The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-24
Channel Ports Are Critical
Point for Defenders; Army
OF France Gaining Slightly
Allies Clow at Gsrmon Flonln IN EiloEt
To Relieve Pressure On "Comersd~ Army,
Loss OF Coost Giles Would y Dlow

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LoNpON-Afred Duff Ceop<r. mla~tes n infsvmatirn.
said tonight that Calais ~ miles M kRnnA ehanae
from Devsr. smay he In danger" Duff Cesper sid ~
war Aa. besn brssshs with asssaluhlnr p1iy IL -
wry gates and In IT ths ma~i dnnxereuu DIR
aiions the country has ever faced"
PARIs-frreh forces have driven hssk 70 M sahsr.
tonight.
BERLiN-H.gA Nas' sources elaim<d tenieh that fAs
German drre to he EHglsh channel Mad psred ~ ~
destruction" Of hs Allied continental HeM army ~
possible capitalization ~ France and hs snleeshiHu II
tremendous blow agains EHgaHd Germany eM nsrsv
dsr The ended until England IL forced 10 accept peafe
dictated BY Germany regardless 81 whshr France esptH
iafss Independently stated bH Nax scarce SaHe
German sowses insisted they bsisusd FyaHee uswd eapn-
late The northern armies ara destroyed hecaass "spss
The French maHsd 10 defend Pars eh troops taken froH
he southeast frontier they could not ts.gs, aly and Z
oniv hours automobile ride irons Parss 'eas added
- reference % ne German adsaHes along As A.ss riser
Nass a'd Boogns already hare taisH and that Ger
man forees mere driving on Calais.
L0NDoN-Th, air ministry announced ssrlxhs ihss
special force Of Henhem bemhsx had attached hsAaqnsr
ports. and that esss onto 100 SsH ssrssi ss~s were
dropped ""sa w'sha ne target area
uR DnrANoE GROWS msomrxa
German columns smashed into Bouorns. esnt 10 miles
the channel from Britain today. and brought 70
England the imminent peril Of invasion.
British troops fighting desperately 20 drive hefk
the Germans who arrived At Bouloxns with powerful
armered column.
London warned that loss sf the channel part would
he terrible bew and that u BouIexns FELL caisis IL
miles away. probably wsuId become anisnsbs
.s q ss: sss ss ss place s' ss
Unless 1 could fight H. way through the German eer.
rider would be forced to attempt evacuation with made
quate port facilities under the ahatsTnx bomb attack u
the German air force
be possible and probable but they declined 10 aay
ths por, already had been occupied BY their columns
The grave Of BsuIosas was given % The
British house Of commons by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill. who admitted the outcome 81 The hattie
churchIs statement-indeaiing tho German offensive
had created ehao. and mperIlsd perhaps million Allied
fighting In Fander.climaxed series u tFiphammer
blows the home fronts and the fronts.
THE German high command reported enelrelsmsnf u
Allied forces squeezing the Britain back from the
Seheld river that German troops smashing All Allied
blows and driving nohvard from the somms valley
toward Calais which ~ miles from Dover The Germans
said they bombed tho psssf harbor works. but London
The British admitted rs~nsb shasns ports under
such severe bombardusnt they could he nnsd only part
the time that the main ines u Allied eammunieascn
9-Paris reported savage fighting in "ths Battle Of Plan
ders stating Allied forces eawinz II the German
TANKS and had fought their way back 70 ihs outskirts q
Cambria
lBrtan .tffensd tbs home fron, against Trojan Horse
activities II announced that headquarters ~
Sir Oawad MoseIeys Fascist union raded Trims ef -
can army members had deported that Capt Archibald
Ramsay member 81 parliament had been imprisoned under
the defense act and that others had pern gFusFea
because Of membership organizations which might be used
the national security France reported arrest o.
former Communists suspected Of Trojan horas aesive
The Britain government announced consultations with
Fire to guard against possibility Of German inyaapn
Of Ireland TO obtain . base for attack on England.
An Allied spokesman IN London warned that me ntn-
alton remains very grave particularly regards CONF
munealions with the Allied armies IN northern France
The renewed German thrust toward Calais and
the narrosssl part Of the English channel dover b
only Is mile. from caIaisl sas accompanied ~
hurst Of declarations In Berlin that the Attack %
England will begin shortly
Allied forces both 70 the north and the south o. ne
German corridor fighting stubborny 20 break through
The French high command reported is troops bad
driven The outskirts Of CambFai and that ne
the north being waged with greatest violence
The British reported fighting Of equal violence Was gong
short distance 10 the west between Arras ana bau-
paume. and that their troops holding their own