Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1940 — Page 6

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~ FRENCH RETAKE

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~ Battle Upon Gen. Weygand’s Orders.

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fges of 21 and 55 years to join the Army for work with the General Staff Army Corps Staffs, and in the artillery, engineer, supply and medical services, as a special “Women’s Auxiliary With the military formations.” In the Arras battle, it was asserted, the French troops, plunging into a wild melee that covered miles of the ravaged plains of

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motorized forces which the Germans had Jeft to hold the city and Quickly knocked them out.

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Were chiefly motorcyclists, who in cooperation with parachutists, had

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torch and bombs. The Germans had entered Arras late Monday. They had failed properly to organize their positions, it was asserted, and they were quickly overcome. The battered British Expeditionary Force had left Arras aflame after a desperate, losing fight in the city’s burning streets. Houses ana cross roads had been fortified and anti-tank barriers thrown up in the streets. But the Germans had proved too strong, and after a day and night of fighting, the British had been forced out, their way lighted by the flames of burning homes. The turn, if momentary, came on the blazing Western Front while the American consular staff here, including the passport visa departments, was ordered to Bordeaux and Nantes safe from the fighting zone. The Embassy remains. At Amiens the Germans were 65 miles from Paris. The whole Amiens area, it was reported, was a wild melee among individual units. British and French troops were fighting running battles, back and forth, against German tank and motorcycle units. But the bulk of the German forces were not yet involved. French Blow Up Bridges A French source disclosed that the French had blown up bridges over the Somme at this point, and had entrenched themselves strongly on the south bank—a threat to the entire German wedge westward to the Channel. Thousands upon thousands of French reinforcements poured into battle areas under new instructions and strengthened the Allies along the German flanks. Informants here believed that the German motorized blitzkrieg units might now be in dangerous position in their narrow corridor, an estimated 60 miles, almost, from the main body of their army behind the Scheldt River. This morning’s High Command communique No. 523 of the war, said: “Enemy pressure continued in the direction of the coast in the form of raids carried out by small motorized detachments. “Arras is actually in our hands. “The enemy having shelled three cities behind our front in Lorraine, we retorted against three cities behind the enemy lines.” This meant three German cities along the Maginot Line to the east of the present battle ground. On its 13th day, the German blitzkrieg had become a nightmare. German lightning columns had passed Amiens, on the Somme, and Arras, to the northeast toward the Belgian border, to reach the Abbeville area on the English Channel. The main battle was being fought farther east in the Cambrai region, and here, according to reports, Germany was throwing everything she had in a gigantic fight to break the

bilities along this line.”

Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) studies the double-page vertisement placed in the Washington (D. C.) News by L. Strauss & Co., Inc, to stress Indianapolis’ natural advantages as an important center in the expanded defense program. After reading it, Senator VanNuys said that “no state in the union exceeds Indiana in possi-

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that Germany's air fleet had orders to “destroy” the “retreating” British either in the ports or on their ships. (Arras, where the Germans said they repulsed an Allied attack, was recaptured later by the French, according to dispatches from Paris. At one time, it was the headquarters for Viscount Gort, the British Imperial Chief of Staff)

Near Arras, a German account said, the British tried to escape encirclement in their retreat toward the Channel, but failed. Because the Germans had widened their advance toward the sea, the British had to fight rear guard actions to cover their witharawal and sent armored cars into the battle in a desperate struggle for “elbow room.” But German artillery and dive bombers, the account added, took a terrible toll and most of the Birtish armored cars were destroyed and the remainder joined the “hurried retreat.” The High Command said that the German Air Force yesterday had made successful attacks, especially on the enemy’s rear communications lines. The communique said that the Allies lost 120 planes, including 35 shot down in air battles and 14 brought down by German anti-air-craft guns. Ten German planes were reported missing. The railroad stations at Compiegne and Creil were set afire, the communique said. (The World War armistice was signed in Compiegne Forest.) The communique also said that in French and Belgian harbors and off the coasts, the German Air Force had destroyed one cruiser and 11 merchantmen or transports. Several other ships also were destroyed, it said. German speed boats, attacking the French channel ports, sank one enemy auxiliary cruiser, it was added. Allied airplanes raided Aachen for four hours early today, leaving a number of homes in ruins and at least one person dead. The raiders evidently aimed their bombs at the main railroad station, scoring hits in a half-mile radius of the center of the town, One bomb struck in the street before the Hotel Astoria and one person was killed. Another struck in a nearby street, wrecking the front

back of Allied resistance.

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persons in an air raid cellar beneath the apartment house escaped injury. Meserschmitt pursuit ships met the first Allied plane as it approached the city shortly after midnight and dropped several bombs. Then the raiders came in waves, dropping numerous bombs. The anti-aircraft guns fire was heavy.

TRADE W. INDIES TO U. S., ENGLAND TOLD

LONDON, May 22 (U. P). — Sir George Paish, economic adviser to the Chancellor of Exchequer during the World War, proposed today that Great Britain exchange some of her West Indies possessions for United States airplanes and pilots. He made the proposal in an address to the Sound Currency Association. “The danger of not being able to command enough cash resources to buy what we need,” he said, “is a matter of life and death.” He said that some Americans had suggested to him that Britain cede some of the West Indies colonies in payment of her war debt to the United States.

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4 AMERICANS IN AMBULANCE CORPS MISSING

‘Disappear’ During Battle Around Amiens; Hoosier’s Fate Unknown.

PARIS, May 22 (U. P.).—The Ambulance Field Service, in an announcement today said that four American drivers and two ambulances had disappeared during the

battle around Amiens but it was not known whether they had been killed cr captured. The missing men were identified as John Clement, a Harvard University graduate whose home was in Boston; Donald Coster, a Princeton graduate who lived in Montreal; George F. G. King, Cambridge graduate of New York, and Gregory Waite, Syracuse University graduate who lived in Vermont. Four other American volunteer driver still were missing after having been under bombardment in the Ardennes Sector where Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, was directing agtivities of the Civil Relief Committee. These drivers were Louis Wehrle, 43, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Al Raymond, Chicago; Murray Shipley, Cincinnati, O., and John Glowacki, Jersey City, N. J. The Ardennes sector was one of the first regions overrun in the German blitzkrieg. Miss Morgan had asked for immediate aid, after which four ambulances were sent northward. Since then no word has been received of the Americans. (The Headquarters dispatch refered to all four as Americans although three were United States citizens and presumably Coster was a Canadian.)

Louis Wehrle Is

Native of Berne, Ind. FT. WAYNE, Ind, May 22 (U. P.). — Louis Wehrle, 43, one of a group of volunteer American ambulance drivers reported missing today in the Ardennes sector in France, was born at Berne, Ind. near here, one of seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wehrle. During the World War he served as a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster’s Corp. After the war, he returned briefly to Ft. Wayne where his family was then living, but later went back to Paris where he operated a hotel with a Mr. and Mrs. Chaumier. Mr. Wehrle’s mother, 76, still is living here. Also living in Ft. Wayne are his sisters, Germaine, and Mrs. Violet Armey, and a brother, Paul. A sister, Mrs. Dora Paxton, lives at Kokomo, and another sister, Mrs. Flora Dawson, is at Cresline, O.

One brother, Andre, now lives in Chicago.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Pathos in Paris—Civilians Trudging Out, Refugees In

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barracks for transportation to the country. A typical refugee was 10-year-old Louise Holert. She sat on a wooden bench in one of the stations, breathing the odors of disinfectant, hot soup, bread, wine and bodies. Louise's baby sister sat on her lap, fondling a cardboard airplane.

Doctors Meet Trains

“I am a Belgian girl and this is my sister Francine. We're going to the country,” she said. The arrival of every train was welcomed by a rush of French doctors and nurses down the track sides, stopping at every compartment window and asking “any sick or wounded there?”

The lucky ones answer: “Non, monsieur, merci”—no sir, thank you. If there are wounded, they are taken from the rear cars. Some refugees sleep sitting upright. Old men lean against the walls and doze and children drop off to sleep on their feet. Nurse Gaudin, a portly woman of 50 in a flowing blue uniform, who hasm’t slept in two days, said her charges were numbed by the shock of battle and leaving their homes. The Belgians talk in low voices. They are extremely courteous to the women attendants and eat daintily as though they aren't hungry. Louise said her mother had been taken to a hospital. She and Francine are alone. “We left our home at night,” she said. “My brother put us on a bus to Namur but then all that was changed. We had to wait in a crowded farm house where mamma got sick. We waited and waited and finally got a train for France but it took so long. It always stopped and they had to fix it because of the German bombs hitting it. We weren't hurt by the bombs but the train jerked up and down.

Francine Cried All the Time

Francine cried all the time until a nice lady gave her that airplane. I have a bigger brother and uncle who are soldiers, but I haven't seen them.” Jean Seghers, 30, had a small farm west of Brussels. “I'm all alone now,” he said. “My wife and two children—we're expecting a third—were unable to riove. Somebody had to look after grandmother and grandfather who are over 80 years old. What's happened to them now I cannot tell.” In another refugee center, 11-year-old Jeanne Bradin, her pretty blond hair tied up with a stringy ribbon and wearing an apron soiled

troduced a Belgian playmate, Berthe, whose neck had been cut by flying glass in a bomb explosion. Berthe said her neck is stiff and “hurts when I lie down.” “I'm so tired but the nurse said it would be all right tomorrow.” She moved over to an old woman,

sitting on a trunk, leaned on her

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bosom and was asleep immediately. A little girl about 10 years old told in a matter-of-fact way how she had hitchhiked to Paris and that of the whole journey “the worst part was stepping over bodies in the

Pierre Loses an Arm

Pierre Arthur Vandamme came from Antwerp. He lost an arm, a foot and half of one side of his face in the last war as a young soldier defending Antwerp. “I never thought that after 25 years I'd have to begin all this over again,” he said. “However, here I am, safe for the moment. I bicycled all the way despite a Singleton foot. Fortunately I lived a sober life and have some savings and nothing to worry about except the immediate future. “It’s the women and children I'm sorry for. I wish I were able to do something for them. “Belgians don’t have much luck. It’s fortunate we're a hard-headed race.”

F. D. R. CALLED INJUDICIOUS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May 22 (U. P.).—Action of President Roosevelt in sending Myron C. Taylor as an envoy to the Vatican was “noble in aim, but injudicious,” the Northern Baptist convention was told today. The Rev. Edwin McNeill Poteat of the Euclid Avenue Baptist

JDTERMENTER COALITION TALK

Landon and Knox Reported Seeking Assurance F. D. R. Won’t Run.

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One report is that the two Republican leaders decided to insist that the President give his no third term assurance in the form of a public announcement. However, they are said to be desirous of co-operat-ing with the Administration in this crucial period and another report is that they may be satisfied with merely the President's personal promise and not insist on a public announcement. Mr. Landon conferred today with President Roosevelt on national problems growing out of the new World War. On his arrival at the White House he was taken immediately into Mr. Roosevelt’s executive office for a luncheon conference. Mr. Landon was not escorted and stepped from a car to face a battery of camera men. As he walked into the executive office, one bystander said: “Don’t let him sew you up, Alf.” Mr. Landon grinned, but nothing,

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‘WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1940 |

GRIDER LOSES SIX IN FIVE PRECINCTS

Neal Grider, on whose petition the Republican vote for County Treasurer is being recounted, lost six votes in the first five precincts counted, the recount board reported today. Paul E. Teegarden, successful candidate for the nomination, gained one vote and lost another, while the third candidate in the race, Burke Robison, gained two. The recount invalidated three votes for Mr. Grider in Precinct 4, Ward 1, and the same number in the Fifth Precinct. It is expected the recount will take nearly a month to complete. The recount of the Republican vote for Sheriff, reuested by Jesse E. Hutsell, one of the four candidates, probably will not be started for several days.

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