexican Navy Redoubles Coast Neutrality Patrol By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 5.—The Navy Department announced today it had redoubled its watch along the Mexican coasts to enforce “Mexico’s neutrality.” The department said all its gunboats and Coast Guard cutters now are on patrol duty in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. There was no immediate explana- tion whether\the redoubling of the watch was motivated by any spe- cial circumstance or was due to the general international situation. The navy announcement said four Coast Guard cutters and two gunboats, the Queretaro and Dur- ango, were on patrol duty. ADVEI'I{I'IEEMINT. What A Treat For Tired Burning Feet Don't sufer the agony of tired, burning feet—don't tortare yourself with aching foo | raging with increasing violence in Armored Columns Wait. Armored columns waited for open- ings in the French lines to start| their characteristic lightning dashes | deep behind the French front, Toward nightfall the battle was the stifling heat, smoke and dust of the fields some 70 miles north | of the French capital. | Simultaneous with the assault German bombers raided an area in central France, not identified by | name. French fighters and anti- aircraft struck back. In Paris, before the Army Com- mittee of the Chamber of Deputies, | Premier Paul Reynaud voiced his | confidence that France “can hope | for a favdrable issue” of the new struggle. “We will fight to the end with our British ally for the liberty ot the world,” he said. Barrage Opens Battle. The new battle began at 4:05 a.m. with a violent artillery bombard- ment of the French lines. Under cover of the barrage, masses of infantry moved forward to the attack as the Nazi air force roared overhead, bombing and strafing. The attack came in “blitzkrieg” fashion less than 24 hours after the fall of Dunkerque, which signalized | the end of the great battle of | Flanders and left the Germans in complete control of Holland, Bel- gium and some 10,000 square miles of Northern France. First reports indicated that the German offensive, apparently aimed directly at Paris, was confined en- tirely to the Somme-Aisne front, which the French have been hasten- ing to fortify. East of Laon, on the eastern flank of the new battle line, and along the Maginot Line no unusual ac- tivity was reported. The Amiens sector, whe one phase of the battle appeared to be centering, is on the middle reaches of the Somme, where the Germans have held a bridgehead on the southern side of the river despite determined French efforts to push them back across the stream. Mechanized Units Thrown In. The Germans were said to be throwing mechanized units into the battle in some sectors. Units of the northern Allied ar- mies which were evacuated through Dunkerque early in the retreat from Flanders were already in position along the Somme-Aisne front before the new German push started. Some British units which did not go into Belgium with the rest of the B. E. F. also were reported the front line of the Somme de- fense. Heavy French forces have been moved into consolidated positions along the entire front from Abbe- ville to the Aisne and Oise junction where the Ailette River Canal con- nects the two rivers. Running from Abbeville along the Somme where at Isast one French bridgehead has been established on the northern bank, the French line follows the river, which itself con- stitutes an obstacle to military oper- ations. The river valley is not only nar- row, but also swampy. The Somme is paralleled clear to Abbeville by a deep canal along the widening mouth. 3 Along the lower Somme the southern slope of the valley forms a rampart by its steep incline, with small woods adaptable to anti-tank 3 — A4 when the German pressure was ex- erted westward toward the Channel instead of southward toward Paris. The consolidated French front ex- | tending from Abbeville to the northwestern tip of the Maginot Line at Montmedy is now France’s first defense against German at- tacks. Aerial Reprisals. The German drive was renewed after a bomb-for-bomb war of aerial reprisals between Germany and France, the most serious being the German bombing of Paris Monday in which, according to new casualty figures announced last night, 254 persons were killed and 652 wounded. Of dead, 195 were said to be civilians—including 20 children. Of the wounded, 554 were civilians, In Paris and the immediate sub- urbs 121 civillans and 46 soldiers were listed as killed. All those in- jured in the Seine department were said to be civilians. The number of German raiders originally reported shot down was boosted from 17 to 25 Ry official count. The Ministry of Information | said French losses in the air over Paris had been seven pursuit planes, while 15 others were wrecked on the ground. German reports that 104 French planes were downed and 300 to 400 destroyed were described as “fantas- tic.” Retaliation Raids Made. The Air Ministry announced that Allied bombers already had struck back in retaliation for the raid on the Paris area and for new Nazi forays on the Rhone Valley and the port of Le Havre. Striking deeply into Germany, French planes were reported to have bombed “with great success” mili- tary objectives in the vicinity of Munich and Frankfort, 220 and 140 miles, respectively, from the fron- | tier. Airdromes, railway lines and mu- nitions factories were showered with bombs in the raids, according to the Air Ministry. Among the important objectives said to have been hit was a large airplane motor factory. All the French planes were said to have returned. At the same time the British Air Force was reported to be bombing the Ruhr Valley, where German war industries are concentrated heavily. Rome Watched Closely. French military leaders kept a close watch on developments in Rome. War measures taken yester- day by the Italian cabinet convinced most observers here that Premier Mussolini’s entry into the war is probable within the next few days. In announcing the abandonment of Dunkerque yesterday, the high command paid tribute to the Allied rearguard whose last ditch fight enabled some 335,000 British and French troops to escape from the Nazi trap in Flanders. It also ac- claimed the work of the British Air Force and Fleet. Allied losses in the Flanders cam- paign were acknowledged to have been heavy, but a War Ministry spokesman said they had been held to “a strict minimum.” No actual figures were given on losses or on the number.of rear- guard trocps which might have been captured by the Germans when they broke into Dunkerque. New air-raid alarms were sound- ed last night " in Northwestern France, but there were no imme- ANOTHER REASON WHY EVERY 7th nicut ocoex | FAMILY BUYS 3 % 39<| AP COFFEE! 1 M. bog 13¢ AT ALL AGP SUPER MARKETS AND A&P FOOD STORES before details are forthcoming. This | has been the high command's pol- | 1cy. That heavy fighting was under- way was taken for granted by all | Germans who saw the Reich’s flags | waving and heard bells tolling in celebration of the Flanders victory, | in memory of the men who fell| | there and as an accompaniment to | the prayers for those who march | on. | Authorized quarters acknowledged | that there had been air attacks at various places in Germany today, | but no details were given. A spokes- | man said there had not been much damage. Referring to a British estimate that Germany's Flanders casualties numbered 600,000, one authorized source said: “I believe we will be able to tell something about those 600,000 dead when the dead begin to. march again.” On the other hand, this source said, British losses. were so great that “even Churchill was unable to keep them secret.” The British Prime Minister acknowledged yes- terday that 30,000 British soldiers were killed, captured or missing in| Flanders. The official German news agency, | DNB, stated in a dispatch from Dunkerque that three French gen- erals were among the 30,000 pris- oners the Germans said they cap- tured with the fall of the Allied| Channel evacuation port yesterdsy,i A number of cannon and tanks| and much other war material were | found also, DNB said, but the amounts could not be estimated. Twenty large ships were found beached, the dispatch continued, and there were wrecks of many smaller vessels, all said to have been | Had 10 Days to Organize. During the German cleanup in Flanders, France had about 10 days to organize her defense line back of the Belgian border fortifications, | along the Somme, Oise, Aisne and Meuse Rivers. It remained to be seen how the Allies, under the new command of Generalissimo Maxime Weygand, could counter the German absorp- tion of the border fortifications upon which his predecessor Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin had relied. The line across Northern France approaches at one point within 70 miles of Paris and at another Reims is within light cannon range. If the Polish campaign can be accepted as the pattern, every air fleld in France will be bombarded by waves of German planes to smash air resistance at the outset of the battle. Scarcely a handful of Polish planes managed to get into the air last September. Observers in the Flanders battle zone, now quiet, said that Poland already had been duplicated there. Constant Bombardment. The organization of France's secondary defense line is said to have been under constant bombard- ment of the German air force, planes striking at every troop assembly area, supply line and new entrenchment. Repeated efforts of the French to regain a better position with tank attacks were said to have been beaten back by Germany's Stukas—dive bombers. ° As a prelude to the offensive launched today German bombers ranged the length of France in attack. Among other places, they struck AS YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO HEAR—WITH THE NEW TELEX HIGH FIDELITY Vacuum Tube - Crystal Hemring Ald @ Model 1820 You tve in & hape pher, ehoeriar warhd with the new TELEX ARING AIDS. Tel—RE. 1060. | 201. 815 17th St. N. Wash. .D. C. ' lease send details on Telex (Vacum ode) —8.58. last night would ultimately be the “‘complete destruction” of the Allies. Spirits were buoyant and morale high as the German Army reso- lutely faced its next assignment. The general expectation was that it would be to deliver at the heart of France another smash such as that in Flanders, described jubilantly by the high command as “one of the greatest victories of world history.” Flanders Battle Summarized. In a special announcement from Fuehrer Hitler's headquarters at the front, to which the entire na- tion was advised to listen by radio, the high command last night pre- sented its summarized version of what has happened since May 10, when the German Army launched its drive through the Lowlands and France. The “strategic goal” of this drive “as given by the Puehrer” was to “force a break-through in the en- emy border fortifications south of Namur and thereby create a pre- condition for destruction of "the French and English Armies north of the Aisne and Somme Rivers,” the high command said. “At the same time” it added. “Holland was to be occupled swiftly and thereby eliminated as a base for a planned English operation by land and in the air on the north flank of the German Army.” “Fulfillment of this gigantic task” was reported yesterday, on the 26th day, the high command said, with greater Germany controlling “the entire east and south coast of the North Sea and Channel.” Removal of Allied troops from the | morale with something more sub- stantial than admiration and ad- | vice. * * * The Allies have not vet asked for bread, but with the exception of the splendid work of the Red Cross and the relief so- cieties, we are busy giving them a tone.” Nazi Plan to Oust | | Catholics in Eire || Talked in London i By.Cate to The Star. LONDON, June 5—The complete- ness with which the German leaders have planned not only the war, but the victory which they anticipate, was disclosed to startled Irishmen one evening about a fortnight ago at a dinner given by a member of the German Legation in Dublin. Probably humorously, one Irish- man asked the German what Ger- many would do with Ireland if it was conquered, and the answer he received apparently woke up some of his complacement companions pretty abruptly. In what appeared to those pres- ent to be all seriousness, the Ger- man gave a rough outline of Ger- man plans which would include forced migration of Catholics to Silesia. In their place German Pro- | testants would colonize Ireland and | develop it as the Germans feel the | Irish have not done. Dead silence is said to have en- veloped the table and the guests ap- parently left with a minimum regard | to formalities. German trap in Flanders, said the | (Copyright, 1040, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) communique, “was not a herofe re- | —— ————~ " __° treat of the English Army as the| English propaganda seeks to pre- | sent it, but one of the greatest | nna ports. Allied vessels “damaged and partly commercial ships and trans- victims of the German air force. | with ¢ nomiesl T " catastrophes in history.” “The great battle of Flanders and Artois is ended,” said the high com- mand. “It will go down in war his- |tory as the greatest destructive | battle of all times. “Even though thousands (of the Allies) saved their bare lives, their | of being estimated, lie in the streets | of Flanders and Northern France.” Figures on Battle. The high command presented these figures on the battle: French, English, Belgian and Dutch prisoners—1,200,000. Enemy “fallen, drowned and dead”—"Cannot now be estimated.” ‘Weapons and equipment of Allies “for about 75 to 80 divisions” were “destroyed or seized.” Allied airplanes shot down—1,841. Allied airplanes “destroyed on the ground”—1,600 to 1,700. Allied ships sunk by bomb attack— five cruisers, seven destroyers, three submarines, nine other war vessels o e LR for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. Al Types of Deafness You'll be happiei—HEARIN eleariy, - enslly, dintinetly o o he new guaranteed, ece-’ [ TELEX 804" inconspicuons Call or write today lest of the mew Ass'n, | Suite 201, 815 17th St. N.W. Washington, D. C. . . . 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