The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
German Armies Crash
 To Port Of Boulogne
IS Miles From Calais
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IS Miles From Calais
 Boulogne is only about 30 miles from the British coast and is but 8 from Calais the nearest French channe ssrmored columns Churchill revealed, have cut around behind the Allied Army In Belgium and are seeking to interrupt communication lines
 Penetrate Rear of Allies
 Churchill declared that the German armored forces which cut the corridor France have now penetrated to the rear of the Allied armies in Belgium and now are attempting to interrupt ther nm G,n oV o be- he said "but it evidently carried wltn t phcatoS of serious character"
 Nazis Can Use Artillery
 If the Germans can hold Bouogne 1t was noted here they can utilize long range artillery for the bombardmen of British channel ports such Dover Folkestone ana Deal Bouogne is the second nearest of the French channel ports It would also give the Germans potentla air base only few minutes bomber-flying time from Britain was said here that loss of Boulogne would De a terrific blow the Allies and probably would qulcKy make Calais untenabe thus endangerng any attempt to evacuate tn Allied Army in northern France
 Nazi Trip-Hammer Blows
 Churchll's statement - indicating that the German offensive had created and mperlled perhaps m lion Allied fighting in Flanders clmaxed series of rp-hammer blows on the home fronts and the war fronts: ,u element of Allied forces squeezing the British back from the schedt River that German troops were smash ing all Allied counter blows and driving norhward from the Somme valley toward Calais which Is 22 miles rom Dover The Germans said they bombed the Dover harbor works but London denied it. The official German News Agency said Naz troops driving to Calais and carrying the battle ever closer to England.
 g. The British admitted that the French channe ports were under such bombardment that they could be used only part of the time and that the main lines ol Allied communications were in grayest danger
 B. Paris reported savage fighting in "The Battle oi Flanders stating that Allied forces were caWlng at the German Hanks and had fought their back to the out skirts of Cambrai.
 A. Britain acted to stiffen the home front against trojan horse activities It also was announced that the headquarters of Sir Oswald Mosey's Fascist Union was raided (nne ten reported arrested), that 67 Irish Republican Army members had been deported, that Captain Archibald Ramsay, member of Parliament had imprisoned under the defense act and that others had been ordered detained because of membership in organizations which might be used against the national security reported the arrest Of 40 former Con munists suspected of trojan horse activities
 5. The British government announced consultations with Fire to guard against the possibility of German invasion of Ireland to base for attack England
 Attack On England Near
 An Allied spokesman in London warned that the "st- uaton remains very grave particularly as regards com munications with the Allied armies In northern France
 The renewed German thrust toward Calais and the narrowest part of the English Channel (Dover Is only 25 declarations in Berlin that the attack on England will begin shortly.
 Allies Fight Stubbornly
 Allied forces both to the north and the south of the German corridor were fighting stubbornly to break through The French high command reported that It's troops had driven back into the outskirts of Camba and that the battle in the north being Waged with great est violence The British reported that fighting of equal violence going short distance to the west between Arras and Baupaume and that their troops were holding their own.