Show f i I Gains sins ong Somme Int ant Reported I lin Declares Spearheads Smash o oss s Seine Oise and Aisne t i yes ies s Say Reich's Losses Terrific II I REIN June 10 UP German UP-German German quarters asserted ight that the advance of th the German army along nile role front and Italian entrance into the war had sealed e of France i IN FRANCE June 10 AP The AP-The The night of the French high command announced the theus i us had d crossed the lower Sei Seine e at some e 1 points IS June une 10 CUP Germany UP-Germany Germany throwing men tanks into the battle of Fran France e Monday was reported to token ken Ken keiu through defense lines of einer Jf p Oise and moved on toward the M Maine Marne r e and d thrust k spearhead ad 3 or 30 miles of Paris tan tank k columns were op- op uth of Be Beauvais iun hinn 25 or 30 miles of ot vais itself is only a aIthan ai athan than Ithan n 35 miles from the i ank units were reported S smashed through Nordt Nor Nor- dt the departments of and Eure just Kb of Paris eaten Two Cities ea east st t heavy beavy German Cole col- col e attacking on the Tar- Tar tu southeast of Sois- Sois it to flank both im- im I a r s of S Soissons and front reports in- in at French French positions were vere f being flanked or ta ta- ta- ta the rear due to slash- slash an attacks led by tanks r red ired d columns tr troops ps in the west stilli still stilling i ing the line of the Bresle German tanks had penh penh pen- pen h hind h nd d them in such force as feared the river line ye ill to be abandoned nation tion around Beauvais is IQ Paris was much the ther r rethe the French lines held Beauvais but blows blows' beby be- be kIby by armored elements south of Beau- Beau that a with- with be forced ard and at Soissons the heaviest assaults of ofas as that southeast of Sois- Sois re the Germans are to reach the Marne The plateau where the bating bat- bat mg ing ng fought controls the thelo theto to lo the Marne attacks acks were smashing the upper Aisne The French heavy losses on the at- at mans The Germans ng g for the Ardennes ca- ca Chesne and was as reported particularly vas on Page PaJe Two Column Seven NAZIS REPORT DRIVE ON PARIS Continued from Page One heavy around Fournelle The Germans succeeded in crossing the Aisne at two points in the Vou- Vou zier region Threatens Maginot l Line This attack if pressed with full force would threaten to flank the Maginot line from behind If It carried carried carried car car- ried far enough south it might cut off the famous French fortress of Verdun from the rear General Maxime studying battle maps at his headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters waiting for some opportunity opportunity opportunity to strike back urged every officer and man to stand at his post The war office this morning No of the war was eloquently brief From the sea to the Argonne the battle continues more and more violently As eloquent was cancellation of the customary morning war office conference with newspaper corre corre- Battle attle in Critical Phase All that the country knew was that the battle of France had entered entered entered en en- its critical phase and that the pick of its men was in the battle battle battle bat bat- tle line taking a price for each mile the Germans gained a gained a price it was hoped that would prove impossibly Impossibly impossibly im im- possibly high for the success of the nazi blitzkrieg |