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~ FLANDERS BATTLE
Odds Against Estimated 200,000 British and French Who Continue to Fight Nazis Described As 100 to 1.
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split into small bands, living
in what survivors called the
“Hell of: Flanders,”| might escape death or capture were estimated at not 1 in 100 before the fog set in. | Regardless of odds, the fight went on.
Italy) Expected
to Enter Soon
' Under a blizzard of bombs and bullets British Expeditionary Force troops had dug in on a new defense line protecting Dunkirk, Appropriately it was christened the “Corunna” Line— ah echo of the Napoleonic wars when Sir John Moore in 1808 in similar desperate circumstances fought an heroic rear guard action at Corunna, Spain, which saved the bulk of his expeditionary command. There seemed little chance that any appreciable proportion of those left eduld estape but the British seemed prepared to hold the Corunna Line as long as hope existed that any Allied remnants could cut their way through to the sea.
Seek Weflge Between France, Britain
With the Flanders chapter ‘in its final episode a new phase of the war appeared to be imminent. Reports from British sources persisted that all hope of keeping ltaly out of the war had gene and that Italian entry at Germany's side
must be expected at any time. an move,
it seemed certain, will be a
stroke at London or Paris or both. German propaganda. agencies gushed with a new torrent of stories, charging all manner of cruelties and atrocities against the French. | is propaganda drive was not clear. Pre-
viously, German propaganda
had left the French strictly
alone or concentrated on efforts to drive a wedge between
Britain and France.
Some suggested that the Germans were
trying to mask their next move by arousing suspicions that
it would fall upon France.
A feint at Paris might then be
made while the real German power was hammered home at
England. Reports circulated that
nouncement but there was no
Prionazands Minister Joseph
- Goebbels had been urgently summoned to Chancellor Adolf " Hitler's field headquarters to
prepare some important anofficial confirmation.
The sinking of an Allied destroyer and five scattered Allied planes was claimed and loss of two German planes
was admitted.
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More Allied Planes Are Needed
British military quarters
denied that the Germans had
been able to inflict large casualties on evacuating Allied
‘troops.
Returning members. of the B. E. F. had one unanimous
comment on Flanders. more planes.”
It was: “For God's sake, give us hey ‘agreed that the British air force was
superior plane for plane and pilot for pilot, to the ‘German air machine but said that quantity was needed to cope with
the great German air fleets.
On the home front in England whirlwind preparations E
for the expected German blow continued. Scotland Yard raided all warehouses along the Thames, looking for sacret caches of arms. Guide posts were removed from Highways lest they aid German parachutists. | Golf clubs were orcered to dig up fairways where German planes might®and. An echo of the war was heard in Buenos Aires where students rioted in the streets against the German torpedoing of the Argentine freighter Uruguay and reported German
Fifth Column activity.
‘Never Such
Battle’ —Paris
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thrust at the German rear might be
. of much importance.
The official analysis said that previous reports that German airplanes had bombed and sunk two British hospital ships off Dieppe had been
‘*“conflrmed.”
Reports described the 200-square mile area, on and in from the Flanders coast, as likesa great volcano, ‘and military . experts asserted that there never had been a bat-
‘tle in all world in which so many |w
men and machines were fighting in such a small region. Never, they said, was it likely that there had been such intensity of fire and such use of destructivec weapons to. the square mile. The Allies succeeded, it was now known, in opening the. Yser joes sluices and flooding the are from Nieuport. They held the ser
'MORGENTHAU URGES 'REARMAMENT TAXES:
WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. PJ. ~ Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, told the House ways and Means, Confittee today that new taxes and expansion of the debt limit dre essential to an orderly financing of national re-
armament. Mr. Morgenthau testified in support of a “super tax” bill introduced by Chairman Robert L, Doughton. The measure would permit a $3,000,000,000 increase in the national debt above the present $45,000,000,000 limit and would raise an estimated $656,000,000 in new revenue
River line. It was known that they had succeeded in flooding an area south and southeast of Dunkirk, to hold off any attack from the German Channel wedge side.
{It was still a race between the French fear guard and the Gerans attacking from the Bruges direction, only 30 miles away from Dunkirk. But it was between Bruges and Dunkirk that the British and rench were holding the Yser Line ile the lost army fought its way. .There was a narrow corrifor witb by still for [the French rear guard in the Lille pocket. Mothers and fathers, sweethearts, children all over France waited for ws of the men who were fighting, many of them wounded, against Germans massed on three sides of n|them and threatening to close in on the e fourth side.
by adding\ 10 per cent to most existing taxes. “The orderly financing; of Faderal expenditures, expanded as they are by emergency expenditures for national defense requires provision of additional taxes or an increase in the limit on the national debt,” Mr,
Morgenthau said. 2 my judgment botl are ess: inial.” - Mr. Doughton’s bill would. make the increased taxes effective for five years. The revenue would be carmarkd to retire defense bonds.
Mr. Morgenthau said that the —
Treasury now estimates that the deficit for the fiscal year 1941" will
amount to $3,703,000,000, Borroviing| power remaining under the present} debt limit is but $1,973,000,000, he
said.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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Germans close in on remnants of the Allied “Jost Army.” English Channel and Flanders coast, however, a rain of bombs and machine gun fire today,
of F landers
Times Telephoto. Along the
ay be the long awaited
“miracle” which ,will allow other thousands of the hemmed-in forces to
escape.
British Prove Navy's Value In Brilliant Coast Stand
"By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert ) The success of the retreat of the Allied | forces from Flanders is reaching = proportions that shows the great power of naval co-opera-tion in coastal defense has not been oestroyed by attacking airplanes. Operations, of the Anglo- -French warships off ‘Dunkirk and eastward are being brilliantly directed. The supplementary protection| afforded them by the Allied counter-of-fensive “in the air has slowed down| German
attempts surs round remnant British and
French divisions a to a point where ‘Mr. Mason it has been impossible for Hitler to spring his trap. The success of the Allied retreat across’ the Channel in the face of a German aviation blitzkrieg marks an important advance in defensive strategy. The Allied warships have had to move very slowly up and down the French and Belgian foagisl waters and even to come to t times in order to meke their ost re effective. . Thus, they have offered themselves as ideal targets for the German airmen. Ship Losses Not Serious™
Yet, the Germans have riot been able| to interrupt the evacuation of the [retiring troops in any major manner, nor have the Allies suffered serigus losses in ships. The escape of thousands of troops fromm Dunkirk is well compared by the British to the famous retreat to Corunna British Army during Great ain’s operations against Napoleon, in Spain. The Dunkirk retirement, in fact, has! much more importance than the | Corunna operations because it will now be necessary for naval specialists to revise previous ideas that airplanes might become the masters, of warships in a major confict Detween them. It is evident that the German planes have failed to drive the Allied vessels away from the FrancoBelgian coast though conditions had been believed by the German High Command to be very favorzble for su an enterprise. Warship Hardto Hit
n air offensive against an army nih field is more destructive than against warships, because the ene y troops are massed and present far larger targets. A warship, even of [large tonnage, is very ‘difficult to [hit from a great height because it |ig” not conspicuous. - This is a fundamental reason for the failure of | the Germans to entrap the Allies at Dunkirk. Reports from London numerous small craft carrying troops and refugees across the ch 1annel, even towing barges being ed to help in the conveyahce. The of such inconspicuous ships is part of the Allied plan to interfere with the visibility of the German aviators and accounts, in part, for the success of the retreat by sea. The -Allies’ warships are affording effective. _protection ‘to many of the remaining troops who are fighting their way to the coast. The continuous barrage from the big guns has permitted the Allies to re-estab-lish a new battle line through which the Germans would be able-to penetrate only at very heavy cost. The Germans have not shown any desire tp the présent to take this risk. | It has been the strategy of the Germans, since the surrender of the Belgian King, to save their infan--
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try, as far as possible. The Germans have been using tanks and airplanes as their major offensive units in the past two days, hoping to“cut off and surround detachments of the retreating French and British without the heavy casualties that would accompany infantry offensives. But: the backbone of an Army is the infantry. Tanks and airplanes, not adequately supported by marching regiments, have been demon-
2 | strating in the past 48 hours of E | fighting that they cannot overwhelm
a resolute enemy. ‘The Allied re-
q| treating remnant i& reported to be
fully mechanized so that its defensive strength is still very considerable. : Many more of the Allies seem destined to get out of the uzclosed
[trap at Dunkirk. London declares
fresh supplies of munitions are being sent to Dunkirk, which shows that the retreat is being conducted as an organized rear guard action on a large scale and is not a disorderly retirement. Much new data about offensive tactics has been learned from the German success in Flanders. Equally new principles of defense and successful retreat are now coming to light through the tactics of the Allies in rescuing themselves from the German trap.
MNUTT SAYS HE'S STILL ‘CONTENDER
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Marion giuty prosecutor, is being groomed a potential dark horse to stop~the conflict between Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker and R. Earl Peters. At present the former Indiana Governor’s only plans are to remain at his post Here, he said. There have been many stories circulated that he might be elevated to the Cabinet and given either the War or Navy Secretaryship. Such advisers as Senator Sherman Minton, Wayne Coy, Mr. McNutt’s administrative assistant, and Fowler Harper, Federal Security counsel and former Indiana University law school professor, are said to have advised him to make the third term statement when he still was campaigning in the West and the war crisis occurred. °* Full text of the McNutt statement follows: “The nation’s welfare, now dependent upon total preparedness to avert the threat of total war, requires that President Roosevelt conue as the Chief Executive.
ificant in view of.the danger r security, and the hopes or desires of any individual must be subordinated to the national interests. “It is true that there are able men" in both parties who are capable of directing the affairs of the nation under ordinary circumstances, but the emergency which faces us is so critical that it requires the strong leadership and wealth of experience in world affairs that the President alone can provide. “At every cost, America must maintain a unity and solidarity which will enable us to throw our entire strength into the task of preparing to face a hostile world, The country is behind the President and his foreign policy. It believes that in his leadership lies the best hope of peace. I am confident that I expréss the sentiment of a large majority of our citizens in saying that I want Franklin Roosevelt as the next President of © the United
strike at Paris or London, the High Command reported final attacks in progress against Allied units. The main fighting zones were: 1. Around Dunkirk, where the Germans said they had battered the fiercely resisting British rear guard back over flooded .canals to a line based on Bergues and Furnes—only 10. miles from the burning port which again was attacked by Nazi airplanes. 2. Around Cassel, where the British forces from the southern part of the German trap attempted to fight their way through to Dunkirk but were “annihilated” by the Germans. It was in this sector that the Nazis yesterday reported the capture of the French Gen. Rene Prioux and his staff—a report which the French said” they could neither deny nor confirm. 3. A main but not definitely %- fined circle drawn by the German
in which “the main force of French troops have been annihilated or captured” except for “surrounded units which are still resisting in a
. |few places.”
The High Command said that so many prisoners and so much booty
mates were impossible. There was still no definite indi-
ee whether Adolf
thick fog preventing a
armies in northeastern France and
had been taken that accurate esti- bn
THOUSANDS OF BRITONS HOME FROM. DUNKIRK
Rescue Ships Steam Across Channel as ‘Rear Guard’ Holds Flanders Line.
LONDON, May 31 (U. PA.—A new rescue armada of hundreds of ships sailed into Dunkirk harbor and embarked additional thousands of trapped British and French soldiers while Allied rear guard troops were “fighting like cats” to hold off the Germans, it was stated authoritatively today. Returning members of the de\feated British expeditionary force in Flanders—thousands of whom have been evacuated safely from Dunkirk, according to authorities here— said the Anglo-French forces still were holding théir modern “Corunna Line” in the triangle based on the Channel and that the Germans were losing five men for every Allied soldier killed. .
troops, badly beaten by Napoleon, who had 70,000 men, fell back on Corunna, Spain, and effected one of the greatest and most strategic retreats in history under Sir John Moore.) Half of the original British expeditionary force of from 300,000 to 350,000 men was reported safely home, stream back from the fighting front in Flanders.
Fight Like Heroes to Last
The survivors brought with them stories of heroic fighting by the Allied troops and huge casualties suffered by the Germans. / Scores of boats of all types were constantly bringing in more troops and shuttling back to the Flanders coast for new loads. Military sources denied German claims that the British Army was fleeing to the coast in disorder. Thousands of the B. E. F., after
ariving on the coast, passed through London today. en route to their homes on 48 hours special leave.
Cry for More Planes
All said that the cry had been “for God’s| sake, give us more planes.” : Under a deadly fire of German aerial bombs and machine gun bullets, those men of the British Expeditionary| Force and the French Northern Army, with those of the Belgians who had scorned their King’s order submit themselves to Germany, ‘came home to tell the
glorious fight. Unable to Forget
Although exhausted’ and with the flaming horror of their ordeal still blazing in their minds, they I've to fight again. But for many of dels comrades, there was no way ou The Admiralty announced that the anti-aircraft ship Curlew had been sunk by a German bomb attack some days ago off the northern coast of Norway with a loss of nine men, It also announced that seven. officers agd| 105 men were missing and presumed dead from the destroy Gloworm which was sunk April also in Norwegian waters.
. Nation Appears Moving Left
Meanwhile, London prepared for an expected German totalitarian attack, and Great Britain appeared today to be moving leftward toward many objectives of socialism, under the impact of the sweeping powers granted the Government to prosecute the war. Already talk was being heardsof a British ‘New Deal” under the influence of. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Maj. Clement Attlee, Labor leader who is virtually second in command in the coalition Government. Some of the changes stem directy from the dictatorial law placing all persons ands property in Britain under state control. Drastic educational reforms expected in June. include raising the compulsory school age from 15 to 17, New harsh taxes are expected, wgparticularly on upper bracket incomes and inheritances—already subject to the highest rates in the world. Flat confiscation—a 100 per cent tax—has already been imposed on all incomes from business, trade, industry or professions above the average or two, years in the group 1935-36-31.
_ STREAMLINE NEW DIVISION WASHINGTON, May 31 (U.P.).— The War Department today announced that a new division of highly mobile infantry, to be known as the Fourth Division, will be organized at -once with headquarters at Ft. Benning, Ga. “The new division is #he last to be “formed of six streamlined divisions previously planned. | These are being largely motorized.
Weather Balks Nazis
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strike at England or at Paris as sooh as German positions in Flanders can be cofisolidated, although the official news agency emphasized that submarine warfare aiready was being renewed against England on a large scale from new and better bases in the Low Countries. . ‘The German press was Jougest in its attacks on France, publishing a flood of atrocity stories charging tnat the French colonial troops had teated German prisoners inhumanI. This appeared to indicate that the French would be the next to feel the full weight of G&man armed power. An authorized source, commenting on the statys of King Leopold since his surrender of the Belgian Army, said that the monarch was a prisoner of war and that Germany regarded him as the captured commander of an army, rather than as a prisoner King. Another Allied warship—described as a destroyef—was reported sunk by a German torpedo boat off the coast of Belgium after the Nazi naval forces moved into the coastal regions of Holland and Belgium up d.
Er dish Admiralty yesterday
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LONG LIVE RUSSIA, SLAV STUDENTS CRY
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, May 31 (U. P.).—Police today dispersed students shouting “Long Live Soviet Russia,” when . M. Laventrentrieff, Soviet Minister to Bulgaria, arrived from Sofia to exchange ratifications of the recent Soviet-Jugoslav economic agreement. Police placed strong guards around the Hotel Srbski Kral where Lavrentrieff and the members of his party were staying. : Ratification was regarded as emphasizing Russia's determination to maintain status quo in the Balkans and increase the Russian influence in Balkan trade channels.
BERLIN, May 31 (U. P).—A German trade accord was signed at
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 31 U. P.).—James Bryant Conant III, son of Harvard’s president, proResly will enter Princeton fext all The director of admissions at Harvard said young Conant had applied for admission to Prince= ton because he thought he “would not be able to enjoy a normal college life because of his father’s position.”
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