Show 6 Tuesday Morning irb t Salt gnkt - Nazis Widen Salient Dividing French Troops From Allies English Battle to Save Calais rage By NEW YORK May 27—Her dull gray hull making her almost invisible in the thick North river haze the French liner Champlain docked here Mondaybringing two French commissions to buy war goods among her 648 passengers of whom 613 were refugees from war zones The French air ministry sent a commission headed by Lieutenant Commander Dolimier and includn ing Michel Detroyat French flier to obtain additional fighting planes The other group from the ministry of supply was led by General Pierre Salmon and Included six army officers Dr Alexis Carrel arrived unexpectedly He said he was going to study recent medical research findings and while he would not confirm it was believed particularly interested In new ways of treating infection in wounds Among the passengers who made a cold but uneventful crossing was Marianne Carsch a Dutch refugee She told how the crew of a French train on which she was riding saw tWo nazi parachutists dropping to the ground The train stopped and the crew shot both men as soon as they landed Miss Carsch came from Antwerp and was in that Belgian port when nazi bombers came over on the initial drive into the lowlands she said 'and for three days the continued Then she bombing made her way by stages to Ostend and to Rouen France proceeded Britain kept an eye onTand 5:30 a m on Gibraltar and between 11 p in and 5 a m on the Mediterranean threat The day was one of incessant Malta In Malta the curfew was termed fighting on the northern front necessary to guard 'against parawith street clashes in Calais whose chutists Additional protection on fate was still in doubt tonigig while the island was given by an assemof rural thundered overhead bly of volunteer forces battle planes ' ' ' British naval guns pounded away at nazi eolurOns At the end of the day the British war office reported the British front "remains intact" The royal air force a comtnnbtnue saidlfiew far behind the'front battering German communications and airdromes and troop concentrations in the rear of Arras Allied anliaircraft guns raked the clouds for enemy planes and brought down a "number" of them Twenty-eigh- t German planes were reported destroyed or seriously damaged in 24 hours during one of the most farflung raids yet staged by the royal air force Five British craft were missing Road rail and river traffic was disorganized over a wide area from the Ilhineland to the French frontier the air ministry reported in raids which lasted throughout Sunday night and Monday Flames Leap Skyward The air ministry added that 150 and incendiary explosive high bombs were rained on airports at Brussels and Charleroi the latter a German-hel- d French town on the Belgian border Flames were said to have leaped skyward after attacks on Antwerp Flushing and Venlo on the Dutch German border In other attacks the air ministry asserted a bridge on Belgium's main rail line was believed destroyed a direct hit scored on he railroad tracks south of Aachen in Germany an Important rail Junction in Belgium wrecked and a convoy of 24 vehicles blasted to pletes The war office announced temporary cancellation of telegraph service and a ban on all mail weighing more than two ounces to the British expeditionary force because of "heavy militarytraffic" Teuton Women Arrested At home the government look new precautions against the menace of a fifth column More than 3000 German and Austrian women were rounded up in London for 'internment on the Isle of Man for the duration of the war Scores of pacifists war grumblers soap box orators and suspected members of the outlawed Irish republican army were arrested British and French squadrons in the Mediterranean kept their decks cleared for action and the government ordered curfews on the two great fortresses of Gibraltar and Malta Everyone except soldiers and sailors in uniform were ordered indoors between 11:30 p well-know- sportsmen Tension Mounts still grew over Italian towards Britain but the foreign office and the ministry of economic warfare hoped a solueconomic tion of the Angló-Italia- n quarrel could be found in a plan whereby Italian ships would carry only cargos which have been navicerted (described in the manifest as approval by the British) Semiofficial sources at the London foreign office said the British In Italy were "the same as in any other danger spot" being warned when they asked to go home "in view of the anxious situation" Neutral diplomatic circles disagreed with this interpretation that Tepsioh rtagomism "things are just as they were" These sources declared the AngloItalian 'situation was getting steadily worse and believed the entrance of Italy into the war hinged on the success or failure of allied arms in the next three days One neutral charge d'affaires said Italy's entrance into war on Germany's side was a "matter of hours" Uneasiness was In evidence among the Italians here F t44:1'5014g44 Monday Scotland Yard urrested London Red Leader Ted Bram ley as a potential fifth columnist He is shown as he appeLred addressing a meeting in 1937 on "London Work midnight Monday night following a day in which the allies 'Were hammered by a terrific German offensive which forced them to give ground in Flanders and which yielded only to French countr attacks along the Somme onthe south side of the nazi corridor to the sea It wu only learned that the cab-- central army in the Somme secmet considered both military and tor south of the nazi salient to the sea hammered the Germans back political subjects but the Paris 'several villages press was devoting increasing at - toregain Germans The to of tention the prospect Italy's 'available into theput everything campaign to imminent entry into the war crush the French British and BelThe important newspaper Le gian forces in the battle of Flanwave upon wave Temps said Italy's "hour for a ders They-threof infantry a thundering artillery decision is approaching" bombardment as 36e1l as their dive "At the rate at which the cur- bombers and armored columns into rent battle is expanding and de- their drive for a quick decision over cisive hours approach the politics the allies of the neutral countries or rather (The Germans even the nonbelligerents tend to become tanks fighting warshipsreported and Mussolini will precise hardly speedboats harrassing the British delay any longer this decision" in the English channel) The paper added that "ItaIiii navy The battle of Flanders raged newspapers have announced that overnight into the first major in connection with commercial nenight operations of this war while gotiations between Italy and Japan the allies withdrew from their it was agreed that in case communication difficulties should occur between Italy and Ethiopia Japan would be charged with provisioning the new Italian domain" Premier Reynaud will address thecountry Tuesday at 8:30 a m t1:30 a m C S Ti) it' was anw Crisis river positions In the sector to a prepared line farther west toward the'channel The struggle raged with undiminished fury throughout Monday with the allies reported checking the Germans on their new front The French high command'r night communique said ftrir-- h troops counterattacked on the northern front (here five woms were censored) while the French on the persisted in their clean-u- p Somme To the east the Germans launched fresh attacks in the Argonne forest famed World war battlefield where their objective In that sector east of the Aisne river appeared to he to outflank the French front established on the Aisne to defend Paris The French communique said the attack broke against firm French Scheldt Valenciennes 1 0 positions In the Flanders battle the Germans hurled forces against three sides of the northern armies ' FLY TO LOS ANGELES nounced The violence of the German aters Answer Hitler's Ultimatum" tacks aimed at the allied forces cornered in coastal Belgium and northern France were hardly less than the fiercest battles at Verdun in the World war The allies there LONDON May 27 (AM Sire German parachutists )f they at-were forced to take up a new stand Attack Fails to Come tempt to land in Britain Edward Grigg undersecretary defending the English channel Sir Edward said a large propor- To offset somewhat the nazi LONDON May 27 (UP)—A 20- the British war office announced tion of these volunteers who minute air raid alarm was sounded gains In the north where at nuin a radio broadcast Monday night See-e-n In the Orkney islands off the coast merous Ipoints they crossed the sponded to the appeal of War that 400000 volunteers have retary Anthony Eden 12 days ago of Scotland Monday night but no river Lys last water barrier on "raised and organized" to fight already had been armed the way to the channel the French planes were seen or heard 400000 Volunteer To Fight 'Chuters Flanders 28 ? 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