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Show hews met Bf g ' ' i Chamberlain Attends Meet to Map War on Germany FRENCH DRIVE FORWARD CiTO gerik.es ' Siegfried . Fortifications Penetrated Slightly, .by Attackers . By RALPH HEDtZEN United. Tnm StfX trrnanBdnt ' PARIS, Sept 1J (UP) British Prim Minister Neville Chamber-lain Chamber-lain and Trench Premier Edouard Daladler met with the allied iu preme council "somewhere In France" today and decided to "devote "de-vote all of their power and resource" re-source" to the war against Cer-many. Cer-many. All the aid In the power of Brit- ' aln and France was pledged to Poland, an official communique ' announced shortly after unofficial unoffi-cial reports from the weitera ' front had told of troops slicing off another German salient from the Saar to the Bile river. ' ' ' Secret Meetlag The allied council. Including defense de-fense leaders of both powers, met -secretly somewhere between Paris and the English channel. It waa . understood. Reliable source said the meeting place was about half . way to the channel, as Daladier left Parts at 1:30 a. m. (4:30 a. m. E. IX T) by automobile and re- . turned at 6 p. m. Nothing waa known of the meeting meet-ing or of the departure of Chamberlain Cham-berlain from London until after -Daladier's return to Parts. It was -said that the British prim minis-ter minis-ter had requested the meeting In order to have this allies tak a firm x and final position regarding - the question of a separata peace with , the Germans. . Nasi- propagandists -"have 'been- Inundating allied and neutral ' countries with proposal or re ports concerning separate peace on the basis of the nasi conquest . of Poland. Britain has rejected such suggestions in advance and the naxis have sought to split Franc away from London by indirect in-direct suggestions for a settlement, . such aa Nazi Marshal Hermann Goerlng mad In a speech to German Ger-man workers on Saturday when he . assailed Britain but took a friend- . ly tone toward Parts. Stand Together Daladler and Chamberlain, In a ' formal announcement after th , meeting, stood firmly together and rejected any thought of slacken- ' lng their war against Adolf Hitler. ' Th council also was reported to have studied th question of Italy's position as a neutral In the European Euro-pean conflict. The British French stand against a separata peace was urged in an Inspired editorial In today's semiofficial Petit Parislen, which ' said that th most adequate an- '-swer '-swer to German propaganda maneuvers ma-neuvers would b conclusion of a bilateral agreement binding th two powers to reject any separate peac otters. It was understood that th allied al-lied council agreed In principle on "energetic steps to get supplies sup-plies to th Polish army. General Maurice Gustav Game-' line, th French commander-in-chief, attended th council meeting, meet-ing, as well as Lord Chat field, minister of defense coordination. Meanwhile, th foreign relations committee of th chamber of deputies, dep-uties, sitting as a permanent body, adopted a resolution to do every- . thing possible to cooperst with -th allies In th successful prosecution prose-cution of th war. French war communique No. 18, Issued tonight, said: "Continuation of progress along iCoatlnuoS on FaM Two) (Column Sixl ALLIED CHIEFS 1 MEETINFRANCE (CoatlnMd from Pas Oh) the same front as yeiterday. Strong reaction was made by the enemy, notably by their artillery." Yesterday's action was on a 12-mile 12-mile front east of the Saar river, where the French pushed today the main German fortifications in the Rhlneland. |