Evening star., 1940-06-11
Germans Throwing
All Resources Into
Fight, British Say
Main Force Of Offensive
May Be Spent in Few
Days, Military Thinks
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 11.-Britsh mill
tary circles said today Germany
was throwing every single thing
they've got into this battle because
they've got to do it to wind the war"
mo doubt in the next few days
the main force Of the German at
tack must be spent" a spokesman
said, adding that the exhaustion
of the attacker must inevitably be
greater than that of the defenders.
He cited the double attack on
Rethel yesterday, which he said had
made hardly any progress" while
the losses Of men and tanks were
colossal
The withdrawal of Allied troops
from Narvik, Norway, he continued,
was made only after the port was
rendered useless for months to come
and when it became clear that ships,
men and guns used there were re
quired more urgently elsewhere"
Possible Points of Attack.
Military circles said Italy had en-
tered the war for one or two rea-
sons-because Mussolini thought
Hitler was winning or because Hitler
needed help.
Italy. the spokesman said, has 10
to 80 modified divisions, an airforce
and navy and has greatly in
creased the opposition. Italian
forces. he added, would be more ef-
fective under German command
than they were under Italian COM
mand in the last war
Reviewing possible points for Ital-
ian attack, he said CoIsic appeared
to be the easiest, but that the French
Riviera, Malta and Cyprus would be
tough nuts to crack"
Heat and lack of water made
mechanical warfare impossible in
the African desert, ne said
Military circles said there were
about 200,000 white troops in Lydia
already short of water and unless
Italy was able to keep her lines of
communication and supplies open
these men must die" Another
$4,000 white troops in Abyssinia face
determination, he said.
Economically Italy will not prove
an asset to Germany, forced as
she is to obtain coal from Germany
and oil from Rumania, he declared.
Help Must Come Quickly.
Andre Maurois, noted French au-
thor, now serving as French liaison
officer with the British Army, said
here that IF We can hold out until
September we will have won this
war" but help must come quickly
to be useful
Maurois, who left Paris yesterday,
said he had heard President Roose-
velt's speech with great emotion, but
that help from the United States
must come at once If it is TO be
effective.
1T is not question of speeches, 4"
Maurois said, but a question Of
tanks and guns"
These are anxious and painful
days for France" he said. and
French soldiers are fighting as they
have never fought before against
very heavy odds-one man against
two men, sometimes. three. and one
tank against three or four
With help. if that help comes in
time he added, this war can still
be won. but help must come not in
a matter of months but in days"
I'VE know that America wants to
help, and this help to be useful
must come at once" he said.
He added that tanks and guns
were most needed.
Recalling that the evacuation OF
Dunkerque seemed impossible, he
said, 1t seems impossible that sc
divisions can be sent to France
but it must be done and if it is
done We have Won"
100 Being Interned.
Approximately 700 Italians pre-.
viously blacklisted for holding anti.
British views were started toward
internment camps by Scotland Yarc
agents, who began roundup of new
nth column suspects yesterday i'm.
mediately after Italy's declaration
of war.
Police said it would take severa
days to complete the questioning anc
classifying of the remainder of Lon.
dons 1000 Italian residents. Some
of these are believed to have left
London.
The roundup of suspects wa,
pressed throughout the night a.
Scotland Yard agents raided Fascist
clubs and other italian gathering
places.
1t is estimated that there arr
approximately $4,000 Italians in thu
United Kingdom, of whom about
10000 are British subjects.
Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bas.
tianini and the Counselor of tn,
Italian Embassy went to the Foreign
Once this afternoon.
Shipping Losses.
The Admiralty announced tina
the total of British merchant ship
ping lost by enemy action durint
the week ending midnight Sunday
June 2, was 78,715 tons, of which
$4,000 tons were lost during evacua
ton of Allied troops from Flander'
through Dunkerque, France.
Excluding the Dunkerque with
drawal, the Admiralty listed thes,
losses for the week:
British-Eleven ships, 54,715 tons
Allied-Four ships, 1913 tons.
Neutral-Three ships, 1923 tons.
Total-Eighteen ships, 80,551 tons
The Admiralty said that losses a
Dunkerque must be regarded as fa
less than might have been expected
in an operation in which a larg'
number of vessels was employed un
der exceptionally hazardous condi
tionS.
Up to June S, the statement con
tinued, $4,000 British, Allied an,
neutral ships had been conveyed b,
the British Navy with loss of onl,
. 80 ships.
Violent Demonstrate tiOns.
In a series of violent demonstra
fiorc Rrifoy,c ovrraccad ttAir vacant