Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1940 — Page 28
FRIDAY, MAY 24 1040
FRENCH INSIST GERMANS FLEE RAIN OF DEATH
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Claim Allies Reduce Gap
Between Two Armies To 25 Wiles.
PARIS, Way 24 (U. P) New rman mechanized and motorized units are driving northwestward toward the Channel ports through the Somme-Arras gap in the Allied lines under a terrible rain of fire from Allied heavy guns and airblanes, military informant seis today, The entire gap between the All Army of the north. withdrawing from Belgium, and the main French Army, the Army of the South, Was Now under a violent Allied bombardment by Allied artillery and airplanes, it was asserted The battle in the Scheldt region Was reported to have passed out of the phase of mechanized engagements, and huge bodies of massed infantry--hoth Allied and German Were closing in in combat A powerful effort to achieve w= Juncture between the Allied forces north of the German corridor and the main armies to the south was
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in the making despite the German |
drive to the Channel northwest of the upper Somme
Claim Gap Narrowed
The military analvst of Li Temps declared that the “initiative is no longer entirely in German hands” as the result of the opening phases Of the Allied counter-action The progress of German detachments toward the Channel was described rather as an escape through the Allied fire than an advance in force, The Allies, it was said, now had reduced from 35 to 25 miles the gap between their armies between the Somme at the Arras area after taking Arras and extending their front t the Arras-Bapaume Road. It was said the French now had penetrated into the suburbs of Amiens Heavy fighting continued in the Vallenciennes-Cambrai region on the Escaut River, the military spokesman said, and the Allies had met with local successes and failures alike. Report Metz Bombed The War Office analyst nounced that the Germans had bombed the city of X%etz below Luxembourg in the Maginot Line, and he said that the French had immediately bombed a German city in reprisal There was no confirmation, he said, that Germans had bombed Strasbourg, on the Rhine, which was evacuated at the start of the war, If Strasbourg had been hit, he said, it probably was by German artillery fire. Since the start of the war Metz had not been hit and only one stray shell had struck Strasbourg. Anti-aircraft batteries fired in the Paris region today, but no air raid alarm was sounded. Reynaud and Weygand Confer Premier Paul Reynaud conferred with Gen. Maxime Weygand, com-mander-in-chief of the Allied forces, and Sir Ronald Campbell, British Ambassador Gen. Weygand, on the basis of experts’ intimations, believed that it was between the Scarpe and Escaut snd the Somme Rivers that the test between Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg forces and the Allisd armies would be fought to the finish. The grave anxiety shown in Great Britain over the German thrust to the Channel was not reflected here. French strategists insisted that the German wedge toward the Channel was but lightly held and that the main German Army was going to make its big win-or-lose gamble on the Flanders battleground. The view of French military exberts was decidedly more optimistic without being over-confident. Tt was admitted that the Battle of
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Flanders, fierce as it was, was still |
in its opening phase. But it was asserted that the Al-
lied armies were strong, that their!
troops were picked men, that they were backed by enormous quantities of material.
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Reports from Furope claim that the Germans are using flame-throwing tanks in their invasion of Belgium wnd France. This photo shows an Italian flame thrower at maneuvers several years ago.
Asbestos-Clad
Drivers Spread
Death ond Ruin in France
By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent
i PARIS, May 24 —The newest and terrible of Germany's mechlanized land weapons is the flamethrowing tank, a fast, light, cab-like engine of destruction which ean consume towns, visit a veritable Hell occupants of defense case-
most
upon
ments and spread excruciating death |
among soldiers in the field. These mobile flame-hurlers made (their appearance on French battlefields after the advance of Germany's heavy armored tanks had been slowed in places by refueling necessities. They are the product of an imaginative engineering which has ‘scrapped the classic concepts of war and, us French military experts now agree, made material more important than tactics. The flame-throwers with their protruding, cannon-like muzzles, operated by asbestos-clad specialists, (took the offensive at a time when
however, to fight their way through fortified positions and right up to casements. They earry two machine guns and 37-millimeter cannon. The casemate reached, the tank pours liquid fire through the gun aperture, literally frying those inside, In contrast to this most modern
[have gone back to the age Of ‘chivalry to protect their flying ool-| ums of motorcyclists. Fach cyclist | lis equipped with metal visors and armored jackets consisting of steel | 'breastplates, loosely jointed in front, | fand metal mesh similar to chain mail behind.
In addition to this accoutrement, |
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — German Tanks Hurl Flames at Foe ARMY SHORT ON Berlin Completes Modern Underground I. . : As Shelter for 2,500,000 in Case Bombs Fall
BRITAIN. CONTINUES
FASCIST ROUNDUP
P) . Senate carries $75 000000 for “cloth |
LONDON, May 24 (U. Britain's roundup of Fifth Column suspects sent Capt. Prang Rintelen, chief (German sabotage
agent in the United States during | the World War, to an internment War uniforms ang eloth, Thut stock |
camp today.
| ‘Coincident with Rintelen's arrest, are how dependent solely on what
[authorities pressed their drive for We procure | (Security on the home front by ar. each year,” Gen. Marshall testifted
of military ‘weapons, the Germans resting three more members of the ih a Senate hearing,
British Union of Yascists una rounding up members of the Irish Republican Army in northern Ire. land Today's arrests of British Tas. cists brought the total arrests in Britain since the drive started yes. terday to 87, } Capt. Archibald Ramsay, wealthy
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| BERLIN, May M4 (U.P) =A vast
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matic of U. S. Problem [stations and food warehouses=-has
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| Tt | térranean passages that ead to air Times Speotal Writer |
(raid shelters, and is linked at key
United States went to war tomor- it Is said. row, Sofie of its troops would have to march in overalls,
The Army has nothing like lead to ‘wooded suburbs ‘Where
the cloth, to outfit the so-called safe from air bombing. “protective mobilization plan” force These modern catacombs, destgivecd
ave in the feld within wu fow| [months after M.day This item of clothing for the troops fs symptomatic of the Army's eNOrmous procurement problem, Would Take 9 Months |
It has been oMoially estimated that, even with adequate appropriations, full equipment for an Army of one million could not be assured | until “some time in 1942.” ¥ven in| $0 relatively simple a matter as uniforms, according to Gen, George | C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, “the turning of money into, completed uniforms requires approximately hine months,” The hurriedly enlarged Army Ap- | propriations Bill just passed by the |
ing and esquipage.” That compares with $10,000,000 for this purpose in as passed earlier by the House, “In 1920 we had a large stock of
(has how bacome exhausted, and we |
from appropriations
Not Enough for Peace Time | “If it should become necessary to mobilize the National Guard at | [peace strength (320,000), we would not have oh hand the cloth to com'mence the manufacture of uniforms for the 85000 additional men for possibly four or five months.’ The Army has hot even enough
‘the motoreyelist carries an auto- | Conservative member of Parliament ‘blankets to take care of 500.000 re-
matic rifle slung over his back, with | and president of the “Right Club”; leruits.
Ten years ago it had more
a belt of extra cartridges, a gas John Beckett, former member of thap two million blankets. but the
mask in a metal tube, steel helmet, a can of gasoline suspended from
his shoulders, a pistol or two, sev-| “People’s Party,” and members of is only 200000. Cen Gregory said
eral daggers and trench Knives, and Mosley's among those held,
a bag of hand grenades.
{the Prench claimed that the Ger-|
mans had lost more than 1400 tanks, armored cars and other mechanized weapons in 10 days of battle. They are designed to destroy towns and villages as well as to make frontal attacks oh enemy po(sitions. Speeding down a street, the flame-thrower pokes its nozzle against a house and squirts flaming gasoline inside. ‘Wrery third house
fs so treated, the theory being that |
the flames will structure to another
| The flame-throwers are equipped,
201. R. A. SUSPECTS SEIZED IN BELFAST
{ BELFAST, North Ireland, May 24 (U. P) Police today arrested 20 Irish Republican Army suspects in Belfast and eight in Londonderry. Doors of the suspects’ homes were
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lice raids. Throughout the night soldiers in armored cars aided police in rounding up I. R. A. members in northern Ireland. One I. R. A. member [arrested last week was described as the adjutant general of the outlawed army.
MAN FOUND DEAD IN CAR KENDALLVILLE, Ind, May 24 (U. P.). ~The body of Ivan Moats, 45, was found dead today in the garage Of his home at Ligonier. Coroner Myron Hutchins returned {a verdict of accidental death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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