Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1940 — Page 3

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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940

GERMANS HURLED BACK AT LOUVAIN

British Counter-Attack Desperately in Belgium as Millions of Men Fight in Europe Along 200Mile Battlefield.

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fense to adopt a “war of movement” in south Belgium and along the Meuse in France coincided with a new Nazi offensive in the diplomatic field to continue the “war of nerves” by arousing fears that the conflict would spread to other countries. Premier Benito Mussolini, co-operating with Adolf Hitler at every turn, took every opportunity to keep alive the threat that Italy would enter the conflict on Germany's side and there were almost continual threats, rumors and charges that both sides were plotting to attack Switzerland, Greece, Hungary or Jugoslavia. The diplomatic moves and counter-moves, however, were momentarily of minor importance in comparison to the military operations on a 200-mile front from Antwerp through Louvain, along the Dyle River in front of Brussels, to Namur and thence southward to the Maginot Line in France. Allied reports said that furious fighting continued all along the front through Belgium and France and the German official news agency said that the conquest of Holland

now permitted the Nazis to hurl much additional power into Times-NEA Radio Telephoto. the battle for Antwerp, Louvain and Brussels. | A Red Cross nurse passing out food to Belgian refugees as they arrive

at Paris in box cars. French Lines Are Dented sian ate :

oot Tete, Tro sod Sdrions holt ent onc V@W Roosevelt Peace Plea To Mussolini Is Revealed

eastward across the middle of Belgium to the Meuse River at Namur, But at one point near Ligny north of Namur and at! WASHINGTON, May 16 (U. P.).—|democratic nation and subjugate several points south of Namur the Germans claim (and pgministration officials sought to- every free people of Europe.” a . ; : . : | . : : : obs] e council cautioneq lest the French dispatches admit) that their mechanized columns day to maintain diplomatic conver a, Sunt, caiioTey Lim Ue have dented or broken through the Allied lines.

isations between President Roosevelt gemisphere. Nevertheless, it rewere attempting to strike at the rear of the Allied lines, | 'and hysterical” statement be avoided | It was revealed that the President teria in the United States. Dyle River. Germany claimed progress south of Namur | | | ‘only in the frontier zones. Else-

ue i . . ns and Premier Benito Mussolini, hop- iterated the plea ol AF of LL The French dispatches admitted that these colum § EE Et Trea | Pocmteatt Willies Gest hak “wasn . . : . | spreading to Italy and southeastern b A : . g A hi . : ¢ and y merican officials in order which would turn the main Allied flank in Belgium | Europe Dy a i a Te: might make unnecessary a frontal offensive against the nt sent a peace plea to Mussolinif —— . yesterday. It was presented to him | but the extent of Nazi gains there still was obscure. |by Ambassador William Phillips. . | J Ta %5 OYE 3 3 i The message itself was not pub- = In Berlin, Nazis were jubilant as a result of the con-{ i Tose aoe of the quest of Holland and half of Belgium and said that German | messages Mr. Roosevelt and Musso- | & 4 ror 7 i lini have exchanged at intervals | submarines were now off the Dutch and Belgium coasts 10) ot I el |has been no sign of an Italian Ge. (Continued from Page One) where, the civilian population was expected to play a useful part in-

cumbrance.

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Refugees Pour Into Paris

stead of becoming a helpless in- | pierced at two points. They said

LONDON, May 16 (U. P.).—Brit- |

WEDGE DRIVEN ACROSS RIVER, | BERLIN CLAIMS incre

| At Maginot Line. Fight to Finish in Belgium |

With Several Million

Men Is Forecast. The Allied forces appeared to be (Continued from Page One) holding firmly before Antwerp, Te nee AS Ah Hie battle of the Dyle-—or the | eported to have broken through Battle for Belgium"—to a finish petween Namur and Dinant in a within the next few days, the news flanking operation that threatened agency predicted. the Dyle defense line, In northern France, where the| The break-through of the Ger- : : : mans came as an estimated 2,000,000 Germans pierced the Maginot Line Allied and German troops battled near Sedan, the High Command |=." 900 mile line from Antwerp Said that Nazis fought off French |to Sedan with occasional action re-counter-attacks and held their] ted far south as. LONEW foothold in the Maginot defenses, |POT'€d as lar : gwYy, La High oN ily communique | Which was reported occupied by the indicated that the mechanized offen. Uesmans Loney is 40 miles south- | sive had encountered firmer re-|3st © nn, sistance but that severe fighting/ Hint Gamelin May Lose Job was in progress along a 200-mile . ti al front from Antwerp to the Meuse Reynau's cryptic reference to a

RAVE Solo, 3 Jeqan. continued a|Was not explained but was immedi- |

tremendous offensive against the | 2t€lY interpreted here as hinting at : S30 " : a possible change in the French Allied air and ground forces, the 2. communique said, shooting down 46 High Command, now headed by enemy planes in addition to many

|Gen, Maurice Gamelin, generalisdestroyers on the ground and two

simo of Allied armies. shot down by anti-aircraft fire,

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Belgium at Antwerp, down the Dyle River before Brussels to Namur and on to the Meuse.

Reynaud Hints Army Shakeup To Stem German Offensive

possible change of men and methods; :

The change of “methods” may Dutch Capital Occupied

have been forecast by a French war communique which asserted a “war The communique announced the of movement” occupation of the Dutch capital at armored columns to smash at the, The Hague and of Amsterdam by sides and to the rear of the heavy German troops. | German armored corps. Authorized sources said that if the | Wo Senn EO a “« | a Germans won the “Battle of Bel vo be regarded as the most serious gium” it would mark the beginning threat of the day. It was reported to ct the end for the Allies for four have been accomplished when heavy reasons: {German tanks succeeded in forcing | 1. By breaking Allied resistance the Meuse River at three points, in Belgium and seizing air and submarine bases on the Belgian coast, | the Germans could bomb Great| They were reportedly followed by Britain easily and send out sub- light, mechanized units and lowmarines to destroy the flow of sup-| flying airplanes making a quick plies from Britain to France, thus | effort to widen the breech and atdriving a wedge between the Allies; lack the rear positions of the Allied 2. The start of Allied troops in lines extending along the River retreat through French territory | Dyle through Louvain—also subject “where they have no fortified lines to heavy attack—to Antwerp. to fall back upon” would open the| (Paris dispatches reporting the way for a German march on Paris; German break-through were sub3. The annihilation of large num- | ject to heavy French censorship.) bers of Allied troops in the “Battle| Louvain was described as the vorof Belgium” would make further tex of a hurricane battle that raged resistance unlikely. | from Sedan to the bastion of Ant4. A German victory would induce werp, where the Allied left flank Italy it was time to get into the war is anchored. on Germany's side. French advices asserted that the . . Germans were striving to repeat Paris Capture Is Secondary |,o technique of their Polish camThe military quarters said the | paign by hurling armored Solumns " i i through the Allied defense lines for Prench Maginot Line now had been lightning blows against rearward | communications. the fighting was centered around | These efforts, it was said, are Namur, Belgium, on the Meuse, 65 concentrated at the lines defending | mil th of Sedan. and around Louvain, again battered and bombed miles nor : | 26 years after it was devastated in Sedan, where the two breaks al-|{, German sweep through Belgium legedly were made. in 1914. They said the Germans were| The Louvain lines are held by the hurling troops through these breaks| British as are the bulk of the posiwhose aim was to strike out north- tions from Louvain north to Antwestward on a parallel with the werp. They are aided by Belgian French-Belgian border, toward the | troops and by some remnants of the French Channel ports of Dunker- Dutch Army which managed to que and Calais. {reach the Allied lines,

| Refugees Pour West

Paris Censors Dispatches

move “against England.” v y edie rar’ y . sire to break off the exchanges. Germany predicted that the war's outcome may be de te re Sate Doperunont nor termined in seven davs on the battlefields of Belgium and ie white House would discuss the kV ere ss Tres TOW i High Command message but White House Secrenorthern France. The view of the Allied Hig einer T° arly raid tat was grave. whatever had occurred during the 1 er All Yr int mav Be last 2¢ hours represented merely a Indications were that the Allied danger poin ! Dn gl eg ve shifting momentarily from Sedan to the adjacent Meuse oqpy in the war. ih lish press dispatches told of hasty line from Namur to Mezieres. ik ew plea Juss, b Wal \war preparations in Switzerland to- : ihary. meet f Hi 'day, of German troops massed on A S to Open traordinary meeting of High State day, French Troops Slash In p | Department officials which lasted the Swiss frontier and of the deIndications are that the French troops are no longer juni eatly a OE ih 3] pasture of the Allied fleet from Al- > . . . . Ro | Roos 1 Vas : “ " waiting in their powerful fortification lines to meet the waves |. "|." {e White House announced | Sandia, Epi, JO “maneuvers in of German tanks, armored cars and dive-bombing planes. | ag pep Te Pein Sate & mew Deak Instead, they are slashing up in the open to meet the German “ghjle praying for confinement of jas to he jminjerice of i Halen . >. . . . , ! # . ! ¥ i Jar on an’s c u tv . he sides in nutcracker the war to the countries now in- entry info ihe wa io head-on po driving in from the volved, State Department officials side. ced. tnat tie British anking movements. | proceeded with plans to evacuate all| It was asser at the British, Vig ; French counter-attacks apparently have pre-| Americans remaining in Europe. [French and German legations at 1gorous : : There were 19561 American Berne were burning their official pavented the Germans from greatly extending their foothold! jtizens in Italy Jan. 1, 1940. On pers and that civilians were evacu- : | tificat: c Jan. 1, Great Britain and northern| ating Berne, Basle and Zurich. in the Maginot fortifications on the west bank of the Meuse, Ireland had 7514 Americans; France,| There were unconfirmed rumors opposite Sedan. But the Germans still have their foothold 5927: Germany, 5224! Greece. 26; that Germany was pressing Switzer : N - 3 iti i Norway, 1067; Sweden, 1752; the|land to accept an Italian protectorand are fighting hard to extend it. The British described [or ay, 1000 art Belgitn MT Ign. the Sedan situation as “serious but not ¢éritical. Switzerland had only a few hundred. BERLIN Ns Te (0, 25d : rat » (U. P.).—Ado i . t the German = i nd The Allied air force battered furiously at t 8) ROME, May 16 (U. P).—Reaction {pin newspaper Voelkischer rear lines in an effort to hamper and halt the moving up o in authoritative sources today in- | Beobachter turned ite attack ia a supplies and reinforcements. The greatest air raids of the dicated that President Roosevelt's|,.. si.ection today, at Jugoslavia, y SA jor pT ‘ted peace message to Premier the Balk trv borderi ar were reported to have been carried out last night, par- TP (the Balkan country bordering on war were reporte pia] BENIto Mussolini would “have litffe both Germany and Ttaly. ticularly in the important Essen-Dortmund-Bodum industrial jr go reat.” | The charge against Jugoslavia triangle : | oammeniing on reports that the was the same made against Czecho- : l . sie we United States’ President urged Mus- slovakia and Poland before GerOld names reappeared in communiques and history Ye- | solini to keep Ttaly out of the many invaded them — abuse of peated many episodes on the Belgian front. There was Sore | Burapsan Congies, hi was fecalied ‘German minorities, i ) y . that the Italian Government ha —— indication that the battle for Brussels might be fought ago ‘decided it would not take BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 16 (U. ’ Napoleonic battleground of Waterloo. |any peace initiative and that since P.).—Fear increased in this capital around the Nap leon "ks 2 Thev h q the Mussolini had been more con- | today that more European countries The Swiss were mobilized to the last man, rey had yinced than ever that there was ‘no might soon be plunged into the war. 600.000 men in arms and were prepared for anything—or change favoring peace. The fear, according to diplomatic y . v : ows) According to these sources, the ! sources, was based on: as well prepared as their resources would permit. Every | aiian Premier did his utmost Jast |

| | 1. Reports from Rome that a sort of rumor circulated. One was that Germany had massed | September to prevent the war, but [peace message from President

- Becki OOK oe : - [today he apparently feels that the | Roosevelt to Premier Benito Musso- = A . OO : i ' 15 to 25 divisions or 225,000 to 375,000 men in the Black Ft ej LC ust be left-to mili- lini was expected to have “little if

Forest. tary decisions or at least to a mili- any result.”

On the basis of this analysis, ge e of Paris was a secondary Shphure The Paris Soir reported that a was raging between

aim to the capture of the Channel| ports, from where Britain could be great battle attacked. Nominally Germans would | Antwerp and Namur and that Brusbe expected to strike straight at|sels was the immediate German obParis through any breaks in the | jective. Maginot Line at Sedan, since Paris British alr bombing operations lies 130 miles southwest of that were directed at breaking the force point, on a straight line with the of the German attack in this area. direction from which the assault on; A great stream of refugees was {Sedan was launched. (pouring west from the war areas | . and Paris authorities were improvClaim 1370 Enemy Planes {ing emergency measures to provide By driving northwest to the for them. Thousands have reached miles from Sedan, the Paris and preparations are being made to distribute them through country villages,

| {Channel, 180 'G&mans would have a wedge be- | tween Allied troops in Belgium and [those in France. Those in Belgium, presumably, would be caught in the| Concern was felt here for Switzer{southward German sweep through land. The Paris Soir reported Gerthe Low Countries and would have man troops maneuvering near the to fight their way back into Franec Swiss frontier at Lake Constance. with Germans at their heels. | Rail traffic through Basle has pracThe High Command communique tically ceased and the International said that German troops at the Labor Bureau transferred its recnorth Norwegian port of Narvik lords and offices to France, had repulsed Allied attacks and had| A bus load of Belgians accused of consolidated positions which they espionage arrived at Lille. hold north of Narvik town. The radio agency reported that In five days, from May 10 to 14,/gix air alarms were sounded in the the communique said, 1370 enemy jjjje region last night and two in airplanes have been destroyed In|the Le Havre area. fighting in the Low Countries and Recognizing the tremendous powFrance. Germany, it added, 10st)... o,4 the gathering momentum of

Concern for Switzerland

Another was that the Germans demanded that the coun- ary settlement. 5. The sein of SR States Je-| try be placed under an Italian protectorate. WASHINGTON, May 16 (U. P.).— | toons 8

: The Executive Council of the Amer- | C5 pine, Balkans at once. London expected an Italian move shortly. President = ‘foderation of Labor threw its >. Allied reports that Germany| Py . ibilit ; | might attack Switzerland (and an | Roosevelt indicated American concern over such a possibility |support behind the new Hetense Pro-| unconfirmed rumor in London that] by sending a post-midnight communication to Premier Beni- Sh ee. of eas of Gone | Germany was pressing Switzerland | to Mussolini—an appeal to keep the peace. Rome dismissed many and Russia is to seize every ©, 87CePt a see). the President's message with a curt suggestion that it | Slovakian-Hungarian border and

would have “little, if any, result.” | {Lhe massing of Uosps on hat and.

OFFICIAL WEATHER other frontiers.

The Allied Mediterranean fleet is steaming that inland | 5. Diplomatic maneuverings|

cea. its whereabouts a military secret and its purpose allegedly | U5. Wenthir Huron throughout the Balkans. | . . " | INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Cloudy ana| 6. British fleet movements in the the carrying out of “maneuvers.

| continued cool becoming fair tonight, tel- Mediterranean. | . {lowed by fair and somewhat warmer to-, Unconfirmed reports circulated | reervew. aL - ____|loday that Jugoslavia and Russia Sunrise... 4:29 | Sunset {had signed or were about to sign a| TEMPERATURE I military alliance. |

IN INDIANAPOLIS [== gm Sion troriie:

18 2g! Tndiana Stamp Club, Hotel Antlers, 8| 6:30 a. wm. . 29.91

Reserve Officers’ | trade, noon.

»._m. | Precipitation 24 hrs endin Kappa Sigma, Canary Cottage. noon. Ss. ¢ ; 2% * mann a Tema. an | Total precipitation 5, 1940— | aay. ; | May hi t alent 10 Qemoptiian Forum, Hotel Washes | 5 Accidents . 7:4 \ m. Indiana Society of Mental Hygiene, Clay0 Arrests 26 pool Hotel all day.

WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines | tried tions paid

: i Tons of

| Tndiana—Fair in extreme south, becom- | |ing fair in north and central portions to-| Le: 0 night: tomorrow fair and somewhat | BIRTHS | Warmer. | Girls Minois—Fair and continued cool. scat-| : ; : : _ | tered light frost in lowlands in extreme] Nicholas. Loretta Augustin, at Methodist. northwest and extreme north-central por-| William. Lorraine Holland. at Methodist. | tions tonight; tomorrow fair and someHarry, al Jacobs. at City. what warmer.

Deficiency since J

LONDON, May 18 Royal Air Force planes attacked

Violations.

In Greatest R. A. F. Attack of War

(U. P.) —lcaused. This was the heaviest attack

- planes yesterday as compared to the German drive, the Allied High The Allied air forces were alleged | COmmand had decided instead of by the High Command to have | 2Waiting the ‘Germans in their rs “without plan” towns of | strongest fortified areas to go out west Germany, killing or wounding and meet them, in an attempt to civilians slow the drive—believing that once : slowed it would fail. As a result Threaten Retaliation French troops poured through the “Military objects were neither at- | defense line to chailenge the Gertacked nor struck,” the communique mans in the open. said. The Nazis have threatened Troops Engage in Wild Melee te oT mgs |_ A French miliary spokesman Off the Belgian and Dutch coast, the communique said, two Allied destroyers and three merchantmen |

: -| Nr -— ht re eran | thusting German mechanized units. Two destroyers and four mer-| Brussels. admitting like Paris that chantmen also were badly damaged, the Germans had forced their way it added, while one tanker and one across the Meuse at new points, asarmed merchantman were tor- serted that French infantry had pedoed. {held German infantrymen and pre-

Dropped East of Rhine

| Mezieres front were engaged in a wild melee, with Allied forces, spread in great depth, resisting the

to relieve men for the “parachut-ist-shooting” corps. The War Of-

bn Royal Air Force yet made by the Roy fice said that orders to the first

Gen. Maurice Gamelin, Allied commander in chief. Premier Reynaud hints he may be replaced.

AMERICANS JAM PORTS IN ITALY

‘Seek Passage Home After

Warning; All Ship Space Sold.

ROME, May 16 (U. P.).—Thoue sands of Americans fearing Italy's imminent entry into the war rushed to seaport towns today seeking im= mediate passage to the United States. The Americans, about 20,000 resie dent in Italy, were advised by United States Consular authorities

{to return home as quickly as possi ‘ble unless they had urgent reasons

to remain.

Hundreds were en route to Naples and Genoa to board the United States liner Washington, scheduled to sail this week-end. All available space aboard the Washington has been reserved. Cots were set up in the emptied swimming pool, in salons and cor|ridors. Even deck space has been sold out. All cabin space on Amer~ ican ships has been booked three weeks in advance. There was no official indication.

vented them from following up the mechanized units.

The Allied defensive positions, the

positions. The Germans seemed trying not only to widen the footholds they had gained on the Allied side of the Meuse above Sedan but to extend their operations westward. This would mean a threat to the French

however, of Italy's war intentions, {The sailing of the Italian liner | Conte di Savoia for New York was regarded by most observers as a (sign that Italy would not be drawn

had been started— military informant asserted, elimi= into the war in the immediate apparently an attempt by Allied nated any fear concerning rear future.

Yesterday's demonstrations

by (students against the Allies ended |suddenly, possibly because of the rainy weather and because of greater police reinforcements {around various British and French institutions and establishments, {The Jugoslav Legation also was

|said that the troops on the Namur-|

troops who, farther north, were guarded, but there were no demon fighting stubborn rear guard actions strations despite rumors they would between Namur and Givet. Itake place.

STRAUSS SAYS:

GENTLEMEN!

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Elmer, Theodosia Davis, at City. Bors Raloh, Mary Hittle, at Methodist

st. Wilbur. Gladys Walker, at Methodist. Samuel, Geraldine Bates, at City.

DEATHS

Conrad B. Kohrman, 68. at 520 E. Vermont, chronic myocarditis. Charles 8. Selleck, 86. at 82 N. Belle

s —————— oa ! 0 t 6 W. South, ronarv sclerosis. MEETINGS TODAY Gus George Lehman, 62, at City, acute

i leukemia Jewish Community Center Association, . Kirshbaum Center, Joght, : araeary A. Rost, 75, at Indianapolis Real state Board, Hill- . ntry Club. Or Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noon. Sigma Chi, Board of Trade, moon. Caravam Club, Murat Temple, noon, 0il Clab, Severin Hotel, no Construction League of tel Lincoln. noon. i He tianaoohs Camera Club, 110 E. Ninth 8 p.m. ta Theta Pi. Canarv Cottage. noon. mbda Chi Alpha Alumni Association,

4447 College.

cerebral hemorrhage. James . Hoover, 94 at Veterans, arteriosclerosis. Charles G. Thornburg, 69. at Methodist,

uremi at 1702 E. rd

un, on. . Minnie Titus, 71, Indianapolis, nenhritis. | Robert Robertson, 76, at 1102 N. Beville. pulmonary edema ; at 411 W. North.

saac Lemont, 81. arteriosclerosis. La sie Majors. 73. at 2022 Cornell, acute Ruset Cafeteria, noon. interstitial nephritis, dianapolis Motor Transpertation Club, Goldie Ingram, 48. at 1624 Boulevard Ine., Fox’ Ste | Place, apoplexy. Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association, Indiana State Fair Grounds, all day. Indians Bankers’ Association, Claypool Rotel, all day.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

xchange Club, Hotel Severin, noon. timist Club, Columbia Club, noon.

ak House, noon.

FIRE ALARMS

Wednesday 11:18 a. m.—%720 Russell. defective flue, Thursday 2:17 a. m, 2408 English, $25,

: overheated stove, |

Elmer E. Gauble, 78, at 1234 S. Belmont, B

Lower Michigan—Occasional light rain, cooler in extreme northeast portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy rising temperature in west and central portions. Ohie—Mostly cloudy and continued cool, occasional light rain in north portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, slightly warmer in south and central portions, preceded by light showers in extreme north portion, Kentucky—Fair and continued cool tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Cl 29.93 54

Amarillo, Tex. Jismarck, N. D.

oston .... Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Lh ret ve Dodge City, Kas. ..... Helena, Mont.

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German road and railroad communications east of the Rhine today in their biggest offensive in the 81, months of the war, Fires were started and big explosions were caused by the “many tions” of bombs which the British planes loosed in trying to disorganize the communications by which Germany is feeding material to its hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the Franco-Belgian front. The biggest British air attack of the war was announced in a short Air Ministry communique: “The Royal Air Force last night carried out east of the Rhine a big offensive against the enemy’s road and rail communications which are supporting its forces in their invasion of the Low Countries and Luxembourg. The attacks lasted] throughout the night. Many tons of bombs were released. “Road and rail communications were attacked at many points. Fires broke out and heavy explosions were ne,

during the war.” It was indicated that the British planes struck especially at the vital Essen-Dortmund-Bochum industrial area. containing the Krupp munitions works and the Hermann Goering steel works. Nothing more was needed to impress upon Britons the stage which the war had reached than the fact that gun fire, in Flanders had starteq rattling doors and windows of homes in the Deal area of the| east coast, and that the distant guns could be heard as they had been during the World War. The collapse of Holland, the German threat to Brussels and the Channel ports and the German attempt to break the Maginot Line at Sedan already had caused a rush of volunteers for the new “parachutist-shcoter” corps intended to defend the interior against a German parachutist invasion. Women began to volunteer for farm work in increasing numbers

volunteers to report for drilling, on Commons and in city parks, would be issuéd within a very few days. Volunteers will wear khakidenim overalls with overseas caps. "In Scotland alone 25,000 volunteered for anti-parachutist service. Included was Britain's only private army—the 250 kilt-uniformed gamekeepers, stalkers and farmers on the great Blair Castle estate of the Duke of Atholl. A more severe food rationing program has been inaugurated, and Dutch and Belgian refugees were arriving as Belgian refugees had in 1914. All refugees were triple-checked to make sure that no “Trojan Horse” elements sifted in among them. The joint bread price committee today recommended to the Government an increase, effective Monday, in the price of bread. A one-

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