The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
FRANCE
FRANCE APPEALS
TO AMERICA FOR
MANY WARPLANES
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the vanguard of liberty, has sacri-
feed herself"
Then he added:
1.-The world must know what they
owe it (the French race.)
"The hour has come for them to
pay their debt"
wounded France" he went On,
"has the right to turn to other
democracies and to say: we have
claims upon you.' None of these
democracies with a sense of Justice
can deny this.
But it is one thing to approve
and still another to act.
.... every time that 1 have
asked the President of the United
States to increase assistance in all
forms which American law permits
ne mas done SO generously and it
has been approved by his people.
But today we are at a more ad-
vanced point.
To-day the life of France is at
stake-at least Frances essence of
life"
The premier did not say just how
much longer France could fight,
but he cried out:
Whatever happens in the next
few days Frenchmen will unite
around the wounded fatherland un-
til the day of resurrection"
In an effort to speed up delivery
of planes to France, American
craft has been flown to Canada and
flown from there, but nc effort at
tr~ansoceanic flight from the Unit
ed States has been made.
Move On Paris
Invading nazis pressed down on
both sides of Paris tonight, hourly
Threatening to engulf the city.
Some of their vast number struck
toward the rich Loire valley and
the grand routes leading through
the center of France toward this
emergency capital.
Before Paris itself, the desperate.
ly weary French armies already
had decided not to try to defend
that beloved and all but depop
ulated city if the German thrust
d%islodges them from their present
positions.
But the German offensive of l.,
800, 900 men apparently was nov
directed not only it the old capita.
but at Tours, in whose environs
the government. is carrying on anc
where, even tonight, the cabinet
declared that the fight would &C
On to the end, however bitter.
The French high command!
night communique acknowledged
that German motorized columns
had begun to pour over" tn {
three bridgeheads of Louviers, les
Andelys and Vernon on the Seine
in a great triangle, the neares'
point but 40 miles from Piris.
They we're around Pacy-sur-Eure
and Evreux, a region commanding
the great highways leading to cen
trail France.
Towns Bombed
Both Evreux and Dreux-the lat
ter about 100 miles north OF Tour:
and IS miles west of Versailles
were declared to have been DOM
barded by the Germans.
This new German action was oil
rected toward a region rich in me
tai industries and the "chateal
country of France.
On the east, the communlque
said, other divisions were crossing
the Marne on a 12-mile front IRON
Chateau-Thierry to Dormans
plunging forwird in the dlrectlo1
of Montmirail, which is about L
miles south Of the river.
On the front just north of Paris
where fighting had ragged back ane
forward and at times within l.
miles of the city's outskirts a
least IL Nazi divisions attacked
between Senlis and Betz. This 1ol
lowed i French co~unter-attaci
which threw the Nazis back
miles. or to about Is miles dron
mid-Paris.
The cabinets session here was
attended by Prime Minister WIN
ston Churchill of Britain and Lore
Halifax, Britain's foreign secre