Evening star., 1940-06-19
Berlin
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have been taken The German flag
is flying from Strasbourg Cathedral.
"a German radio special bulle-
tin heard in New York by N B. c.
said the German high command
announced German mechanical
troops in the southeast of France
had reached the important city
of Lyon on the Rhone Riiver.D
At only one point, near the north
ern terminus of the Maginot Line
in the vicinity of Thionville, did the
high command specifically mention
continued French resistance.
AS foretaste of what may lie
ahead, England was bombed in the
night Oil tanks along the Thames
were fired and airports strafed
Cherbourg and Nancy Taken. .
The great transatlantic shipping
port of Chelbourg. France, the i'm
portant railroad center of Rennes,
Brittany, and the manufacturing
town of Nancy have all fallen before
the still-advancing German armies,
the high command announced to-
day.
(The Rome radio reported from
Berlin that German troops in
France had reached point only
80 miles from Brest, important
Channel port south of Cher
bourg)
The Army of France, scattered
over a broken and irregular front
from the lower English Channel to
the Swiss border, was fighting with
the traditional stubbornness of the
poilu, but the high command said
the French ARE dissolving more
and more"
The French were fighting on
orders of Premier Petain, on whose
aged shoulders rested the choice be-
tween peace on terms fixed by the
Berlin-Rome axis partners or con-
tinuation of the losing battle.
There were no details in the COM
munique on the capture of Cher
bourg, which lies across the channel
just south of Plymouth and South
ampton, England, and west of LIE
Havre, which is already in German
hands.
Rennes, which the Germans have
also taken, is junction for trains
running from Brest and st. Nazaire,
Atlantic shipping ports, and Paris.
Loire Again Crossed.
LIE Mans, famous for the earliest
stained glass cathedral windows in
France, was passed through to the
south, the communique said, and
added that the Loire again was
crossed at many points between
Orleans and Nevers in North Central
France.
The Nazi Army, the communique
said, was pushing forward from
Burgundy south toward Lyon, an
other highly important manufacture
ing center in the Rhone Valley.
"West of Mulhouse armored anc
motorized divisions, coming from
Belfort, were about to unite with
troops which attacked across thu
upper Rhine and deeply advanced
by way of Munster into the Vosge.
Mountains the communique said.
The high command admitted thai
| the French were still resisting in thu
Maginot Line on both sides o.
Thionville. but said its dive bomber!
were attacking.
1t also disclosed that the British
air force again had raided Northern
and Western Germany and said tina
18 civilians had died in the bomb
ings.
At the same time it stated, Ger
man airmen raided the Thame
Estuary, setting fire to big oil tanl
centers and bombarding airflelds.
Details of the terms agreed upol
by Hitler and Mussolini in Munich
yesterday remained closely guarded
secret, but there was little doub
in Berlin that they would prove II
be harsh.
In view of the fact that Britain
has declared her determination t.
fight on to the finish, the only pos
sible condition which could be of
fered France must be designed t.
!; make her militarily impotent, in
J formed Nazis said.