Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-27 | Page 4 | Britain Shifts Army Leader

BRITAIN SHIFTS SHIFTS' SHIFT ARMY LEADER LONDON May 27 P UP Wit PI-Wit v battle hattle for the channel p pc t tI I brought so close that flash flashes flashe's gunfire on the continent cou d seen from England's south s coast Great Britain Monda trusted her home defenses to G c Geral ceral eral Sir Edmund Ironside placed Lieutenant General John Greer Dill in the emp empl highest military post as ch chief ef the imperial general staff I I These vital changes in the thear al high command made as Germ mechanized columns extended extended tl gains in ih their struggle for a S sp j board for a direct assault on f i land reflected urgent action strengthening Britain's resists to the threatened invasion t J The great preparedness drive tended to other sectors of the tic h lie front fron t. t m t I While the empire joined j George VI and Queen Elizabet their national day of praYer armament plants worked at speed throughout the week Scotland Yard rounded up anal ano score scare of British fascists in a ad against potential fifth column colum Including their leader Si Sir wald Mosley about 70 now confined in Brixton jail c 1 Police also swooped down the soap box orators in IK Ii park yesterday and Bramley leader of the Lon Lor communist party and a numbe numb other stop the war agitator The government at the H rs time announced a new lists liSt southeast coast towns as eva tion areas and prepared to torn fir children to safer places Anthem Air An them were Dover only 22 fir across the channel from Ca and Folkestone 26 miles from r man-held man Boulogne J The war gave meager account of the actual fl II fling ing for the channel ports ports' bi br t London source denied the Ger claim to have taken Calais