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Allies ‘Hail Troop

J NAZIS HURLED BACK "ON SOMME FRONT

Evacuation as ‘Triumph’ as War

~ Council Repeats ‘No Separate Peace’ Vow; : Berlin Indicates New Thrust.

oer] ‘bombers had sunk five Allied

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transports and badly damaged

three warships and 10 mervhans vessels and that the last

French resistance in Flanders mans claimed to have repulsed a French counter-blow near|

ad been broken. The Ger-

Abbeville, at the mouth of the River Somme, and said progress had been made in attacking the last British lines before

Dunkirk—from which Allied ated.

troops still were being evacu-

5. The London Air Minister reported that British planes had sunk a German torpedo boat, destroyed or damaged 66 German aivplanes and strongly bombed German positions in

north France.

6. Reports in England were that only about one British ~ division—probably 15,000 men—remained to be evacyated

from. Flanders.

That would indicate that the greater part of perhaps 800,000 B. E. F. troops and many French and Belgian sol © -" diers had been safely withdrawn from the German trap by ‘a miracle of naval, air and Army co-operation aided by fog.

Follows German Warnings

The German attacks which the French said they repulsed along the Somme front were described in Paris as a * serious attempt to counteract recent gains there by the

French troops and by British expeditionary forces which]

« were not in the Flanders battle or have since been sent over

as reinforcements.

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‘The Nazi thrusts followed German warnings that a new and greater offensive would soon be launched, possibly witi the aid of Italy, in an attempt to end the war.

The Allies admitted they

had lost the Flanders battle,

but they were inspired to new determined resistance by the brilliant withdrawal through Belgium and Northern France to the coast in the face of steadily advancing German Armies

and swarms of German hombe

Some British sources said the Germans losses were estimated as high |

men in Flanders. The Allied as 150,000.

Is. : had lost 500,000

| - Where and when Adolf Hitlet-would strike next was his secret, and perhaps Benito Mussolini's, too, because the Germans hinted that Italy’s entry into the war on their side

was assured and might come Hint France Although Hitler long has

as early as next week. May Be Goal threatened a German invasioa

of Great Britain, responsible military sources in Berlin hinted that France might be his immediate goal.

The German warning tha dertaken soon, coincided with Italy had completed her war lini was ready fo make a “d meeting of the Grand Fascist

Allies Pledge

t a new offensive would be unRome dispatches saying that preparations and that; Mussoecision” on Tuesday before a Council. :

Unity Anew

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with a violent bombardment by field artillery. . Next the roaring Stuka dive bomber§ swept over the French lines. Then came massed tanks, and finally the infantry in the massed formations which the Germans had favored in the last war. Again and again, at selected points on the Somme front, but particularly between Amiens and the Abbeville sector on the sea, the Germans attacked in force, only according to official asserations, to be thrown back without gain. Two big attacks, it was disclosed, had been defeated yesterday. : A fierce artillery bombardment preceded the first attack yetserday. The infantry started over. But the famous French 75's were in action and their fire was so intense, it was asserted, that the attacking force was almost wiped out. Additional tanks and dive bombers

were sent into the second German

attack. Again, the 75s, using shrapnel which burst over the heads of the German infantrymen, tore the attacking - force to pieces, it was said, and obliged the Germans to retire even behind their jumping off places. vi t This morning, it was said, the Germans attacked on three sectors, only to be hurled back again as they had been yesterday. The War Office analyst said that the troops at Dunkirk were still receiving supplies of food and munitions for their stand. He said that the position of tire. lost French army was critical but it was evident he had not given up all hope for much of it. A French force of unknown strength, had made the last stand,

in the Lille pocket. It was given up for lost today. Military experts said frankly that although additional men of the lost army had broken through to the coast, it was inevitable that after such a march some men had been -dispersed and some wounded had been left, to become German prisoners. On the coast, in the Dunkirk {area, British and French troops, | strongly fortified behind water de- | fenses along the Yser and south and !southeast of Dunkirk, held off the Germans while Allied warships offIshore blasted death fay’ into the {German lines from their big guns. | About 60 miles to the south, the | French army on the Somme, relinforced by the strong remainder of the British expeditionary force which had not taken part in the march into Belgium, was getting restive and had retaken most of the Abbeyville area in a two-day secret operation.,

MERCY LINER TO SAIL FOR U. S. TOMORROW

DUBLIN, Ireland, June 1 (U. P.). —The United States rescue liner President Roosevelt arrived at Galway last midnight and was met by consular and police officials who supervised the loadin gof supplies and fresh water. Tie Roosevelt, which is expected to sail early tomorrow, already has taken aboard ‘750 Americans who had been living in = Britain and France. ¢ Hotels in Galway were filled to capacity with American refugees waiting to board the ship.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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= Here 1 DEATHS TO DATE

County Total 1939 ....c000cc00 19 FO .oe.ees-er- HB. May 31, 1940 ." ¥| Arrests .... 0 | Accidents ...

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Violations Speeding ....... Reckless -4 Failure to through street. 10 . Disobeying traffic ’ :

Tried .tions Paid 22 21 $132 ; 18

Al others....... 21 28

_ Totals ........ 14 67

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DEATHS

Anns M. Tompkins, 43, at 85 N. LaSalle, Pfonaty tuberculosis. Jennie Nay, 64, at Central Indiana, pulmonary tuberculosis. Catharine C. Bobbs, 39, at 4720 N, Pennsylvanja, myelosarcoma. bert Scott, 5, at Methodist, meninits.

rving Shaw, 48, at St. Vincent's, streptococeic septicemia. Elizabeth Mueller, ' 68, | at 2630 College, Bright!s disease. Mary Ellén Brodie, 82, at 3957 Ruckle,

uremis

L G. Forster, 73, at 5222 Guilford,

‘inoma. Abram Martin, 85, at 977 W. 26th, cérejemorrhage, illlazth Hendricks, 79, at 938 N. Miley, vascular renal, jos trude Williams, 74, at 2209 N, Ilicerebral ewiorrhage. n Howard, 39, at Methodist, tozem! La Bradburn, 64, at Long,

bridge, chronic myocarditis. = ed IE 124 8 Merle haries Kostenbader, 85, at (City, coroTederick Throm, 81, at Vetersns, mitral len, 79, at 2105 Allfree, broncho-

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stroyed or damaged badly in the last 24 hours. ; At the same time Health Minister Malcolm MacDonald announced that the Government regarded the danger of a German air attack on Britain as so real that plans for evacuation of school children should be as complete as possible by the beginning of next week.

Two Forces Remain

Britons asserted jubilantly today that the Allied Navy had rescued nearly four-fifths of the original British Expeditionary Force of the Army of the North, and tens of thousands of their French and Belgian allies. The feat of evacuating a great army—estimates of its numbers are still widely divergent and based on unofficial reports or guesses—was regarded as almost incredible. Paris . reported the shattered remnants of the French “lost army” in the Lille pocket, in an astounding last stand, was hacking its way to the sea and new life. : It was asserted officially that the greater part of this mechanized, motorized army had actually succeeded in forcing its way through and had joined the remainder of the Allied army behind the Dunkirk water line. The rest of the men had been given up for lost. They were completely ‘surrounded at one time. Many of them were wounded. All were nearing exhaustion. They were fighting in small and large groups as the Romans did, back to ba@ in

serted foday that though some of them must die, there was hope still for the rest. Except for these men—the smaller part of the French motorized Northern army—the Allied: rear guard, after a ‘historic fight, was now safe within the protective arc of the Dunkirk armed camp. For the last 24 hours, it was asserted, attack after attack had been resisted successfully, "while evacuation of the army as a whole proceeded.

| Swung in Wide Arc

More| than half the lost French Army, it was asserted, had swung in a wide arc northward (four words censored) and reached (one word censored) safely with no Germans between them and Dunkirk. Failing to break the Dunkirk arc, the Germans sent planes to bomb and machine-gun the beaches on which | Allied troops awaited embarkation. Allied losses, a War Office analyst said, were small. There had been a brief respite in the bombing because of bad weather. It was asserted that the Allies

for the present and that it would be for [the Supreme War Council to decide, eventually, whether the foothold should be maintained or the Dunkirk area evacuated. Hoping further to block transport, the Germans have béguu to drop magnetic mines from airplanes off Dunkirk. At Calais, in a rectangular area about $300 yards by 400 facing the sea, the Allied garrison was making a fight which inspired all Britain, fighting ceaselessly under a chok-

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly rloudy {tonight and tomorrow; warmer tombrrow. : } Sunsise 4:18: | Sunset TEMPERATURE —-June 1, 1939—

|| BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m... 20.98 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m..,

05 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 15.01 Daftiehey Since Jan, 1 .

Il MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer. tomorrow. Nlingis—Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy! and wamer. Low Michigan—Mostly “cloudy in east, partly [cloudy in west portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer. Ohio—Cloudy, preceded by showers in extreme east portion tonight; tomorrow fair, slightly warmer. ; Kentucky—Partly cloudy, showers in extreme east po tomorro east porti

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A British naval petty officer gives a wounded soldier a hand up the gangplank at a French channel port as Allied troops effected a “miracle” evacuation to England under severe German attack,

R.A.F.Bombers Drop Water ‘Flanders Hell

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ing, blinding pall of smoke from blazing buldings in the town. The story came out when it was disclosed that Royal Air Force bomber squadrons had dropped water, ammunition and grenades into the citadel yesterday. Taking off from English fields, the ‘great bombers carried the water in containers in their bomb racks, dropped it by means of parachutes, through rifts in the dense smoke clouds. : The British planes swept down daringly within 50 feet of the citadel, dropping their supplies, under a furious German anti-aircraft bombardment. One British plane was lost; most of the others were hit several times. . Men who took part in the flight said that the flames and. smoke made it difficult for them to fina the citadel. “So far as I could judge we passed right oyer the target, dropped our water in the citadel and immediately flew back over the Channel,” one officer said. “We saw one of our planes dive into the ground—after the pilot had dropped his water.

Drop Hand Grenades -

“I got off lightly. I had only two tracer bullets ‘in my plane's tail. The chaps following me had a far worse time. As I looked back I could see tracers flying in every direction. “I was leading 10 aircraft. We dropped our containers in the western part of the fort. We could see 10 other planes dropping loads in the eastern part.” Afterward, a fleet of 39 British planes, accompanied by dive bombers, flew over the citadel. The dive bombers attacked the - Germans while the other planes dropped ammunition and hand grenades in the citadel. ~ The British Navy claimed its planes have sunk a German torpedo boat off the Belgian “coast while Royal Air Force planes destroyed cr damaged 66 German plames ‘in the Dunkirk area.and bombed German land objectives mercilessly. British plane losses were put at 19. Fifty-six of the German planes were destroyed or damaged in fighting yesterday, and 16 British planes were missing, as the air force continued to screen evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, the Air Ministry said.

DUCE DIVERTS

ALL GASOLINE FOR WAR USE

Streets; Historic Decision Near. (Continued from Page One)

.|from Genoa, and went immediately

to the Brenner Pass. It probably will spend two days in the north and later go.to Berlin. : There has been close collaboration between Spain and Italy since the close of the Spanish Civil War, during which Italy gave Franco considerable aid. Mussolini will meet with his Cabinet on Tuesday morning. That night he will report to the Fascist Grand Council. It already has been

announced officially that the Cabinet meeting will have an important bearing on Italy’s position regarding the war. : Italy's preparations for war were believed now complete. Plans for the evacuation of cities in northern Italy already . have been made, and the army is ready to march. ; Hundreds of Americans crowded trains and highways to Genoa’ to catch the United States Liner Manhattan sailing at noon today.

Americans to Sail

Shipping officials said that more than 1800 Americans had booked passage on the: ship. What may prove to be the last American boat train left Rome last night for Genoa. Aboard it were hundreds of newly - called up recruits being rushed to northern defense posts. Among the passengers were mothers, wives and children of Ameri~ can diplomatic and consular officials, journalists, industrialists and business men who remained behind. There also were scores of priests returning to the United States from Vatican City.

was said tHat although there had been conversations in London and Rome, in collaboration with Ameri-

can diplomats, to have the Holy See attempt to persuade Italy to remain aloof, the attitude of Pope .Pius was that nothing more along that line could be done. - Japan was expected to offer Italy some aid in event Mussolini decides to enter the war, it was said. Gov. ernment officials and members of a Japanese commercial mission visiting here were understood to have reached an understanding whereby Japan would help Italy maintain Ethiopia economically. United States Ambassador William C. Phillips declined comment on reports that he had delivered a note from President Roosevelt to Mussolini, He denied that he had attempted to see Mussolini personally, saying he has not attempted to interview: the- Premier since the last time they conferred.

F. D. R. Reported in Touch With Duce.

ROME, June 1 (U. P.).—Officials declined today to confirm persistent rumors that Premier Benito Mussolini had been in communication with President Roosevelt by transAtlantic telephone. ‘oe It was rumored that they had several telephone conversations, speaking in both French English. = An. authoritative Ifalian. source said that relations between the Italian premier and President Roosevelt continued “most cordial.”

GRADUATES AT KENYON Times Special 3 GAMBIER, O., June 1.—Pierre B. Aiman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Wright, 1824 Dayton Ave. Indianapolis, will receive his bachelor of arts degree at the 112th commence-

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The War Today—

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert French operations in the Abbeville area seem to be a preliminary maneuver to interfere with a German drive on Paris, for which reason, the German High Command has ordered strong resistance. Any German effort to reach Paris must rely on rail ¢ 0 mmunications for vital assistance. If the Anglo~ French forces can hold the rail junctions. a German advance will be gravely impeded, if not wholly checked. Gen. Weygand shows Mr. Mason by his Abbeville operations that he believes the German$ may be preparing swing toward Paris, the Abbeville railhead as a main base of operations. Though the German armies, are now mechanized, in part, numerous divisions “of infantry have no adequate mechanical equipment ‘and need . railway transportation for rapid advance, as do also heavy guns. The main French railway running from Calais passes through Boulogne and follows the coastline to Abbeville, where it turns southeast to Amiens and then runs south to Paris. The coast line section could be made useless by Allied - warships which have shown their effectiveness in the past week at Dunkirk, But, Abbeville is sufficiently inland to be comparatively safe from such attack. Abbeville is connected with Lille by a light ‘railway, which continues southwestward 15 miles, where it meets an important railway line running directly to Paris, from the channel port of Treport. Ten miles farther along the coast is Dieppe, the terminus of another

railway to Paris,

Weygand Seems to ~ German Drive Toward Paris

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. If the Germans were to make Abbeville secure as their western flank movement against Paris, "and if operations from Abbeville ‘were to drive the French beyond the Treport and ey rail lines leading .to Paris, the defending Allied Armies have their left flank seriously endangered, This operation would greatly assist any main German push which might move along a wide flank south of the Somme. 'l Abbeville thus has important strategic value to he Cerna for a major offensive against Paris and to the Allies for defense reasons. The present operations there are not yet developing into a major battle. . The whole of the Somme area from the Channel to St. Quentin, one of the pivots of the German line, is more favorable to defensive than offensive operations, This fact applies especialy to the Somme River, itself, famous in

the difficulties of its crossing. The eriver turns and twists and has confusing currents, while its bed is soft. ! bis The fight for the south bank of the Somme, along- its entire length, from the sea to St. Quentin, where te German line bends southward, will be a more bitter conflict than the battle of Flanders, once the Ge! High Command gives the order for an advance on Paris. i Far more will be at stake than in the Flanders hostilities. An offensive against Palis, however, presumably may be timed to coincide with Italy's entry into the war if Hitler has nces from Mussolini that he | intends to join - the fighting, and if the Italian strategy” includes an immediate attack against France, which is not yet certain. One or the other- of these ob“jectives would impose sufficient strain on any army. A double | German offensive of this kind cannot be expected. One or the other should be Hitler's choice, in the making-of which, Italy's decision to keep the peace or declare

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Pilots of new-type fighter plane return from duty. :

Fliers of New 'Defiant' Ship Proud of Accomplishments

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explained that he did so because the Defiant is radically different from the Spitfires, Hurricanes and other fighters. i : The Spitfires and Hurricanes carry eight machine guns fixed in the wing. When the machine is about 250 yards from an enemy plane the pilot touches the triggers and the fire from eight guns converges on the target. The guns are fixed in the wing and can.only fire forward. The Defiant, ‘with a, fuselage shaped like a fish, has a “poweroperated tuerret” amidships. The gunner is seated in the turret behind a splinter-proof glass shell from which he mans four machine guns. The pilot is seated in front of the gunner, who can fire in all directions. Electric and hydraulic power helps him quickly to swing the guns which otherwise would be hard to move at high speeds. ; The Defiant, therefore, can attack from any direction: It can swogp alongside a squadron of bombers and rake them with lateral fire. : : ‘The squadron leader, who is short and spare and probably about 28, and a tall, gawky pilot about 24 told me how the Defiants and surprised the Germans in this week’s fights over France, “The Defiant looks like a Hurricane from a distance,” the leader said. “The Germans think we are

ward. They see us coming alongside and they think they are in a pretty position.” - The pilot, who is a flight lieutenant and credited with downing eight German planes on Wednesday, broke in with a broad grin, “and then we give ’em a tremendous burst. Oh boy!” : Then the squadron leader told the story of Wednesday's fighting in which the squadron claimed to have downed 38 German planes.

“We went out the first time about 3 p. m.,” he said. “Our job was to destroy bombers, but we soon found wé had to destroy fighters, too. We got nine Messer-

we got a Junkers 87. Went Out Again

~ “We went out again at 5:30, That time we did get bombers—18 Junkers 87's and one Junkers 88. We didn’t see any fighters that time.” “The leader said that'the German anti-aircraft fire was terrific and reached up to a height of 12,000 feet with a lot ‘of “tracer stuff” up ta 7000 feet. “But it is all pretty harmless,” he said. “We always stick together. If one fellow tends to chase anything we call him back right away. Yes, we use a radio telephone.” “The Germans try to use decoys to get us out of formation,” he said. “We know their decoy tricks now. We got onto them after a couple of patrols.” Talking to these youths in quarters which are’ more like a good

it was hard to realize that the war is only 15 minutes away.

Doze in Deck Chairs

Fliers were dozing in deck chairs in a kind of patio. Others were sprawled in a Cclub-like lounge listening to dance music coming over the radio. Then a group of them got up and put on their yellow lifebelts and went out vo the field to warm up their planes. While they were gone I looked at a Defiant which had landed flat on its belly withodt any landing gear, and at another which landed on one wheel. A Scotch mechanic said they were little the worse for that. “My stars!” he exclaimed, “What a ship! I've never seen such a job. She’s built like a \battleship.” : The mechanic showed us another Defiant which in Wednesday's fighting had been hit by at least three

Hurricanes and can only fire for-|

schmidt 109’s arid nine 110’s. Later |

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shells from Messerschmitts. All the covering was torn off the right elevator and most of the covering from the left. The right aileron was badly damaged. The pilot brought it home, however, but the gunner who thought the plane was doomed had bailed out over the fighting zone, - Then the Defiants and Hurricanes returned. The ground crews put in more gasoline, replac machih gun belts carrying bullets 10 inches long. Soon, the machines were ready to take off again. These youths have been going into battle two and three and sometimes four times a day, always coming back with thumbs up.

BUTLER'S SUMMER ~ PILOT QUOTA IS 45

The first local result of President Roosevelt's new national defense program came today with the announcement that Butler University’s quota for training students to fly under the Civil Aeronautics Authority has been set at 45 fot the summer months, | ry University officials had not expected to offer ayiation training during the summer session. |

the Butler” aviation courses, ceived a phone call from E, Davis, CAA official in Washington, adyiSing that the course will be

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open to any student who has had

previous college training. Students must be between 18 and 25. Ground training will be given at the university and flight instruction at the Municipal Airport. Upon completion of the course the students receive a Civilian Pilot Training Certificate enabling them to fly any place in the United States with one passenger. . a Registration for the course isto start at once, according to -Prof. George F. Leonard, director of the University summer session, and Dr. ‘Elliott /

PERFECTS LIGHT FOR SEAPLANE LANDING

The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. announced yesterday it had devised a buoy mounting a fluorescent light and controlled by radio ‘that could turn nearly every ocean, lake and river harbor in the United States into a night landing field for seaplanes. Experiments conducted at Anacostia Field in Washington with the aid of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the Civil Aeronautics Authority

produced a buoy that would hold the light apparently motionless on a sea running six feet high. The battery-powered fluorescent lights, which would last 300 hours without replacement, are visible from three to four miles away. Radio beams would be used to control the lights. Company engineers said the buoy would permit extensive night operations now impossible for overwater craft. For instance, they said, the one-day advantage from Europe to Buenos Aires’ over’ the flight from the United States to Buenos Aires could be overcome by use of the kuoy. Trans-oceanic routes which now take seven days can be

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formation could be given as to how

| |the Nelson was allegedly attacked

and sunk. They also refused to name any date; or to say whether the attack way by air or submarine or whether the ship hit ‘a mine. | They did say, however, that the sinking occurred recently.

| Claim Resistance Broken

and said today that the furious resistance of the last. remaining French troops in northeast France had been broken, In a single action around Lille,

the High Command said, the Ger-

mans so far have taken 26,000 prisoners, ; The High Command clairsed that the German attack on, the last British Expedi« tionary Force in the Dunkirk area was making ‘‘good progress” despite the difficult terrain and stubborn British resistance, i Claiming that (German planes were bombing many Allied planes in the North Sea off Dunkirk, the High Command said | that only mopping up action, remained to bring an end to the battle of Flanders. | The Germans said that they had sunk five Allied transports carrying troops from Dunkirk to British ports. In addition, it was claimed that three warships and 10 mier=

ch ships had been damaged badly. ¥ | ! The High Command! said that a

powerful’ Allied tank attack in the vicinity of Abbevi le, at the mouth of the Somme River close to the English Channel, had been repulsed and that in a counter-ate tack the Germans had gained new positions from where they expected to launch an offensive.

Report 49 Planes Down |

German fighting planes : were said to! have shot down 49 Allied airplanes in yesterday's fighting, Only nine German planes’ were ree ported missing. | | In the forests south of Abbeville, the High Command's communique said, the German Air Force had successfully bombed Allied troop concentrations. | Allied forces which had held a small bridgehead near "Lechesne, on the north bank of the Ardennes Canal, had been driven back over the canal to the south, the Gere mans said. that

German sources hinted France might feel the full fury of the German war machine next, and the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung echoed, “The outlook for the immediate future is very dark for the

| |Frenoch.”

No Separate Peace. Now The fact that France might be

‘Inext on Hitler's conquest list has

been stressed by unofficial spokes men and the press for days. Last week there had been reports that Germany had intended to offer a separate peace to France, but today a responsible source said that if there had been such a proposal it now: has been shelved. ; :

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