Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1940 — Page 3

© TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940

- CHANNEL REACHED, GERMANY CLAIMS

Reports 1,000,000 Allied Troops in Belgium Face Disaster After Lightning Drive to Within Few Miles of Britain. (Continued from Page One)

Abbeville itself is 12 miles from the Channel coast, but if the Germans can hold it the break through is complete. “Channel Reached!” screamed the headlines of every Berlin newspaper. “Allied armies cut off.” And the conservative Hamburger Frem Den Blatt forecast that the German armies, already attacking the retiring British and Belgians gast of Ghent, would soon strikd a most powerful blow at the Allied forces isolated in Flanders. After that, it was indicated, the German thrust against England—for which the British Government prepared with great speed—will be possible. : Meanwhile, German armies took Laon and Rethel to surge closer to Paris and the German air force again ham-| mered with tremendous force at the British and French fleets, reporting the bombing of five warships and 17 transports or merchant vessels. : In Paris, the French contended that furious fighting still was in progress along broken and jig-saw fronts in Northern France and that their lines had given ground only at great cost to the Nazis, but Reynaud admitted to the Senate that Amiens and Arras had been taken. German parachute troops were being used extensively fn an attempt to strengthen and consolidate the lines pushed forward in lightning fashion into northern France and it was reported that the Allies might speed their Near Eastern Army to France to boister their defenses. The German statement that the Channel had been reached climaxed 11 days of warfare through the Low Countries and in northern France and made the Allied position seem as dangerous—if not more dangerous—than at any time during the World War. The Germans still are not as far advanced in French territory as they were at the high mark of the World War, when they surged to the suburbs of Paris. But they have achieved the capture of a Channel port, which they failed to do throughout the World War, and they have moved with far greater speed. Furthermore, from Amiens, the Germans are in a position to strike southward toward Paris at any time they can consolidate their positions in the north. And if they succeed in bringing together their vast pincers operations against the Allied armies in Flanders the entire Channel coast will be in their hands—with England only a few minutes away by airplane.

‘Foe Bottled Up’ = Berlin

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force “which played an outstanding role,” captured the French town of Rethel, on the Aisne River some 70

miles from Paris. The Germans previously had claimed capture of Laon, about 60 miles from Paris, but gid not appear to be pushing their drive toward the French capital at the moment. 3. German forces pushing through Belgium in pursuit of the retiring British Army engaged in battle with the enemy east of Ghent and further southward on the Scheldt River. The High Command communique

repulsed, the High Command said, and many French tanks were destroyed, especially in the area of Rethel. Furthermore, the High Command reported. the air force continued to pound with tremendous force at the British and French naval units, damaging four British warships off Norway, one French destroyer off the French coast, and 17 Allied transport or merchant ships. A British battleship of the 29,150ton Resolution class and a heavy British cruiser were among those bombed and severely damaged off

was the most sensational issued in|the Norwegian port of Narvik, where

11 days of blitzkrieg

northern France, if confirmed, it

seemed to mean that all resistance]

the! German infantry already had been

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French defense lines and that the |

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the Germans relieved pressure on their besieged garrison, the High Command said. The Germans said that sufficient

brought up to insure in full the

REYNAUD BITTER OVER MISTAKES, RETAINS HOPES

‘Allies Will Conquer Even if It Takes Miracle,” He Informs Senate. (Continued from Page One) from here that German “Big Berthas” shelled Paris in 1918. Referring to the “total disorganization” of the French armies defending the Meuse in the Sedan sector, Reynaud said: “You now understand the disaster. . . . This is how the hinge of the French front was broken . . . “Yet, if tomorrow, someone came to me saying ‘a miracle is needed to save France’ I would believe that a miracle would come because I believe in France. The two great peoples of two great empires . cannot be beaten. They will conquer.” Hints of Foreign Help Reynaud also said that people “abroad and far away” are beginning “to understand that it is a guestion of themselves and their own future which is concerned. Let us hope they do not understand too late.” He made no specific reference to the possibility of American or other foreign aid. Reynaud said that Gen. Maxime Weygand, Allied generalissimo, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and himself were in entire agreement on a war plan. “In starting our effort for public salvation we .will not stand for any weakening,” he said. “The death penalty is too meager for traitors. Let us rise to the same height as the misfortune of the country.” Unity Is Claimed Reynaud said that France and Britain were working together closely. “The two great peoples of two great empires are closely united,” he said. “They cannot be beaten. They will conquer. “The truth may save us. trust in our Abmy leaders and soldiers.” Meanwhile, Germany put her parachute troops into action for the first time in the battle of the Somme as her tanks drove forward toward the English Channel under the protection of dive bombing planes. Motorcycle raiders, rushed to the front, co-operated by seeking to race ahead of the tan | the parachutists to occupy strategic points and rail centers. Extreme intensification of German air action and the appearance of parachute troops led experts here to believe that the great battle on the Western Front was working ,up to a supreme German assault, the climactic attempt to consolidate positions on the English Channel before the British-French-Belgian forces (three words censored) could hit their right flank in full force. : The German advance continues in a northwesterly direction, the Army spokesman said, with fighting in the Cambrai-Somme River area and particularly in the Peronne re|gion northwest of St. Quentin. Planes Swarm Over Region Airplane activity reached yesterdav what a military source de|scribed as an extraordinary pitch. Swarms of German planes, it was |said, bombed railroad stations, rail|roads, air fields and Channel ports {but sustained considerable losses. French and British air forces were as active. French planes bombed German mechanized, motorized and troop columns, inflicting heavy losses, it was said, and wrecking some columns. British planes almost continually bombed German rear lines and Rhineland roads and military objectives in Germany.

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Tanks Dart to Attack, Then Race Home for More Supplies.

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back, to protect their heads which bang against the steel tank walls as the tanks lumber across ditches. As the tank goes into battle its apertures are shut and clamped tight, leaving only peep holes for the driver and gunner to look through. After a few hours in the din and heat of a tank the men are worn out. Yet the men in this battle, some of them, have been fighting for days from sunrise to sundown. Frequently the crews are stunned when a direct hit from some close range gun rings their tank like a (bell. Their danger is that a ma|chine gun or anti-tank shell will pierce the sides. In that case, they usually die, because gas fumes are | ignited. Cambrai Is Typical

Cambrai is typical of hundreds of | towns and villages in the fighting zone, after a 20-year respite from | the World War, and of painful re- | building. In the World War Cambrai was | destroyed. When the blitzkrieg [started this time, an air raid shel-

ter trench was dug in a tiny tri- | angular park. i It was dug through five feet of broken plaster and rubble At that {depih the diggers uncovered the |sidewalk and paved street of the {city of Cambrai of 1914, as effec- | tively if not as deeply as one of an ancient civilization which might Ibe uncovered in the Near East. I went as far as I could toward the approaching German tank columns. I was not permitted to go to the front. Returning Allied aviators reported that German tank and armored car columns were filling every road through the Ardennes Forest and down the Meuse and Sambre Rivers valleys. J

Flow Around Obstacles

Allied bombing planes dived one after another, bombing roads and bridges to halt the tanks. But each ‘time a bomb tore a great funnel

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{shaped hole in a road, wiping out four or five tanks, the others would simply detour around the obstacle. Ahead and alongside the tanks ride German motorcycle troops, |scouts and traffic policemen combined. When the planes bomb a road, the motorcylists find detours, and lead the tanks to ‘them. The main German army rides in trucks 20 to 40 miles behind the tanks, and the Allied armies for the main have retreated in good order before the tanks, leaving always an interval of a few miles. But now the Allies are fighting back, striking into the German flanks particularly. The Germans, determined to keep on, pierce deeper —and the Allies say more dangerously to themselves—in the Picardy plains, the motorcycle troops and other motorized cavalry sometimes racing ahead of the tanks.

Five Divisions for One Pill Box

The Germans throw as many as five divisions, 75,000 men, into action to take one single French pill box. They marched in through a murderous fire from pill boxes over an entire sector and occupied the pill box which contained one machine gun and the seven dead men of its crew. Against the tanks only artillery and opposing tanks are useful now. The French, according to reports,

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British expeditionary force was in| rear communications of the Gergreatest danger of destruction. {mans who had reached the coast. The British, Belgians and many| The German claims to having French troops, according to the reached Abbeville had ominous imcommunique, were trapped where port for the Allies who, it was said they could be supplied only across | here, were speculating on possibility the water from Britain and could|of a German attempt to invade

British - French - Belgian forces have taken an enormous toll from continued to withdraw normally the Germans. Their 15-millimetre from the Belgian front, a military guns mow down tank after tank spokesman said. and always there are more tanks to Twenty-five hundred German come. tanks were now engaged in the val-| The job of the Allied tanks and

be removed only in the same way unless they can rally to break through the German lines. The High enemy continued to attempt to escape from a long pocket formed by the German troops south of Valencinnes, but that all of these at-

tempts were smashed. At the same the! to the English crown. Advancing

| from Pevensey he met the armies | of King Harold on the road to Lon|don at Hastings on Oct. 14 and

time, the communique said, Germans moving forward on the southwest part of the “bulge” front occupied Laon and stormed over Chemin Des Dames to the canal that connects the Aisne and Oise Rivers. All French counter-attacks were

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 19 19 $117 5 5 29

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MEETINGS TODAY

Rotary Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Y's Men's Club, Y. M. C. A., noon. Gyro Club, ink-Arms Hotel, noon. Mercator Club, Hotel Lincoln, noon. Universal Club, Columbia Club, noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of Trade. noon. Knights of Columbus, K. of C. clubhouse, noon. Lutheran Service Club, Canary Cottage,

noon. Fine Paper Credit Group, Wm. H. Block Co.. noon. Indiana State Dental Association, Clay-

pool Hotel. Indiana Republican Editorial Associa-

tion, Coiumbia Club, noon. P! Gamma Delta, Canary Cottage,

noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, Y. M. C. A,

® m. ios Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Young Men's scussion Club, Y. M. C. .. 6 p. m. Apartment Owners’ Association, Claypool Hotel, noon. Purdue Alumni Association, Hotel Severn

n, noon. Twelfth District, American Legion, Board of Trade, noon. Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade,

Sigma noon Theta Tau, Seville Tavern, noon. Ciub of

Delta Co aaperative Indianapolis,

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Great Britain. It was in Hastings, across the Channel, where in 1066, William of

Command said that the Normandy began the conquest of

England. He was the last conqueror of England. Duke William on Sept. 28, 1066, landed at Pevensey, determined to assert by force of arms his right

after terrific fighting Harold was mortally wounded and the English were beaten back, paving the way for the Norman conquest.

Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary Cottage, noon

40-Plus Club, Indianapolis Chamber of

Commerce, 7:30 p. m. Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, noon. Dental Association, Claypool Hotel. all dav. Indiana State Association of Dental As-

sistants, Claypool Hotel, all day

BIRTHS

Girls Melvin. Mary Osborne. at St. Vincent's. James. Leota Haines, at St. Francis. Robert, Julia Hartsock, at 1036 Kealing. Clarence, Helen Yelton, at 2030 E. New

York. Wilbur, Christine Mevers, at 1801 Olive. Boys

Raymond, Nell Reasoner, at Coleman. Forrest. Dortha Simmerman, at St. Vin-

cent’s. John. Emilv Blanchard. at St. Vincent's. Gerlad, Mary Carrier. at St. Vincent's. Leo, Ruth Alhand., at St. Vincent's. Herbert. Louise McAninch, at Methodist. . Dorothy Moneyhun. at Methodist. Leo. Mary Linnaman. at St. Francis. Juanita Ramsey, at 20 Brooksid

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Rav. Theodore. Mabel Williams, at 2127 N.

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DEATHS George Dold.

66. at City, thrombosis. George Grevak, 54, at 1902 N. Illinois. rl E. Troutwine,

h Ea : 43. ypertension. Charlotte Ellis, 31, at Methodist, streptococcic meningitis.

coronary

carcinoma. at Veterans’,

Mary Lou Warren, 10. at 230 N. Belle Vieu Place. sarcoma. : © Walter Smith, 39. at 227 N. Noble, pulomnary tuberculosis. Hilda Wemmer, 44, at Methodist, carcinoma. Addie Snider, 53, at Methodist, ulcerative colitis. Clara M. Galbraith, 64, at 4132 Bowman. hypertension. Martha Elliott, 22, at Coleman, intracranial hemorrhage. Isabelle Krueger. 62, at Methodist, cerebrai apoplexy. Clara Maloney. 67. at 41 S. Hawthorne Lane. cerebral hemorrhage. Roy. 40. at 412 N. Alabama, carcinoma, George B. Kenney, 61. at 1160 Udell, broncho-pneumonia. Harrv Epply. 84. at 2429 N. Delaware, chronic mvocarditis. Annie E. Leahy. 80, at 432 N. Forest. mitral stenosis. Benjamin Haugh. 67. at Methodist. gastric. hemorrhage. David Jackson. 7 months, at 550 N. Sen-

onia. . 72, at 1203 Brookside,

on. a M. Dunn. 52, at 837 N. New Jersey. chronic myocarditis.

ley of the Somme on the drive toward the Channel, attacking with undiminished fury. Constant reinforcements kept the divisions at full strength despite what French reports described as terrible losses.

‘ALL CLEAR’ SOUNDS IN PARIS PARIS, May 21 (U. P.)—The all clear signal sounded in the Paris area late today after defending anti-aircraft guns had gone into action. Most of the-anti-aircraft fire was heard at a distance and there were no immediate reports of any aerial bombardment.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau J

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Partly cloudy with local showers tonight and tomorrow morning; cooler tomorrow.

Sunrise ...... 4:21 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE ~—May 21, 1939—

Y 8 Me... T ..12.99 2.72

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin x n. 1..

Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1

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MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Showers, cooler in extreme west portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, showers in southeast and extreme south portions; cooler in east and south portions. . IMinois—Cloudy and cooler, showers in south and east Suns tonight; tomorrow generally fair except showers and cooler along the Ohio ver. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy, showers tonight and In east portion tomorrow, cooler in west tonight and in southeast portion tomorrow. Ohio—Scattered showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. Kentucky—Increasing cloudiness with scattered showers tomorrow and in west portion tonight; warmer in east portion tonight, cooler tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

Bez, Temp. 97 S55 30.07 30.17 29.92 30.01 30.00 30.04

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artillery, attempting to halt the Teutonic juggernaut, is one of terrible difficulty because the 3000 German planes in the operation fly daringly, tree-high, in front of the advancing tanks to machine-gun defenders. Great tanks of 70 tons come spitting fire from two turret guns and four to six machine guns. As soon as one of them is damaged or runs out of fuel or ammunition, it turns off the road and another takes its place.

Little Fighting Between Planes

There is little fighting between airplanes. The German bombers come unprotected by fighters and depend on only their own speed and armament to get back.

Such fights as there are are rarely seen aground because they take place at 30,000 feet or so, often. Pilots say that anything below 20.000 feet is dangerously low for present day fighting. The worst sensation I had at the front was that of the presence of dive bombers. They cruise too low for effective anti-aircraft fire against them. At six miles a minute they dash over a target before they can be seen. They turn quickly after spotting the target, climb 5000 feet, turn again, point down, open their motors wide and start down. At first there is a shrill whine. It gets louder and deepens until there is a blasting thunder from 1000 horsepower motors. A few hundred feet from the ground the plane drops its “eggs,” usually five which fall almost together, level out and race away.

Fighting Turns Info War of Thousands of Little Forts; ‘Railways Bent Like Pretzels Under Dive Bombers’ Fire

Ralph Heinzen French Army.

with the

WAR'S NOT LOST, BRITISH INSIST

Nazis Must Consolidate New Positions on Channel, Experts Point Out.

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of “so many aircraft that we never knew from what direction the attack was coming.” Because of demolition parties sent | to the Netherlands and Belgium by! the British, the Germans got practically no oil there, the British said.

Claim Forts Hold Out

So far as was known here, the Belgian forts at Liege and Namur still were holding out against at-| tacking Germans.

The British, French and Belgian | forces retreating from, Belgium are] nearing the Cambrai region ofl France, where the tank, then al British blitzkrieg weapon, scored in! 1917 the victory which made 1t a full-ranking instrument of war. | Tanks, it was said, must refuel | every 50 miles, and it was for that reason that the British Royal Air Force planes were intensively bomb- | ing German supply columns as well as north German oil reservoirs.

Plan Death for Parachutists

Parliament reassembled today and Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the Houses of Commons that legislation decreeing death for ail] enemy parachutists landing on Brit- | ish soil in civilian clothes will be enacted tomorrow. War Secretary Anthony Eden told the House that organization of defense volunteers was proceeding “with great rapidity.” At the same time, military experts said an attempted invasion by sea

brary had Leen ruined by fire.

|and a university professor has ot- the fall of Bjornefjell station, on

| where the Germans had captured

they don’t expect it.”

Louvain Shows Results of Terrible, Merciless Attacks.

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we should take care. where we stepped. Hand grenades left by the British were lying about the fountain in the| : market square. The Avenue de Tirlemont, one of the main residential boulevards, was ghastly. It|: seemed as if every house had been]: struck by grenades or artillery. The |.

British had defended it at one time during four days of fighting, the Germans at another. Apparently every one of Louvain’s remaining 41,000 people had evacuated before the Germans arrived. The historic town hall and the cathedral had suffered little damage. Some university buildings were damaged, but the famous liIt n:ust be counted a total loss. (Indiana University helped reconstruct this library after the World War.)

Origin a Mystery The city is now under the administration of a German colenel

and troops and labor corps men. The people are starting to return,

Frederick C. Oechsner traveling with German forces.

NORWEGIANS CLAIM NARVIK FALL NEAR

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 21 (U. P.).—Norwegian reports from the Narvik front said today that

fered to act as mayor and form athe railroad line running to the municipal council. : | Swedish frontier, was imminent and The Commandant said he had that the position of the beleaguered!

advised all returning refugees to! : resume their normal lives. | German garrison at Narvik was un- |

At Lowenhoven, on the Belgian tenable. side of the Wilhelmina Canal, we| With the fall of Bjornefjell, all saw the first signs of real fighting hope of sending supplies to the Narvik garrison from Sweden would end. Norwegian and Allied forces The Secret of Warfare | were closing in on the valuable iron “We captured it by attacking ore port, dispatches said.

from an unexpected direction,” an officer said. “That's the secret of Reports from northern Norway aggravated the war tension in

warfare today—attack from where | | Sweden but the department of in-

At Tongeren I saw my first sam- formation here announced that ple of the dive bomber work since Sweden was arming for defense Poland, and what the Stukas could against any involvement. do to a town in combination with | Although reports abroad that tanks. The railroad station was a | Germany had made “requests” for flattened pile of bricks. Whole | permission to ship materials and fronts of houses had been shorn | men across Sweden for the relief of away. Beds, wardrobes, bathtubs, | the Narvik garrison were denied by kitchen tables, baby carriages, hung | the Foreign Office, diplomatic circles crazily or stood as if in open did not regard the information defronted doll houses. Restaurant Partment’s announcement as a catefronts were blown away, their tables gorical denial that the Swedish GovBut for a few dynamited spots | ernment had been asked to com-

a strong pill box.

TALIANS BEGIN AIR RAID DRILL

Rome and Other Industrial Centers Blacked Out; War Talk Goes On.

ROME, May 31 (U. P.).—The first anti-air raid and black-out drills in Italy since the beginning

of the total war start today in Rome and in the principal industrial and shipping centers. The War Ministry announced that drills would be held today, to morrow and Thursday at Rome and Terni, rich industrial city 50 miles north of the capital. Intensive drills will be held in the narthern cities of Milan, Genoa and Turin, near the French border. Premier Benito Mussolini received his chief of staff, Gen. Pietro Badoglio, who reported on his recent inspection of Italy's western frontier fortifications. Newspapers commenting on the speech made Sunday by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan, emphasized his warning that Italy's participation in the war was inevitable, but they did not speculate regarding the date Mussolini was to give the “word.” The War Ministry's announcement followed a pro-Japanese demonstration by 75,000 persons crowded in Venice Square to greet the Japanese commercial and friendship mission which arrived from Naples yesterday.

Report Russian Troops

Near Bessarabia Region

BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 21 (U, P.). — Reports of Russian troop movements near the Bessarabia dis trict of Rumania and Hungary's province of Carpatho-Ukraine strengthened the belief in Balkan capitals today that Russia was pre= paring to intervene should the war spread to southeastern Europe. Well-informed quarters suggested that the troop movements involved several divisions. Russian circles here did not deny the reports. The Balkans, particularly Rue mania and Jugoslavia, were ner=vous but it was generally believed that nothing was likely to happen in this region unless Italy entered the war. In Budapest, 1t was felt that Italy’s decision might be made within a week or 10 days. Meantime, Hungary continued

which engineers quickly repaired, Promise her strict neutrality.

military precautions.

tiie main road to Brussels was almost undamaged — the Germans again had been too fast. As we approached Tirlemont the tenacity of the peasantry became apparent. In driblets, farm families who had fled were returning in horse and dog drawn carts, their children perched atop bedclothes, their hungry dogs welcoming them with staccato barks and plaintive

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whines. The Germans warned children to stay off the roads because of the racing stream of transport.

Advancing by Flood

would be “fantastic.” They declared (there would be few docks which] could handle 70-ton tanks and add- | ed that German transports would | find it difficult to land troops and equipment in the face of British aviation, sea power, mine protection and shore batteries, even if the Nazis were able to develop special] ships for embarking and disembarking tanks. Volunteers Rush to Serve

Hastily formed volunteer patrols, dubbed “parashoots,” already were guarding stations at vulnerable points throughout the country. Defense posts, including machine gun nests, barbed wire barricades | and sand-bagged “forts” were | springing up all over London, particularly in the Whitehall area, where the Government buildings are located. Meanwhile, six German merchant ships totaling about 30,000 tons were listed by the Admiralty today as believed to have been sunk during the last week. The Admiralty said that the latest German sea casualties bring Germany's total mercantile losses for the war to approximately 820,000 tons or nearly 20 per cent of the German prewar fleet. The Admiralty admitted the loss of the cruiser Effingham, 9770 tons. The vessel struck an uncharted rock off the Norwegian coast and sank. There were no casualties.

RED CROSS TOTAL RISES TO $20,344

Several large contributions, including one of $3800 from Eli Lilly & Co. today brought the local Red Cross war relief fund to $20,344.75. Among the other contributors today were the Indianapolis Water Co., $500; the Grain Dealers Mutual Agency, Inc, $503 G. D. Thornton, $50; Rappaport, Kipp & Leiber, $50; Guarantee Tire & Rubber Co., $50; Kahn Tailoring Co., $50, and F. W. Abke, $25. William Fortune, chairman of the local committee in charge of the drive, received a telegram from Richard Allen, of the Washington Red Cross staff, saying that Belgian refugees were streaming into France by the thousands and that more money was needed there, despite the

At Tirlemont a general staff officer proudly showed ‘us where a German tank corps had gone around

a dynamited bridge by smashing

its way through factory yards and walls until it reached the next bridge. That is what the Germans are doing in their “flood” method of advance, by which, when they meet an obstacle and cannot beat their way through, they “flow” around it. The minute attention to detail in this blitzkrieg, with every cog in Germany geared to advance the striking force, makes the World War seem like a slow motion picture by comparison.

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There were not many devastated areas. But such as they were showed the terrible force, thoroughness and mercilessness of modern warfare. The Stuka planes took the lead. Then came the tanks along parallel

highways and fields. Then came motorized shock troops and ordinary infantry and artillery. For miles there would be almost no sign that war had passed, except that the villages were empty.

Strike With Deadly Accuracy

Then would come a town or village that had been a target. Perhaps one building, perhaps a street, would be in flattened ruins. This was chiefly the work of the dive bombers, striking with deadly accuracy, to knock out a defense nest and clear the way for the clanking tanks. That is why the blitzkrieg has done in days what the Kaiser's Army did in weeks. The technique has the precision and the decisiveness of a surgical operation. The civilian population shows signs of deep shock and grief. People usually turn their heads away when our cars pass, or when the great supply motor trains roar by toward the front. Only women, old men and children are to be seen. ' All the men are fighting. Brussels I found calm. It is gradually getting back to normal life, which includes sitting for a few hours in the sun. A representative of an American bank told us that Ambassador John Cudahy and his staff had gone to another place in Belgium and that all Americans were safe. The leading hotel has become German army headquarters. German soldiers are posted about the city. A proclamation by the mayor calls on the people to obey orders of German authorities. The Nazi

efforts of the French Red Cross.

swastika flag flies from the City Hall.

Paris, Serene and With Full Faith in French

Army, Waits Another Miracle of Marne

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor PARIS, May 21—A completely calm and confident Paris today is awaiting another miracle of the Marne. I was in Paris in Septémber, 1914, and the French capital then was amazingly serene. It is even more so now. Then, in the back of every French mind, was the memory of Sedan and the tragic fall of Napoleon III. Now that memory is erased and in its place is an abiding faith in the French arms, due to the First and Second Battles of the Marne, in 1914 and 1918.

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enveloped Paris and the capital was virtually given up for lost. Then appeared the so-called “Angel of the Marne.” Many poilus avowed with deep sincerity that they saw an angelic figure in the skies above the battlefield, urging them on and promising victory. The Germans were hurled back in one of the greatest routs in all history—a defeat which lost Germany the war. The makers of that miracle were Joffre, Foch. Petain, Weygand and others, many of whom have long since gone to the warriors’ Valhalla. But two, at least—Petain and Weygand—remain, and the French man in the street firmly believes that the

angel of the Marne is still watching over them. Weygand was the aide and spiritual son of Foch, and now that Weygand is the supreme commander the French are saying, “Foch is among us again.” The French people are entirely aware that the biggest battle of all time is being fought at the gates of their capital. Their calm is not due to ignorance of what is happening. They know that Hitler will stop at nothing to win and that the terrors

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