IN THE most detailed survey of the progress of the war since its outbreak, the French Premier (M. Paul Reynaud) told of the exact nature of the German advance units ...
Article : 550 wordsAccording to the German Official Wireless, the British Admiralty has announced the loss of the minesweeper, Princess Elizabeth, which struck a mine and sank. The crew of 33 must be considered lost, it was added. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Press Association correspondent states that the recapture of Arras is believed to indicate that General Weygand has taken an important ...
Article : 147 wordsPolitical circles in Moscow regard Mr. Churchill's latest speech as an admission of a breakdown of British war plans and of the dangerous situation with which Britain is faced at present as a result of the unbroken series of German military successes in western Europe ...
Article : 96 wordsAccording to reports from Paris the majority of the thousands of refugees reaching Paris are greatly discouraged at the opposition given the advancing German troops by the Allied forces, and there stories have added to the already chaotic conditions in the French capital. ...
Article : 77 wordsCommenting on the reported differences of opinion between the heads of the British and French General Staffs the Italian newspaper. "Popolo di Roma" says that France has every reason to fear the withdrawal of British troops from that country as England was becoming ...
Article : 100 wordsThe breakdown of telephonic communication between London and the European states declares, the German Official communique today, was designed to avoid the leakage in England of the advance trend of events on the western front. In order to buy supplies of raw materials from abroad the French Government, has decided to introduce a law providing the compulsary forfeiture of reserves states the German Official Wireless. This law applies to all re[?] companies societies and other ...
Article : 130 wordsPresident Roosevelt at a Pre[?] conference denounced the German machine-gunning of refugees in France. He said that enemy planes were sweeping the roads, mercilessly shooting down people and taking such a toll the like of which had never before been seen. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe French military spokeman's statement that the British had smashed the German flank at Cambrai was the S.U.P. version. Other ...
Article : 41 wordsThere has been further aerial activity off the British south-east coast and residents of Channel towns report great activity throughout the ...
Article : 90 wordsA further indication of the serious view of the war situation from the viewpoint of the British can be taken from the fact that unofficial circles in London declare that the Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) does not intend to make a statement about the military ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German High Command says that the German Air Force successfully attacked enemy installations at Ostend. Dunkirk Calais. Boulo[?]ne ...
Article : 305 wordsAn Associated Press report from Washington says that a suggestion which is gaining ground among influential American Senators is that the only means available to the U.S.A. to recover at least part of the Anglo-French War Debt is to take over Western possessions in the ...
Article : 72 wordsWhen the Senate met yesterday the proposal by President Roosevelt that steps should be taken to send the Allied more planes from the stocks of the United States Army and Navy was introduced by Senator Pepper of Florida. ...
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National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 - 1954), Thu 23 May 1940, Page 3
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