Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1940 — Page 3

LLIES FIGHT ON WITHOUT BELGIUM

Surr: i of Army by Leopold Threatens Destruction of British and French Forces Trapped In Flanders. / (Continued from Page One) rible blow . . . were to cause the Allied armies to throw up

fter that, the Nazis indicated, would come the cliblow against England. ® Allies Bitter Over Leopold’s Move at the British expected such an attack was more eviery hour and the Admiralty took over management

e ntrol of all Coast Guard stations throughout Great as part of the preparations to fight off an invading

There was much bitterness over Leopold's surrender, especially in Paris, but Churchill warned that he should not be judged hastily. It was reported in London that the Belgian rtionarch said his troops (about 400,000 to 500 000) had eaten ¢nly biscuits for four days and had in some cases fired their ammunition. thing that had gone before struck. with such stun- ' not disastrous force at the Allied fighting front as iden action of the King whose father—Albert of the is—had towered as an heroic figure above the ruins ountry in the World War. a broadcast to the French people, Premier Paul d, bitterly and contemptuously denounced the surand promised eventual victory despite the fact that the darkest days had come as a result of the Belgian capitulation (which collapsed the vital left flank of the Allied front in the East and threw open to the German armies the path to the|ramaining Channel ports.

. British Press Opens UponL 1d

ister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper : sold the people by radio that the situation of the British expeditionary forc: in Flanders was one of “extreme gravity” but that “there is not the slightest reason for panic.” e British press assailed Leopold as “King Quisling” erence to the Norwegian pro-Nazi leader Vidkun who was charged with Trojan Horse activities— lled that the Belgian monarch is a brother of the Princess of Italy. / 1t it also was revealed in London that a last-minute “to persuade Leopold to follow the example of Queen na of Holland, and flee to London to carry on the n there, had been turned down by the Belgian

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attem Wilh war ruler. make good the promise of destruction, the German imand hurled more and more power into the attack rs. The dread dive bombers blasted at Allied lines g number. Artillery pounded them ceaselessly a after ‘time—massed infantry charged over the

bodies of their own dead in an effort to deliver the knockout blow. ea e German bombardment of the Channel carried over Kentish coast of England, where British airplanes and anti-aircraft artillery were in action over a long period. The British Air Ministry said that yesterday the Royal Air “Force| had destroyed or severaly damaged 79 ‘German air-

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High Command communique issued from. Adolf s fisld headquarters praised Leopold for surrendering to the ine vitable to avoid still greater slaughter, promised hir castle in Belgium for a temporary residence and said that: the Belgian troops had fought with great bravery.

Hungary Calls Army Reservists

Allied counter-attacks were repulsed, the German

mand said. while, in' Hungary additional army reservists were called|to tire colors and it was reported in diplomatic circles that' Russia was working to form a chain of buffer states in Balkans, including Rumania, Bulgaria and J ugoslavia. The ans were alleged .to have threatened to march into syn Europe if Italy joined the war and moved into ns. * 2 Rome, it was said that Premier Benito Mussolini might reveal his war or peace plans to a Council or Ministers cn June 4, but there was no definite new indication e Italians plan an early entry into the war on the

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"DEFENSE TAX. CREATER-DEBT

Present Congress to Get Bills For 5-Year Plan; F. D. R. Gives Approval. (Continued from Page One)

ing a continuing study of various types of national defense taxes.

at a moment's notice to provide whatever data was wanted by the Congressional committees. Suggested as possible sources of revenue were broadening of the personal income tax, the so-called super tax and new excise taxes and increases in present ones. Meanwhile, the President devoted his efforts toward creation of a civilian organization to co-ordinate defense preparations. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said he hoped that a preliminary announcement of the plan would be made| late today.

House Studies Naval Labor

Other defense developments included: 1. The House considers today legislation to ease labor restrictions on shipyard workers in an effort to hasten naval construction and to authorize the Navy to increase its

10,000 pilots. 2. House appropriations commit-' tees sought to speed up consideration of the Senate-approved Army Supply Bill and the naval measure. The House Military Affairs Committee. approved bills authorizing emergéncy defense expenditures of $18,500,000 at military posts.

Tool Makers Meet

3. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., announced that “for the good of the whole economy,” the automobile industry would, something unforeseen comes up,”

models. 4.'Tool makers met in Dayton. o, today to discuss the Government’s program for an estimated 200 million dollars in machine-tool orders.

Hydro-Electric Centers

Studied in Defense Plan

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.). —Preésident Roosevelt and his Cabiret are studying the feasibility of developing defense industries near strategically located, inland hydrociectric centers such as the Tennessee Valley, it was learned today. The proposal was advanced at Mr. Roosevelt’s three-hour Cabinet meeting last Friday. No decision was reached but the suggestion was said to have met some favorable response.

MORE ‘SAD NEWS’ GIVEN PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today received with sadness the news that King Leopold "had surrendered the Belgian Army to the Germans. - Commenting on the capitulation, Secretary Stephen T. Early voiced the President's reaction with the remark that “these are sad days.” Mr. Roosevelt was informed of L.eopold’s decision shortly after 8 a. m. today. William C. Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France called the White House by trans-Atlantic telephone at 4:30 a. m. but it was rot relayed to the President until he .awakened.

THREE HOOSIERS DIE

NEW CASTLE, Ind., May 28 (U. P.).—Mrs. Gertrude Alexander, 28, of Muncie, died yesterday of injuries received May 17 when her car went out of control on State Road 3, north of here. John Lassen Jr., 17, of Néw Castle, died the day of the accident and two others were injured.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 28 (U. P.).—Charles A. Tridle, 71, and his wife, Bertha, 60 of South Bend were killed yesterday when their light car was struck by a Grand Trunk Western Railroad: passenger train at a South Bend grade crossing, Their deaths increased the county 1940 traffic toll to 17.

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broached the idea of capitulation [ito members of the Cabinet after || emphasizing his view that it was

|rejected the idea.

|| charges, || negotiate secretly with .the Ger-

| negotiations said the

Times Telephoto. This map shows how the Belgian capitulation has opened the door on the Allies left flank for a lightning Nazi advance to the Channel, placing the encircled Allied army in an ever tightening spot.

Today’s War Moves— | :

apitulation ic Blunder

J. W. T. Mason, whose feature “Today’s War Moves” won inter- , national fame in the World War, is writing a daily analysis of the military Siiuagion ‘in Europe for The Times.

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

The precarious situation of the Snglo-Frdnch troops in Flanders due to King Leopold's arbitrary surrender is the second tragic military blunder the impetuous young monarch has made to the detriment of his country durirg his brief reign. In 1936, two years after he became King, Leopold canceled Belgium’s military entente with France and Great Britain. He showed his forceful, headstrong character by this act, trusting to his own immature opinion rather than to expert opinion, just as today he has disregarded the judgment of his ministers, and capitulated on his own initiative. Leopold believed in 1936 that his denunciation of Belgium's military agreement with Erance and Great Britain would save his country from a German invasion in the event of a new European war. He trusted the Germans. For that reason, when Hitler violated Belgium’s neutrality 18 days ago, the Allies were unable to assist Belgium quickly enough, and the country was overrun. After thus jeopardizing his own country, Leopold, by his willful surrender, now has gravely hadicapped the . AngloFrench forces to whom he appeaied so tardily for help. Gen. Weygand now must rapidly revise the strategy of the Flanders fighting. It is improbable that the AngloFrench troops within the Flanders area can hold back the Germans now that some 20 miles of battle front on the northern flank have been given to the Germans. Gen. Weygand thus has to consider whether to order an Allied withdrawal in force or to launch a great ipajor coun-ter-offensive. It might seem better judgment to effect a Vithdrawal, since a counter-offensive would mean enormous lgsses to the French with no adequate gain that is yet apparent. Whether the Channel ports still are open to a British, retirement back to England, following King Leo’ capitulation is not yet known. But a swing southwestward, in the form of a semi-circle, would seem ‘a possible way of retreat, the pivot being the newly established French posifions in thé vicinity of Valenciennes. German occupation of the Channel coast, ih would be the consequence of this maneuver, would represent the end of the present phase of the war. The Germans would then be hemmed in, with their own |in backs to the Channel. Presumably they would try to make some gestures toward an “invasion” of England. What super-Napoleonic plan Hitler may have for so gigantic a task has not been revealed. Whatever|it is, it re-

Leopold's Second Tra

Mr. Mason

| mains on paper and a long way from actuality. |

France Will Win—Reynaud

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and, when the Allied leader visited [of Dunkirk—all battered by thouhim by airplane last week. sands of Nazi air bombs—are now But, it was understood, the King|in the immediate path of the German offensive. ‘Reynaud’s radio statement, as well as authoritative | explanations in London, indicated that the Allied forces would make no further attempt to hold their lines. on Belgian territory, and indicated the gravest outlook for the trapped Allied Armies unless a. real counteroffensive can be launched from the River Somme front.

Worst Blow Thus For

useless to continue. The Cabinet

Debate Fate of Congo

Then, according. to French the King proceeded to

One’ alleged version of the King attempted to get an armistice which would have frozen the armies where

mans.

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'|dark days were coming. They come.

they stood and prevented the surrender of the Belgian - Army although it would have been disarmed. i ? Hitler, however, refused such terms, it was reported, and ordered the immediate occupation of -all Belgian territory and seizure of supplies. The fate of the rich Belgian

| Congo aroused interest here. 1t was |said by Belgian officials, however, 2| that the Congo became a part of

of the Belgian State in 1908 and that the King could not hand it

'| over to Hitler.

There was some speculation on whether the throne might be gbolished. Military Situation Critical

Despite the determination of France to fight on “until victory,”

in| the critical military plight of the

Allies in the north already had heen made worse by the capitulation of almost 500,000 Belgians on orders of thie King. In oreptOns, bitter “words

oy France will yet triumph, Rey-|

|naud declared.

“This is without precedent in ise tory,” the Premier said. We ow We will hold the SommeAisne Line and because we hold. it we will win, “Our faith in victory is intact. We shall conquer.”

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and Ostend and the

It was the hardest blow the Allies had suffered since the start of the German blitzkrieg May 10, a blitzkrieg that now had approached the peak of fury with the Germans hurling ever more powerful forces into the battle without regard to their terrible losses. There had been no such supreme gamble with the lives of men since the battle of Verdun in 1916. Entire German units were wiped out, it was asserted, in furious, blind frontal attacks on the Belgian and other Allied positions. As one unit was moved down, another, even more powerful, took its place. Ever since Sunday, the Germans kad been attacking in waves, ceaselessly, ever in more powerful number and equipment. It was now revealed that they had driven across the Lys on a 25-mile front under cover of a terrific bombardment which indicated that at last their big guns had reached a support position for the massed infantry which the Germans like to use. The Allied line on the Somme and Aisne Rivers and, to the east, the Maginot Line, was now the Allied lifeline. On its retention depended the fate of the British and French armies.

UNION UPHOLDS F. D. R.

The United Rubber Workers,| .

Local 110, has voted to condemn the recent criticism of President Roosevelt by the Indiana State Industrial Union Council, President Neal E. Godwin announced: today. Similar action defending the President was

The Belgian ports of Zeebrugge Ftench

taken Sunday by the United Auto Council 10, District 3; :

port! Workers

HOOVER LEADS 6. 0, P. CHARGE. OF U.S. LAXITY

Hoover Leads in Criticism; Administraion ‘Makes Sharp Protest.

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there is keen competition, Republicans and Democrats volunteer in a great unit to save our country. .ational defense and foreign relations are not a party issue. Their administration usually is.”

Others Rap Policies

But other speakers hit hard at Roosevelt policies and national defense performance. Frank Gannett, candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, said in Portland, Ore., that Mr. Roosevelt was conducting a “political blitzkrieg” in the course of which “he had’ “deceived the country.” Wendell Willkie, president of Commonweaith and Southern Corp. and P. nomination, speaking at Wilmington, Del., called for modification of restrictions and regulations upon private industry. The best army the nation could enlist, he said, would be to enlist 10,000,000 unemployed in

_| productive jobs.

District ~ Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, pursuing the Republican nomination in Dallas, Tex. said that the New Deal for seven years had ‘waged war “agaihst business and every vital and productive force in the nation,” and charged that men who understood industrial problems had been driven from the councils of the Administration. He esfimated that inadequate prepared would require about $7,000,000,0( a starter. . A non-partisan national defense board with “real power and full authority” to plan and direct the: rearmament program should be: established jnmediately, Mr, Dewey said. 2

Hoover Offers 7-Point Program | Mr. Hoover, in New York, criticized the “partisan flavor” of the President’s’ Sunday address, and noted that although Adolph Hitler

.|rose to. power in Germany and

European rearmament was at its height during the Roosevelt Ade ministration, the nation still ‘was unprepared. He listed seven essentials of an efficient organization for “real Pre- ‘| paredness.” They were: “1, That a munitions administration be created in Washington. “2. That it should have a single-

headed administration with assist-

ant heads for labor, agriculture and industry. “3, That the administrator should be an industrialist and not a politician.

[Could Appoint Board

“4. That he should have authority to appoint a non-partisan advisory board representing the Army, Navy, labor, transportation, manufacturing |. and agriculture. “5, That the whole of the purchasing and manufacturing for the Army and Navy from private industry should be done by this Administrator. The business of the Army and Navy to state what they want. It itor ‘the munitions administrator te’ deliver it. “6. That a research organization should be-‘created to constantly improve these products. “7. That all appropriations for such work should be made to this organization.” > Stresses Organization

“We do not want 50,000 planes put away in hangars. These planes would be obsolete in a year. I do not suppose this is the President's proposal.

an organization capable of bringing ab ut a co-ordination in Americal try that can Produce 50,000 airplanes in a year if they were called to do it. “If we could demonstrate that we could supply the Army and Navy with 4000 planes during a single] month, that would be ample notice to the world to keep off our grass. Likewise, we need an organized capacity to Produce Yanks and other arms.”

CHANNEL NOW OURS, GERMANY BOASTS

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strain on Franco-British political ties. “The time is ripe for the French to demand a halt to this wasteful

The situation of the French and ‘British expeditionary forces in Belgium, now estimated by the Germans as totaling 400,000 men, was described by the -Germans as “desperate.” ] German forces expected to capture Zeebrugge and Ostend without much, if any, opposition. That would leave the French and British occupying a slim finger of territory hardly more than 20 miles wide and stretching 60 miles from Dunkirk to Templeuve. ;

Term French Position Perilous ’

The Germans regarded the position of France as a whole, as “ex~ tremely perilous” and it was said that as result of the heavy fighting in the Valenciennes area the French will lese their elite shock troops and as a result will be left with an insufficient number of men of first line caliber to withstand a

Somme. It was claimed that France would be in no position to withdraw troops from the Maginot Line,

from her southeastern border or

from her colonies. The High Command’s communique indicated that the Germans were striking hard in France as well as through Belgium to the Channel Coast. The communique said that on the southern front enemy tank attacks were repelled successfully and that

30 enemy tanks had been destroyed.

. Allied air losses yesterday were placed at 91 planes and the Germans admitted the loss of 23 planes.

GAYDA PRAISES LEOPOLD

ROME, -May 28 (U. P.) ~Virginio Gayda, authoritative editorialist of the Giornale D’Italia, praised King Leopold of Belgium today for what

he called a “lofty and human” act in surrendering

“What we need in:Washington is|

pointless struggle,” it was said. :

bloc.

—and intended to march into southea Europe if Italy entered the

war ‘and moved on ony ~Balkan | state.

It was even reported that Balkan states might have agreed in principle to permit Russian troops: to cross their frontiers on the way to the ‘Adriatic if Italy entered the war. Jugoslav sources here asserted that it was nearly certain’ that Russia and 'Jugoslavia. would resume formal diplomatic’ relations soon, for the first time since the World War, as a sequel to their new trade agreement. The recent visit to Bulgaria of Sir Hughe Montgomery KnatchbullHugessen, British. Ambassador to Turkey, and Britain’s_ decision to send Sir Stafford Cripps, -left-wing Labor Party leader, to Moscow as. special envoy, were linked here with the reports regarding Russian activity, and were believed to mean that the Allies would approve fully any active Russian interest in the Balkans. Hungary's anxiety seemed plain, Not only had she called up reservists in the Budapest area and in the Paxs area of southern Hungary but it was reported that she was contemplating the requisitioning of many private motor vehicles. for army use. A meeting of the National Defense Council has been called for tomorrow. To complicate the! situation, it was reported that Slovakia, said

Bitter Days Nesr=Lon

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. kirk—now reported in flames under German air bombardment—to England. Both choices appeared extremely hazardous if not impossible.

The Belgian capitulation meant that the Germany Army was given an parently open road around the Allied left flank to Bruges

‘| (which the Germans said they were

approaching), and the Belgian ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend.

Supply Lines Failing

This advance, designed to join up up with German mechanized units that had swung around the Allied armies to Botilogne, Calais: and St. Omer, was co-ordinated with massive German frontal attacks on the Allied line from Menin, in the Lille sector, to the Valencinnes area and in the Douai region. (Berlin claimed advances on all of these fronts today, with Valencinnes, Douai-and Orchies taken.) British experts emphasized that it had become increasingly difficult to supply Allied forces in north France and Belgium because of German capture or destruction by air bombing of Channel ports. | The port of Calais, although Allied forces still hold out there, was described as unusable and Dunkirk" was said to be aflame. | Belgian refugee leaders were sharp)? in their comment on | the King’s capitulation. It was disclosed authoritatively, that British troops caught in Boulogne in the German coastal advance had’been evacuated to England—presumably late last week— by about 10 Besiroyert “under a Hellish fire.”

R. A F. Destroys 19 Planes

Meanwhile, the Air Ministry said that Royal Air Force fighters yesterday destroyed or severely damaged 79 German airplanes “in the ! Pa

STRAUSS SAYS:

Hungary Adds to Army.

BUDAPEST, Hungary; May 28 (U. P.).—Hungary called additional arnly reservists to. the colors today and sped mobilization in apparent fear of isolation by a Russisan-formed, Allied-approved Balkan buffer

Duce May Tell Plans

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Balkan diplomatic quarters reported that Russia was forming a chain of buffer states in the Balkans—Rumania, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia

now to be on the most friendly |

terms with Russia, was showing

‘|signs of increasing hostility to

Hungary. It was reported that tension had increased on the

Hungarian-Slovakian frontier within

the last 24 hours and that an incis dent of some sort had occurred. Belief was even expressed that as part of the reported Russian move Rumania might cede part or all of Bessarabia, which it obtained from Russia after the 1914-1918 war, with the approval of the Allies.

For War June 4 . 4

ROME, May 28 (U. P.).—Premige Benito Mussolini may tell his| plan for war to his Council of Minister meeting June 4, it was re q today. At that time, it was learn

an important decision Italy’s position with relation t war. It also was regarded

all the preparedness measures Italy has taken, and give ‘a count; of the full extent

‘Mussolini was expected to ee i

best day’s work since the in of the Low Countries.” raid warnings were so on the southeastern coast of| Engs land and in East Kent around noogi today, but the all-clear signal wad given half an hour later. Residents of the en coast

said that terrific anti<aircraft firg lasted 10 minutes. One plane wag seen to fall into the sea, it pe said

‘BELGIAN SURRENDER: UNSETTLES MARKETS

By UNITED PRESS

" The Belgian Army capitulation today upset world markets and brought wide declines into Stocks, ‘bonds, commodities’ and foreign currencies. After the first shock, some were made from the lows. : A summary of various markets: .Stocks in New’ York opened on sales ranging to 10,000 shares at losses ranging to more tl 5 points, extended the losses an steadied. War issues—steel crafts, chemicals, coppers, were hardest hit.

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3,200 ,000 shares, for a full session. - Belgian bonds broke as much as six points, or $60 a $1000 bond. Ger-" man bonds had gains rang point, or $10 a $1000 bond. Wheat lost 2 to 3 cents a on all North American exchanges, Cottort opened with losses ranging ‘to mopé than $2 a bale, ahd [recove ered /partially. on . Hifles had declines of as much as 100 i Copper lost 33; to 353 rubber, 43 to 55; wool, 28 {to 32;

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