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 Wsr 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 bqfore 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 afjer 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 trio which kept
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
a street running east and west.
Several bombs dropped on build
ings at this intersection, blowing
them to smithereens. The explosion
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
as they crawled out of the tanks.
Whoever remained in tanks and
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 Messerschmltts—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
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 III
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
•specially welcome finds for the
Germans. Often we would en
counter 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
to 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
mass meeting here next Wednesday.
I
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 135-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.
—A. P. Wirephoto Map.
Outcome of War
May Hinge on Second
Phase of Blitzkrieg
Hitler Appears Headed
For Quick Victory or
Swift Defeat
By DEWITT MACKENZIE.
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer.
The outcome of the war likely
hinges on this second phase of
Hitler's ‘blitzkrieg.’' which was
launcned 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
lished 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 tney 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
some of the fiercest fighting in the
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 w-hich had been taken
during the last few days.
These advantages 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.
Delay in Preparing'
G. 0. P. Foreign Policy
Plank Is Proposed
Senate Republicans
Suggest Watching
European Situation
By the Associated Press.
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 over 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.”
If 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.
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Paris
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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.
Germany used about 80 divisions,
10 of them armored and 5 motorized,
a spokesman said. The armored
divisions were estimated to have
lost from one-third to one-half their
strength.
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!
raging with increasing violence in '
the stifling heat, smoke and dust
of the fields some 70 miles north ,
of the French capital.
Simultaneous with the assault I
German bombers raided an area in
central France, not identified by j
name. French fighters and anti
aircraft struck back.
In Paris, before the Army Com
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies, i
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, whei# 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 lsast 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.
Along the lower Somme the
southern slope of the valley forms a
rampart by its steep incline, with
small woods adaDtable to anti-tank
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 recon
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 Oise 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.
Soissons is 58 miles northeast of
Paris, Laon 75. Laon had been the
southernmost point of the German
thrust in this region last month,
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 i
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 vyere civilians
In Paris and the immediate sub
urbs 121 civilians 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 fey 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 show'ered 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 troops 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
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diate reports of additional bomb
ings.
The French 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
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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
Fuehrer 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.
Spokesmen Reserved.
Authorized spokesmen were re
served about the new offensive. They
intimated it might be several days
before details are forthcoming. This
has been the high command's pol
icy.
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 inarch
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 yesterday.
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
victims of the German air force.
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 well
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
field 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
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
that there are no fortification lines
to overcome in this direction, and |
that Paris is lying "practically ex- j
posed” before the German troops.
High German circles, jubilant (
over the German victory in the1
great battle of Flanders, formally j
ended only yesterday, confidently
predicted that the new attack was I
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 1
and the second a message to the
German people.
In triumphant phrases Hitler told
the German people of conclusion of j
the battle of Flanders and stated: i
“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
Aisne-Somme sector from trench
lines.
The new drive became the next
step in what the army high com
mand said in a long statement late
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 bv
the high command as "one of the
greatest victories of world history.”
Flanders Battle Summarized.
In a special announcement from j
Fuehrer Hitler's headquarters at'
the front, to which the entire na- i
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 Fuehrer” 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 occupied 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
German trap in Flanders, said the
communique, "was not a heroic re
treat of the English Army as the
English propaganda seeks to pre
sent it, but one of the greatest
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
materials and equipment, incaoable
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
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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
a 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 through 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
could help them win in their strug
gle against Germany.”
‘"Hie need is immediate,” she said
at another point, “it is a matter
of days. Let us strengthen their
morale with something more sub
stantial than admiration and ad
vice. • • » The Allies have not
yet 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
stone.”
Nazi Plan to Oust
Catholics in Eire
Talked in London
By.Cat« 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.
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and 66 commercial ships and trans
ports.
Allied vessels “damaged and partly
destroyed" by bombs—10 cruisers. 24
destroyers. 3 torpedo boats, 22 other
war vessels and 117 commercial ships
and transports.
Allied ships sunk by the German
"light sea forces"—six destroyers,
two submarines, one transport, one
auxiliary cruiser and “one other
warship."
Germans killed from May 10 to
June 4—10.252 officers, non-commis
sioned officers and soldiers.
Germans missing—8.643.
Germans wounded—42,523 officers
and men.
German airplanes lost—432.
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