Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1940 — Page 3
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1040
| ALLIES BATTERING | GERMAN FLANKS
French-English-Belgian Forces Recapture Key Railway Center of Arras; England Imposes Dictatorship; ‘Now 55 Miles From Paris,” Berlin Says. (Continued from Page One)
behind each other's lines and across communications and supply routes at dozens of points military experts said almost anything might happen. One thing was certain. The Germans were mustering
REPUBLICAN LEADERS DRAFT PARTY PLANKS
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the ground that it is not a major party issue this year. Meanwhile, 32 candidates seeking the 11 nominations to be made at the convention took over the downe town hotel lobbies today with came paign ballyhoo. Tomorrow, most of the six candi= dates for Governor nomination will hold demonstrations in the streets with their “home-town” bands drilling with banners. The hot contest for Governor is all but eclipsing the Senatorial nomination contest which has been generally conceded to Raymond E. Willis, Angola publisher and 1938 nominee. However, some party leaders still
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F.D.R. ACTS TOBALK RISE OF 5TH COLUMN
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for the transfer of the Immigration and Naturalization functions from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. “I am convinced . . . that under existing conditions the Immigration and Naturalization activities can best contribute to the national well being only if they are closely integrated with the activities of the Department of Justice. . . . “While it is designed to afford more effective control over aliens, this proposal does not deflect any intention to deprive them of their
. . . . i Hitler Needs Quick Victory By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor PARIS, May 22.—Military observers here are now convinced that
Hitler intends to force a decision in the war this summer, even though
its costs Germany seven million men. Shortly before the war began, a high personage with excellent connections in Berlin told me the Nazi general staff viewed the coming conflict with serious misgivings, believing that it probably would drag for years and that Germany would be unable to stand the long strain. Germany, he said, was short of raw materials for an extended war and was especially deficient in highquality lubricating oils, without which airplane engines burn themselves out. That is why Hitler is said to have decided to throw everything into one gigantic battle while the adJ vantage was still on his side. He civil liberties or otherwise impair figured that the first World War
ably sooner—the Reich would collapse from within. All this is taken to mean that the battle now raging is likely to prove decisive so far as Hitler is concerned. He must win or perish. The corollary seems obvious. Whatever help the United States can give the Allies must be given promptly if it is to be of maximum service. A thousand planes now would be worth two thousand next
every resources to hold and extend the line they have driven all the way across northern France to the English Channel.
their legal status. cost Germany seven million casual“This reorganization will enable |ties, of which 1,700,000 were killed, the Governmbent to deal quickly and resulted in a defeat which
month or four thousand next fall.
Whatever aid short of war can be
extended would be .doubly helpful
with those aliens who
now, with the accent on now.
were talking the possibility of bringing up a strong “dark horse” candidate on the convention floor.
conduct drained her financially, economthemselves in a manner that con- (ically, physically and morally. flicts with the public interest.” | So, the Fuehrer is reported to Mr. Roosevelt sald no monetary have reasoned, it would be better avings are anticipated as a result this time to risk all on one colossal = the Se Sete J ptaiion blow, with seven million killed or rsonnel, g Ximately | wounded a cheap price for victory. CALLANDER, Ontario, ‘ 1000 inspectors and 800 patrolmen, Defeat would leave Germany no! U.P). — TH po ey, 2 : merely will be shifted to the Justice | worse off than at the end of the| -' © £ ® Juinfun.ers, Department. other war. In fact, she would be already veteran movie actors, won’t “I realize that the Congress may | better off for having been spared start broadcasting for a couple of adjourn before the termination of {years of demoralizing conflict. years at least. the 60-day period provided under Observers here, therefd e, are con-| That was the decision reached by the Reorganization Act, but in that fident that if the Allies can defeat |their board of guardians, as offers to event and in view of the urgency of | Hitler in the present battle the|broadcast their sixth birthday party this matter I hope that it will take Nazi's doom will be sealed. Germany, on May 28 were rejected. 'The chil-| Oklahoma that “President Roosee such action as will permit this plan (they believe, could not make an-| dren's inability to speak English |velt will not seek the third term, to go into effect,” Mr. Roosevelt other such effort. The war would | prompted the rejection, it was said.| the people will take the third term said. drag on and sooner or later—prob-'The children speak only French. to him.”
Their immediate objective was to crush the Allied army of the north—comprising the British Expeditionary Force, French units, the Belgian army and Dutch remnants—which has been cut off from the main French forces by the German drive across France.
This possibility seemed to fade as convention time draws nearer, how= ever. Other Senatorial candidates include Walter Bossert of Liberty and Straude E. Wiseman of New Albany.
3D TERM GETS 6 MORE VOTES DOVER, Del, May 22 (U. P.).—= Delaware's six : delegates to the Democratic national convention toe day were under instructions to supe port a third term for President Roosevelt after being told yesterday by U. S. Senator Joshua B. Lee of '
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Recapture French City of Arras
The thrust of the German Abbeville forces toward Montreuil and St. Pol, in apparent disregard for their communications at Arras, is designed to tighten the steel ring around the Allied northern army. At the same time the German Air Force blasted at the French channel ports to hinder and disorganize any effort to remove the Allied army by sea. In this dangerous situation the Allies were fighting back hard. Their recapture of Arras may indicate an attempt to blast a pathway through the German salient back to the main Allied positions south of the River Somme. At the same time, other units of the trapped Allied force smashed at Valenciennes, near the northern hinge of the original German break-through on the Western Front.
Here again the objective is to blast a corridor through the [ Tke Scars on Lovely Face, German salient, cutting the German lines of communication . . Broken Villages Dot Fields
and enabling the isolated French corps to rejoin their main (Continued from Page One)
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Times-Acme Radiophoto, Noel Murphy, an American volunteer, comforts a crying French refugee while her aged husband sleeps the sleep of exhaustion against a pile of belongings they rescued from their home.
body which is south of the Aisne near Rethel. Huge losses were being suffered on each side. French sources estimated that the Germans had lost 500,000 killed
guns into blazing action as the; amazed at the “lack” of air activity
and wounded since invading Holland. A London source! bombs crashed. 'by the British. He said he traveled At his headquarters outside Brus- about 125 miles a day and had yet
placed German casualties on the Western Front at 225,000, sels, General Reichenau told me and to see a British plane attack. He plus 200,000 in Poland and 25,000 to 30,000 in Scandinavia. a group of baer Fore Cory ssponds | Ba hay two Bombs dropped Mon, ig . n ents that the fighting so far had|day night near his headquarters but The Germans claimed to have captured 110,000 to 120,000 een only preliminary to the deci- that they were not near enough to prisoners but did not estimate Allied casualties.
sive battle. wake him. “We have won the first tricks, but | “The English might be holding we have yet to meet the body of back for a decisive show-down,” the enemy,” he said. {he conceded.
The Royal Air Force was heavily engaged in the Allied] “I can imagine our forward march| Eiither the British planes were being halted for a while now, and rot good for bombing or British
effort to extricate themselves from their dangerous position. | that the next few days will see hard |pilots were not adequately trained,
R. A. F. planes last night bombed most of the line of Ger- fighting, for Weggzand (the Allied Reichenau held.
icati . ino! : : oi “Either they can not find targets ma n Ma : n communications from Aachen, west to the fighti g| Commander in Chief, Gen. Maxime|, “STS WICY sa Sob wy og 0
lines. Bridges across the Meuse were blasted and heavy Weygand) will surely give orders to not hit them.” he said.
attacks were made near Namur and Dinant. ovary Inn to Sand his Sou. | The German air force, he said, “ s . "I need not say, however, ihat we had been trained carefully for a : German sources claimed the Allies had lost 2000 planes jo0k confidently to the future.” | good many years before it had had in 11 days fighting and predicted that the war's outcome Refhensn a hs Talked Ieqlient. | practical experience of war. : . . [ly w 0 itler by telephone, | : - would be Jetermined in the space of weeks. > | Out In front of the German ar
: . ! 'and gave Hitler periodic reports on tillery, I saw the way in which Paris believed that Arras might be the prelude to a troop movements. ‘the Germans are trying to cut major Allied offensive in northern France. The invaders, it
|, He Is not only the political, but| allied communications and trap a : ‘ cA a3 | the military leader of the German pig Allied army between Reichenau’s was said, still face the enormous task of consolidating gains people in the full sense of the army and the Scmme Valley wedge. ys ; St Loan : n : .« Word,” Reichenau said of Hitler. | The British. holdi : wrested in a blitzkrieg that put the Allies with their backs Germany has to NIOSH. Shout! ' ding the rear, to the wall but not out.
. ‘ . cr viwere striving to keep their positions this war, Reichenau said, and is in- |; : : vi 3 Sts | a Ere ~~ |along the Scheldt River as they The French conceded that German motorized units Sulginy 3 0 Jnjustinsble celebra- | fought, their way back to France reaching Abbeville, 70 miles across the English Channel| “We know a greater battle must | 27 or min pes IMR from Hastings, were attempting to fan out up the French come.” he explained. “We will pre-| pone exploding in a road along
coast to further isolate Allied armies in Belgium. Doh I an om '- Win sien the British were retreatIn connection with the situation at Abbeville, a French | ; (+ UN keane wal . | | Asked to make some sort of premilitary spokesman said that the latest dispatches merely giction as to the probable course of re ne . <1 - the remainder of the war Reichenau . showed that the Germans had entered and killed the sta ie e war ‘own lines, the British could see tion master. Reports abroad quoting the spokesman 2S “I cannot prophesy anything the unending limes of Geren Shp. savi ‘rench had re-taken the town were described as about the end of the war. I was Plies and reinforcements moving Saying the Fre d (four and one-half years in the 0 the front. The whole business incorrect. | World War and there were then °f the blitzkrieg seemed to be many false prophecies.” proceeding with perfect timing, | He said, however, that Germany without a hitch. Every unit in a wae 5 al . . was determined to win and this de- great intricate machine clicked into But there were signs of returning confidence among the (ermination was backed up by out- place. Every man had a task to do Allies, and on a visit to German Belgian Field Headquarters standingly good morale among the in an appointed time and every
. in] | German troops. The troops, he said, man seemed to be doing it J * 27 n - | . of Col. Gen. Walter von Reichenau near Brussels, F rederick go inspired by their successes s0| On the way from Br eh to the
C. Oechsner, chief of the United Press Berlin Staff, found far in Holland, Belgium and France, battle zone I saw how bitter must
. m d y onli Ty wunine 2nd had in addition the advantage have been the fi hting as t that the Germans themselves realized that their overruning g practical experience of War In stubbornly he Seu as the Allies
of the Low Countries and northern France had meant noth- Poland and Norway. The town of Ath, down by the
: Sei | Reverting to the battle to come Fren . , ing decisive. land its possible result, the battle op aye, showed the effects
. . ye 3 ras % A . Lo Until the cheering word of the recapture of Arras came, et, he ye Ne ow Jevelingy Bridges over the Scheldt at Ath civilian refugees were beginning to leave Paris. But their itary decision of = wor im. | had been blown up by the Allies. departures were calm and orderly and the exodus did not portance was reached within eight | 2 We passed to the other side i : wv. bed led ref f Bel- hours on a very small space of (Of the town, we saw the evidences match the influx of weary, bedraggled re ugees from Bel-| 04" But again he declined to|Cf the savage fight that had taken gium and northern France, devastated by the blitzkrieg, Pn Place Sunday between German and
’ sohti towed; : He said that the British and Bel-| British and French tanks. the crazy, confused fighting between invading and defending | glans Dad Ho adr erp Green| Waris Stew Main Bead units. up opposite him. (An army gorps Disabled d sland ; , ; Ms y ve ». may be of two or more divisons, €d and abandoned tanks Italian reports said the French Government was pre- bering perhaps 30,000 men) Strewed the main road all the way paring to move to Clermont-Ferrand and already had trans-| The German losses since the stare from Lueze to Bessit woth} ther : : “ |of the offensive were less than one-! dies o € horses and the ferred ar chives there. This was not confirmed in Paris, tenth the number of Allied prisoners French field guns which had been United States Consular offices in Paris, including the taken, he asserted. He did not give caught in surprise flank attacks dot-
; : 4 Ww Aisws / , figures. But the Germans have as- ted the fields along the road. Taso 0) Nise Sorters: were ordered to transfer to serted that they had taken between| EVen up in the battle ime to Bordeaux and Nantes.
Royal Air Force Heavily Engaged
Timing Seems Perfect | From obscrvation posts in their
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they had ever seen in their lives and apparently they were surprised to see me there talking to them. (Mr. Oechsner, manager of the United Press Berlin Bureau, is a native of New Orleans.) They were obviously apprehensive about the treatment they were to receive from the Germans and a German officer who spoke English observed : “Apparently they think we are barbarians.” Tension among the peasants of the smaller towns in the area that had been fought over, obviously had been relaxed somewhat. Belgians in these parts seemed convinced that for them the war was over, that there would be no Allied counterattack and that their land would not be overrun again and again by fighting armies x: 4 There were few smiles to be seen | but people were going doggedly back to piece their lives together. The white flag that hung in windows when the Germans eame are being taken in, cement is being mixed in
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