Evening star., 1940-06-19
London
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tanks and starting numerous fires,
the announcement said.
British forces were returning from
France =
Whether these were included in
Prime Minister Churchills resume
of British defense strength was not
known. Mr.. Churchill said that
soldiers under arms here number
1,250000, not counting emergency
defense organizations.
Military circles said the with
drawn B. E. F.. would devote itself
now to lone task"-home defense,
battle-trained on the abandoned
fields of France and still holding
large quantities" of guns and stores
brought back with it.
Never before" said military COM
mentator, have so many troops
been in England and never before
have we had s0many who have had
fighting experience under modern
conditions
The defenders, 1t was said are
certain in the knowledge that they
are better men than the Germans
when they meet them under equal
terms"
Reports of German terms for
France contained the worst of i'm
plications for the British-that
Adolf Hitler would demand sur
render of the French feet which
the British hoped to add to their
own.
But whether the French surrender
could be total remained to be seen.
The extent of the most authoritative
word on the German French situ-
alton was that Germany would dis
close her terms only to represent
atives of the French, and this had
not yet been done
The official Italian news agency,
however, reported that Hitler had
decided that France is to be COM
pletely disarmed and occupied in
part until the end of the European
war.
Resistance Continues.
The French Army meanwhile re-
ported continuing its resistance to
German pressure toward the center
of France.
The German air force encountered
stiff resistance from the embattled
British last night-screens of search
lights and anti-aircraft fire and
swift-rising attacks of interceptor
planes. Damage, the British said,
was slight and most of the casual
ties were in Cambridgeshire, where
bombs fell into the streets.
About 40 raiders approached the
East Anglican coast in relays of
quarter>hour intervals, but one by
one the waves were broken and the
planes prevented from penetrating
deep inland by intense anti-aircraft
fire and fighter hostility" as the Air
Ministry put it.
Bombs were dropped at three
points along the Thames, apparently
to damage crowded shipping and in
dustrial areas. The civilian dead
included two infants and two young
girls.
Approximately four hours elapsed
between the time the Nazi war
planes made their appearance and
sounding of the all-clear signal
Five waves of bombers roared over
Yorkshire, dropping loads of ex-
plosives.
Alarms also were sounded in Lin
colnshire, Northamptonshire. Nor
folk, Suffolk and Kent. Most of
the casualties occurred in one locality
where bombs fell on a row of houses
-Four of the casualties were in a
Thames estuary town, where scores
of homes were damaged.
One bomber, which crashed on
the southeast coast after being
crippled by British Spitfire fighters
narrowly missed big hotel on the
sea cliffs.
One member of the crew at
tempted to parachute to safety, but
was killed when he became en-
tangled in the planes tail, which
fell 100 yards from the engine and
wings.
The four-man crew of another
German raider shot down at see
was rescued by fishermen. Two o.
the Nazis were wounded.
The raid, one of the most ex.
tensive that England has expert
enced to date, came only a few
hours after Air Marshal Sir Ph!liy
Joubert had warned the nation in {
broadcast that it must be prepared
for mass air attark