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; Churchill, who was reported preparing to invite the fiery World War Premier, David Lloyd George, to join the Cabinet, made a dramatic appeal to Britons to fight as never before. Hitler, he said, knows that he must break the British Isles in order to be victorious and probably must succeed before the hardships of ‘next winter threaten his conquests. Therefore, Churchill said, “let us brace ourselves and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire lasts a thousan years men will still say: This'was their finest hour.” »

The Prime Minister spoke against a swiftly moving . background in Europe, Hitler and Mussolini met at Munich

amid increasing Nazi demands for a “peace without sentimentality” for France—in other words, complete capitulation and division of the spoils. : German armies continued to drive deeply into French territory, having smothered the Maginot Line, broken up _ the retiring armies in many sectors and advanced toward a point intended to force the French to accept any terms offered. The French Cabinet still was in session at Bordeaux. Nazi Army Still Smashing On : Nazis said that the German Army smashing past the River Loire and approaching the great Krench Schneider munitions works at Autun would continue its advance regardless of the Munich conference in order to make it impossible for the French to reject the Axis peace proposals. Today's German High Command communique said that Frenth armies were collapsing rapidly, that the River Orne had been crossed at many points, that the important cities of Metz, Dijon, Belfort, Nevers, and Colmar had been cap--tured and 100,000 prisoners taken as a result of the encirclement and splitting up of the French armies from the Maginot Line to the River Orne and southward past mid-Krance. For the present, it was stated, only France's fate will be involved but the division of the spoils—including France's greaf colonigl empire of 3,791,000 square miles and 65,000,000 people—will probably involve a settlement with Spain and Japan. Monroe Doctrine Is One Issue

The fate of the ‘small French islands in ‘the American

hemisphere was of particular interest in view of the United

States Senate’s reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine. The fate of the French fleet remained undecided, but in the Near East, French Gen. Eugene Mittelhauser declared that the battle continues on land, on sea and in the air. Thus if the French finally sought to refuse the (German terms the British might be able to rally the Colonial forces, part of the air force and the navy of the defeated nation.. A French refusal of capitulation probably also would revive the British offer—made at the last moment in an effort to prevent French capitulation—of a complete union between the two:empires, creating a world-wide system of 18,000,000 square miles of territory and 608,000,000 popula-' tion. : British Ready to Carry On Alone

_ But the French had contacted the Italian Government

through the Vatican as well as the German ‘Government |

through Spain m an effort to end the fighting as soon as possible and the British were prepared to carry on the war alone. Detailed instructions as to what to do in case of invasion were ‘issued to all Britons, a meeting of parliamentarians was called to discuss proposals for arming every man, woman and youth and the British air force! renewed its challenge to the Germans by bombing the Ruhr and Rhine-

land industrial areas. 1 Fighting also continued in North « Africa, where the

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back into high gear on defense legislation today. The question of adjournment during the present emergency was a thing of the past. Congress will remain in Washington indefinitely, recessing for the Republican National Convention and again for the Democratic National Convention. The Senate met early to speed work on the House-approved billion-dollar-year defense tax bill. It de-

10 per cent cut in non-militaryy ex‘penditures, and the Townsend foreign silver purchasing program. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee prepared to report the Housé-adopted $1,706,000,000 supplemental defense bill which con- | tains funds for the Army and Navy, including money for shipbuilding, 3000 Army planes and bringing the Army’s enlisted strength to 375,000. President Roosevelt's Cabinet aids and economic advisers hurried work on his plan to weld the Western Hemisphere into a strong economic unit that would do business with the world as a single power, forcing the dictators to abandon barter in favor of cash dealings in the New World. The plan will be submitted to all of the 20 other American Republics and Canada for action in the near future.

Warning Given Against Western Hemisphere Seizure

The threatened break-up of the French Empire appeared today to have assured prompt Congressional approval of a resolution to put the United States on record against recognizing transfer of any Western Hemisphere territory from one nonAmerican nation to another.. The Senate passed the resolution yesterddy by a 76-to-0 vote as unofficial reports circulated that the totalitarian powers would divide up French colonies, includinz those. in

bated the Byrd Amendment for af

amendment to repeal the Treasury's |

sentimentality.” :

Official circles in both Rome and Berlin had made it clear that German and Ipalian forces would fight against France and her territories until issuance of a “cease fire” order to make sure that whatever terms they decide upon must be accepted by a prostrate France.

Talks May Be Short

- Indicating that the discussions would be short, an official source 'said that a communique would be issued tonight. Hitler and Mussolini were attended by their foreign ministers. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano, respectively, high military advisers and high Nazi and Fascist party officials. Honor guards of Hitler and Fascist youth were inspected by the two dictators before they rode in an open car through streets thronggd by cheering thousands wearing crossed Italian and German flags. Streets were decked with flags and the press of the throngs was so great that many fainted under a hot sun. The more stalwart sang war songs. -

German Press Bitter

They had greeted Hitler on his arrival this morning and then had waited patiently at the station and along the streets for Mussolini to arrive this afternoon. Hitler's journey to Munich marked the first time that he had been back from the front since the start of his offensive against France which culminated in a French request for the terms of a “peace with honor.” Official axis sources said that Hitlex and Mussolini did not want ven|geance, but the German press was {filled with accounts of the Versailles Treaty and statements that i“, . . the same men who now are leading France sought with every

Italians bombed the Great French naval base of Bizerta, and this hemisphere. Quick House pas- word and act to rob the German

renewed aerial attacks on Corsica and the British base at Malta. The British raided Itatian bases in Libya and took more prisoners. : ‘A London Daily Mail dispatch from Bordeaux said today that the French fleet had fought a major engagement with the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean and had inflicted serious losses on it. : The British Admiralty said that Italy had lost 230,000 tons of shipping since the war started. 2 hy The British Empire was tightening its military precautions throughout the world, and it was understood in London that some agreement had been reached with Eire to prevent German attempt to invade the British Isles by way o In far-away New Zealand, compulsory military

“ any Ireland. service was instituted.

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There were reports that Japan soon®might move against:

French Colonial possessions in the Far East, especially IndoChina. Diplomatic quarters in Shanghai heard that Japan

had concentrated 100,000 troops near Hainan Island, opposite] ¢ Indo-China. 4

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| by attacking Britain. The German from the great German cities with-

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losses in dead, wounded, and prisen- in reach of British bombers, which

the present have been very De An ene estimate of one million has been made by the British and French. : 5 : : e number may not reac at ae put there can be no doubt of the widespread mourning among German families throughout the whole of Hitler's Reich. A breaking point of the home front always begins when casualties mount high"er than the people judge to be

Pr attempt to repeat William the Conqueror’s landing in England would be enormously costly to Ger- - many. If pressed with the determi-

e blitzkrieg in France, nation of th even exceed

any’s continental losses, as ii were repelled by British shore batteries, | warships, and airplanes.

Tha improbability of .success in

he face of heavy losses might well er Hitler from risking so desperate a plan. Too, an air blitzkrieg against civilians would bring retaliation which could seriously weaken morale inside Germany. There have been no reports of extensive evacuations of children

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\may mean Hitler does not intend (to invite retaliatory attacks on ‘civilians. He might well say to the German people, however, that he intends to retaliate against Britain for trying to starve Germany into surrender by starving the British {Isles in turn, using the great German air armada following failure of the submarine blockade. Any such plan would call for mass attacks on British food ™‘1s, probably irv conjunction with such limited submarine operations as have been left to Hitler.

To the present, air operations against merchantmen have been successful only to an inconsequential extent because of the convoy system. But the German efforts as

made by small squadrons of airplanes; so chance of success by mass bombing remains for Hitler's hand to try. How attacks on—groups of con|voyed merchantmen would succeed if delivered by several hundred planes, including dive bombers, re‘mains to be seen. Yet, it would appear that of all German plans for subduing Great Britain, starvation

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yet have been weak, attacks being |:

blockade from the air remains the least defective, though entailing ‘no

sage was anticipated.

Nye Supports F. D. R.’s ‘Cartel Plan

WASHINGTON, June 18 (U..P.). enator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.), an isolationist leader, gave full support today to President Roosevelt's plan 40 forge an economic union of

the Western Hemisphere natfons to

check the triumphant march of the ! dictator nations.

‘Anti-Aircraft Troops Sought for Detroit

—Governor taking cognizance of the value of Detroit's - great industrial area in the scheme for national. defense,

ment for a National Guard antiaircraft regiment.

LANSING, Mich., June 18 (U.P.). Luren D. Dickinson

today requested the War Depart-

{people and its fighters, both living and dead. of their honor however they could.”

Hint Use of Rail Car of 1918 Fame

By UNITED PRESS Will Adolf Hitler require France to sign his peace terms in the same place where the Germans petitioned for and received an armistice in 1918? ‘The German surrender occurred in a railroad car parked on a siding of the railroad junction in the forest of Compiegne in northwest France. The car has been preserved there as a museum. Reports emanating from Berlin suggested that Hitler's sense of the ironic and dramatic might cause him to choose that locale.

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The two. men, meeting to decide on for stopping the destruction of France, conferred immediately after the arrival of Il Duce at the Fuehrer house. !

'No Sentimentality’ Is Theme as| Hitler and Duce Get Together

Streets Bedecked With Flags as Dictator Allies Parade to Their Meeting Place.

By ROBERT H. BEST United Press Staff Correspondent : MUNICH, June 18.—Adolf Hitler. and Benito Mussolini, field gray uniforms, met to decide the fate of defeated France today! amidst a rising clamor in the German press for a “settlement without

the price they would exact

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definite swing toward any of the candidates and neither Mr. Taft nor Mr. Dewey is far enough ahead to prevent widespread speculation .regarding dark horse chances. The idea of a plankless platform short enough to be printed on a postcard won the support of topranking leaders. : Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the program committee, accused President Roosevelt of making an unauthorized “informal declaration of war” in his recent Charlottesville, Va., speech pledging material resources to-the Allies. Mr. - Frank charged that the Roosevelt Administration has fashioned its foreign policy at least in part to further its political ends at home. “Millions of both parties in this country are distrustful of this Administration that proceeds on its own hook to assume responsibilities in Europe that Congress has not authorized,” he said.

NEW YORK, June 18 (U. P.).— The United States can best serve the cause of democracy by keeping out of war, Wendell Willkie, R2publican Presidential aspirant, told

ts, rally of Young Republicans in

Brooklyn today. “I want to repeat what I have said on. several “previous occasions, that despite our whole-hearted sympathy for the Allied cause we must stay out of the war,” Mr. Willkie ‘said. “I believe in national defense not as a step toward war but as a protection against it. It is the duty of the President of the United States to recognize the determination of the people to stay out of war and to do nothing by word or deed that would undermine that determination.”

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 18 (U. P.).—Thomas E. Dewey last night accused the New Deal of “scheming for political advantage” in its national defense preparations. He

{urged establishment of a “civilian

defense board” established by act of Congress and not “subject to the whim of a temperamental Admin-

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eee | By CHARLES T. LUCEY and LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writers

WASHINGTON, June 18.4An American counterpart of the deadly German Pangzerdivisionen—mechanized cavalry divisions—is in the making. It will be a powerful unit, combining a fast striking force of combat] cats with squadrons of motorized troops to take and hold | territory. But in point of size it won't hold a candle to what the Ger-

mans have. In a day when rolling columns of steel have remade warfare, the United States Army has. only about

28 of the latest-model tanks— perJaps #nough to take Mamaroneck, AY { It has 300 other light tanks, not so new, and 114 combat cars, plus a few World War tanks of British design, 40 tons apiece, now useless.

It's Pint Sized

Against the mighty! Nazi army on wheels which has subdued Poland, Holland, Belgium and northern France, this equipment is pint-sized. | But the War Department is reappraising the place of the mechanized force in a new| kind of war, and a sizable chunk of the billions being poured into defense by Congress will be used to help meet this deficiency. The Army now has no modern heavy tanks at all—its meghanized units consist chiefly (of light (12ton) and medium (18-ton) tanks. The General Staff’s| attitude has been, in the main, that such armed monsters were useful chiefly against the immense ‘fortifications built in Europe—and there are no Maginot Lines in this hemisphere. |

New Questions Arise Today

Other drawbacks have been ciaimed for the 70-ton metal mastodons Germany is reported using— distances in this country are much greater; rivers larger and more difficult to cross; many roads and bridges not strong enough to hold such giants. But new questions are asked today, and while it appears unlikely that 70-tonners are anead, the U. S. may get tanks larger, more heavily armed and armored, than it has today. Krupp, in Germany, has experimented with a; 100-ton tank armed with 4-inch cannon: carrying a gun crew of 19, and protected by 4-inch-thick armor. By contrast, the heaviest guns on any U. S. tanks up fo this time are 37-millimeter—1.-inch. Against Germany's 10—perhaps 11 or 12-——mechanized divisions, and ite 5000 or 6000 tanks, the U. S. Army today has |just’ a single mechanized cavalry, brigade; that is, two regiments. | Each regiment has four troops of combat cars (the lighter: vehicles, though virtually alike, are called combat cars in cavalry units, tanks in infantry units). Will Become Two Divisions

These two regiments are to become two divisions if—as now stems likely—the manpower of the Army is increased to 375,000 or more. But so far planning doesn’t go beyond these two divisions. The infantry mechanized force ‘will ‘be increased similarly. The one infantry tank regiment of today will become several regiments as soon as men and tanks can be obtained. fo ? Schedules now call for acquisition of 1346 armored scout cars, 208 combat cars, 734 light tanks and 194 medium tanks. | : Army men believe that it was with giant infantry tanks that Germany first smashed the French lines at Sedan and elsewhere, and that with the hole once opened by these iron giants [she sent in her speedy mechanized cavalry divisions --the 'Panzerdivisionen—to -subdue and hold territory,

Scout Cars at 55 M. P. H.

For the high-speed cavalry force the Army has scout cars for which a speed of 55 miles an hour has Leen hinted. These are armored against light machine guns. Their function is to determine an enemy’s strength by assaulting widely separated points, then to report to the heavier combat-gar units which are following, and so prepare for battle. The mission of tanks working with infantry is [somewhat different; it is to delay enemy progress, attack opposing columns on flanks or from the rear, break supply or communication lines and harass the enemy in retreat. : Army officers say the tendency in this country’s mechanized fighting forces will be toward the German tactics of massing tanks for mighty offensives, rather than dispersing them through many troop units. Equipment of tanks and combat cars varies, but standard weapons are the 30-caliber and 50-caliber machine guns, sub-machine guns, and ‘the 37-millimeter -(1%;-inch) gun. One tank may have four machine guns firing 600 or 800 rounds of ammunition a minute—a volume of fire | unknown in tke World War.

= Shortage Today Apparent The Army officers hold that when

our mechanized cavalry divisions are ready. to go, their ratio of size

compare well with the proportion of the Nazi forces represented in the PanZerdivisionen. But _the shortage of mechanized forces today is very apparent, Most of those we have are being concentrated in the South for the summer maneuvers. | In a day when the race is to the swift army on wheels, some 100,000 American troops will be in combat practice in upper New York State with only a toy-sized tapk force. : .

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By PERCY NOEL United Press Staff Correspondent

invasion, Consulate and consulates elsewhere

in southwest France, today, demanding protection. Three American warships at Lisbon, Portugal, were said to be await-

and evacuate the refugees. It also was believed that the U. S Lines may be directed to send either the Manhattan or the Washington to Bordeaux or some nearby port. Some .of the Americans were frantic, feeling what might happen to them if the Germans came here, and one -of them exclaimed at the Consulate: “I'll demand asylum in this office and will not leave it!” For two weeks Bordeaux and other southern French cities had been centers for American refugees. Hotels ‘and boarding houses were crowded. Many Americans were unable to find places to sleep and the

a cafe, where the American Red Cross has its emergency quarters, and provided 100 beds. 4 + But there was no accommodation

spent days in automobiles fleeing before the Germans, driving day and night. . Some of these people were rich, used to luxurious living, but had been unable to shave, sometimes

and thus lose a few miles in the slow procession along the roads which ‘were crowded ‘with men, women and children. A few had. been far-sighted

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BORDEAUX, France, June 18.— American refugees, fleeing from all rarts of France before the German thronged the American

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Consulate opened a dormitory over |

for many including some who had

even to wash, or to obtain hot meals for three days hecause they were unwilling to leave their cars

BATON ROUGE, La., June 18 (U. P.).—Governor Sam Houston Jones today prepared a statement against Baron Edgar Freiherr von Spiegel, German Consul General at New Orleans, to, support a telegraphic request to Secretary of State Cordell

Governor Jones told Mr. Hull that xpressed an “openly the

HAMMOND, Ind. June 18. — A group of Ingiana: Harbor Belt Railees has urged Congress to - convert the Pullman-Standard into an

Americans in France Frantic, Seek Consulate's Protection

enough to send personal effects by train before them when that was still possible, but others brought only what they could carry in their cars. Many of these cars were so overlopded that they were almost pressing their tires to the rims of the wheels. ;

FORD MAY MAKE ALLISON MOTOR

‘Permission Is Announced Here by Otto T. Kreusser, G. M. Manager.

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coast and in tests was reported to ‘have shown a speed of 300 yards a second close to 600 miles an hour. {The 24-cylinder version, which Mr, |kaeusser said was not in quantity {production but only in the semi-ex-perimental stage, is rated at 2400 horse power, twice that of the 12< {cylinder model. i The 1200 horse power Allison motor is now fitted as standard or exe perimentally in more than seven types of Army and Navy pursuit; interceptor, dive bomber and attack planes, including the Bell Aircraft’s Airacuda and Airacobra, Lockheed's twin-engined P-38, the Curtiss P-40 and a Bell Navy pursuit ship. All {are 400 and 500-miles-an-hour craft, modified versions of which have been sold to the Allies.

Ford Plane Plans Won’t Halt Auios

NEW YORK, June 18 (U.P.)— The Ford Motor Co. will continue to produce automobiles regardless of whether it undertakes to contribute 1000 airplanes a day to the national defense program, Edsel Ford told ‘5000 members of the “Ford family” at the World’s Fair. oie He said the Ford Co. had experi mented with airplane motor parts “for our own education,” and had ‘held preliminary conversations with William S. Knudsen of the Federal Advisory Defense Commission, but had made no plant alterations for airplane production. ’

FORD AID WILL SPEAK

J. C. Cronan, of the sales departe ment of the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, will address the luncheon of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce tomorrow at the Canary Cottage. Mr. Cronan will speak on the “Ford Good Driver's League.

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