The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-29

the Allied 0hent line untenable, and that to make . stand meant tntrapment because os the German channel wedge.
 It was asserted that the Germans were showing signs that they ap. preached the point of exhaustion but that they drove continuously into the Allied northern army, whose left flank he'd vanished with the Belgian kings surrender.
 A spokesman said the Germans suffered horrible carnage" as the price of their attacks yesterday along the river Lys when the final phase of the Allied withdrawal was started.
 Though the spokesman said that the withdrawal continued, he admit. ted that the confusion was euch that the high command here did not know the exact positions of the Allied and German armies in the northern zone.
 Planes Bombing Nasls
 It was emphasized that Allied planes were bombing and machine cunning the Germans day and night, trying to disrupt their cominunica. tons and relieve pressure on the retreating armies.
 Mechanized units, troop columns, cross roads, concentration points, ammunition and gasoline dumps were bombed, 1t was asserted, and operations were carried as fer as Hamburg and Brennan, on the Ger. man coast, where fuel tanks were destroyed.
 The army spokesman said that the French had recaptured the last three villages on the south bank of the SomHne, where the Germans had established bridgeheads last week. and were now in possession of the entire south bank from the Aisne to the s0mne estuary.
 French heavy artillery on the Rhine front shelled German rail- road stations over which troops were being transported, the army spokesman said, and German guns retorted.
 The Chateau porcien sector. men. toned by tho high command as the scene of Q German raid, B north ok the Aisne, the spokesman said.
 Along the 6omnie, where they had retaken German brldgeheads, the French, strongly fortified, had btart- ed attacks of considerable scale, 6 feeling out process and one at tho same time designed to hold big German forces immobile.
 Surrender state Hurts
 The disaster which the Allies had suffered in the surrender Of the Belgian army by the son of the hero King Albert of the World war still burned white in the minds of Allied leaders, but there seemed no thought but of . finish fight by the trapped army of the north. It had suffered, in the minds of French, British and Belgian government leaders, betrayal, not defeat.
 pertinax (Andre 0iraud), famous political commentator of the news- paper order, hinted this morning at Q belief that the Belgian kings equalization to Adolf Hitler was not c thing of the moment, an inpulsive collapse, but something planned.
 we know enough not to call it . simple failure" he wrote. Tt is rather q calculation which was not born at one stroke"
 Trial Of German Spy
 Paris, May, 2e.-(UP)-The eeine court martial today began trial in Absentia of the BaFoness yon Einem--the former Reissa Won Scheurnschloss--on charges of ate tempting to organize . fifth column in France as personal emissary ol German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Ooebbels.
 The German woman spy, it was alleged, tried to organize German sympathy in high Paris society and press circles. / The baroness fled 10 Germany and was not present at the trial, but some of her alleged ace compiices were in the prisoners dock.
 They were Leon FIirsch, on Aus trian, and two Frenchmen. Alloys Aubin, former news editor of the newspaper Le Temps, and 0aston AmourelIe, a former senate stenog- rapher whose job it was to type secret military documents for the senate army committee. The baroness fled to Germany when Aubin, Hirsch, Ariourelle and e fourth alleged accomplice, Julien l p0irier, former business manager oi l the newspaper Figaro, were arrested poirier died Of . stomach aiImenl In Gante prison.
 Amourelle faces . possible seEi- | tence of death before c firing squad \ hecatsse the prosecution charged to-