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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
GERMANY
GERMANY LAUNCHES
MIGHTY ASSAULT
ON MAGINOT LINE
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tary urc said, brought not so
much as a pause in the wedge
like advance of German forces on
both sides of the city from across
the Marine and lower Seine rivers.
"It appears doubtful" they add
ed, whether the plan evolved by
the British-French leadership to
erect a new line of defense on the
Loire river can still be effectively
carried out"
Chat French line would be in
tended to protect central France
and the great highways leading to
Tours, an emergency French capt.
tai, which only today was being
evacuated by the French govern
ment.)
News of developments along the
Maginot line was scarce. The an
nouncement of the beginning of
this new frontal attack was curt,
but undoubtedly the Nazi airforce
will play a big part, as it did
against the Belgian defenses.
The Saar front, theater of the
action, is the only place between
the Maginot line and the German
west wall Notifications where the
two armies can get at one another
without having the broad Rhine as
an additional hindrance.
GUNS ROAR
All along the upper Rhine heavy
artillery duelling was reported.
The fall of Paris was announced
in Berlin by the ringing of church
bells.
The press pictured the occupa-
ton as one of waving swastikas.
The newspaper Nachtausgabe
said Germans were marching "ov-
er the boulevards and the Champs
Elysees on which the victory pa
rade of the Allies was held 81
years ago." and added:
Soon they will stand before the
castle of Versailles in which q
years ago the last paragraphs OF
a vulgar dictate were written"
Meanwhile, correspondents with
the German armies in the field
reported an interview with DR.. OF.
to Dietrich. Hitler's personal press
chief, in which he said the Allied
talk of obtaining additional aid and
developing new weapons was a
matter for establishment d
amusement.
Germany" he said, lis simply
unbeatable, no matter what may
yet come.
1.-THE Fuehrer towers high above
all our enemies. Nothing can avert
their defeat and disaster"
Tonight, the invading Nazis helc
all the English channel west tt
LIE Havre; Paris itself; strategic
positions behind the Maginot line
and key bridgeheads on the Seine
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SPANISH TROOPS
OCCUPY TANGIER
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(COntlE1ueQ from rage Ule),
en- to guarantee the neutrality of
Tangier, across the straits from
the huge British naval and mill
tary base of Gibraltar.
(In Tours, France, authorized
French circles said the Spanish
occupation of Tangiers was made
with the consent of the Allies.)
The official note of the foreign
office spoke of Spain being pro
visionally charged with the wig
lance, police and security" of Tan
gier but the newspapers and shout
ing demonstrators declared that
Tangiers is forever Spain's."
Heavy guards were posted al
the embassies of France and Brit
ain.
Throngs visited the Italian and
German embassies and cheered theil
war efforts.
The war has disrupted the ex-
istence of the Tangier zone, Which
for years has been governed by
an international commission.
Dispatches from Ceuta, Spanish
Morocco, said that the Spanist
major commanding the Tangier po-
lice conferred with members of the
commission and then asked Spain
to send military forces to main
tain order and guarantee the zones
neutrality. The commission ap-
proved the occupation.
Tangier was internationalized by
a treaty signed before the World
war. 1t was made permanently
neutral by the convention of 1928
and in 1928 Spain was given po'
lice authority in the zone.
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ARMED MERCHANT
CRUISER IS SUNK
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made the New York-Glasgow run
and world cruises. She was a Sis
ter ship Of the Pennsylvania.
She was the third such armed
merchant vessel lost by Britain in
the war. Like her, the 16,697-ton
Rawalpindi sank with her guns
blazing in a fight with the German
pocket battleship Deutschland last
November 20, and the 20,277-ton
Carinthia was reported sunk last
week.
While the navy chalked up this
new loss and gained a new tradi-
ton on the seas, British planes
ranged far today in Europe, Africa
and the Near East, carrying war
in the air to Germany and Italy
and their outposts.
Moreover, word from Cairo told
of the Allied battle fleet engaging
Italian shore guns of Libya on
Wednesday, firing the ~9,000-ton
Italian escort vessel San Giorgio
and two submarines, successfully
attacking other submarines and
sweeping up and destroying a num-
Der of mines.
No Allied warships were report.
ed hit, but an unidentified Dutch
tanker was said to have been sunk
with a loss of four lives.
The ship-.hore engagement took
place while the r. A. F. was bomb
ing Tobruk, Libya.
The royal air force lost five
FLAMES in attacking German bridge
heads IF the Seine and another
went down in strong bombing at
taoks on German lines of COM
munication from Rouen to the
Maginot lines.
In addition, the admiralty de-
clared that the naval air force
scored hits on the German battle-
ship Scharnhorst in Trondheim
tjord early yesterday.
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SHIP TO SAIL

NEW YORK, June A. Up -
Carrying an estimated 1 1000, 900
cargo of food, medical supplies and
hospital trucks, the American Red
Cross mercy ship" McKeesport,
will sail tomorrow for Bordeaux.
France. Large Red Cross emblems
have been painted on the ship,
with spotlights to make them Wis
ible by night. She will carry a
capacity cargo of $4,000, 900 pounds.
At Bordeaux, the cargo will he
distributed by truck to various
refugee centers in southern France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
MARKERS UNVEILED
In BLADEN COUNTY
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and it's historical achievements. In
praising the spirit of the colonial
soldiers, he declared, TT was the
glory of our fathers that they gave
full and unmistakable expression
to the cause of human right and
freedom"
'"They stood for freedom OF
tot rs shrdlu shrdl shrd lshrdlu sh
sent government. The need of the
hour is for men of vision and train
ing in every walk of life to mea-
hrshrw eare,t hen I trust thatsm
been the fundamentals of out pre-
we will discharge our duties as
real citizens should. Let every
man., young and old, realize the
standing of his heritage and the
responsibility of his citizenship"
MIR. Hill gave an account of the
life of General Brown, his great,
great great grandfather, who
served with distinction in the Pat
riots cause in the Revolutionary
war.
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BRITAIN
T EXPRESS
HOPES THAT u. S.
WILL ENTER WAR
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thing short of a declaration OF war
by the United States could e11ec-
lively alter the situation"
The Daily Mail and the Laborlte
Herald rallied at Britain's previous
..complacency" and fantastic un-
preparedness," but both counseled
postponement of the inquest I'M
til later.
Official Britain predicted an
early German peace offensive.
but declared that Allied and United
States industries would build up
"a weight of ornaments with
which Hitler will be quite unable
to compete"
British official circles sought to
put the best face possible on the
fall of Paris, predicting that
France would continue the strug-
gle and noting that the French
withdrawal twas a military, not
a political decision"
Won to Finish
REGARDLESS of the outcome, these
quarters added, Britain is IN the
war to a finish. >
Britain's determination to fight on
despite the reverses in France was
voiced by Harold Nicolson, parlia-
mentary secretary of the ministry OF
information, who declared:
ut will not be on the dry land of
Europe that this war will be won. 1t
will be upon the seas and in the air;
in distant continents; so soon as I'M
limited resources of the British EN-
pire and of the Americas can be
modified to turn the SCALE"
Nicolson, speaking before a LeiceS
ster political meeting, declared Adolf
Hitler's prophecy that England
would be brought to her knees by
mid.August will not be fulfilled"
"And when he finds autumn draw
ing into winter, and that the great
of our own industry as well
those the United States are build
ing up against him a weight of rnla
ments with which he will be quite
unable to compete, he will recognize
that victory is no longer possible.
"Then he will turn and twist in the
hone of inducing this country and
her allies to make peace that will be
more real than the peace he i'm
posed on Czecho -Slovakia.
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from the world when it becomes an
oasis of hope in a desert of despair"
c. D. Hogue, opening his remarks
with "if past events have not con-
WINGED you of the need for prepared
ness, no speaker under Gods heaven
can" talked in behalf of a drastic
program of enforced preparedness.
I'm my humble judgment we must
have universal military training and
we must be willing to subordinate
some of the principles we hold dear
of speech, freedom of as
sembly and freedom of worship"
In showing the need for this sacri~
flee he saic each of these privileges,
improperly used, tend to allow ad-
vocates of alien doctrines to hide un-
der the protection of democracy
while they cry for its downfall.
Need Adequate Training
I'VE must have adequate military
training to meet the menace With
out this training, regardless of all the
equipment you may have, if you send
this equipment into battle manned
by men without knowledge of its
operation, that's not war that's
suicide"
He continued, declaring: I'VE
must put ourselves to the task of
preparing. 1t can't be done in three
months - Hitler has been forming
and training armies in Germany for
seven years.
And you are now seeing in full
flower the coordination of a govern
ment, an army staff, men and ma
chimes. 1t is a machine we must be
prepared to meet"
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PREPAREDNESS IS
URGED AT MEET
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of the Committee for American
Preparedness.
1t was circulated among the au-
dience last night and many sigma
lures were affixed in preparation
for it's submission to the President
and to North Cardinals senators
and representatives. 1t will be cir
culated throughout the city today
for the benefit of any other per-
sons wishing to add their sigma
lures.
Copies may be obtained at the
following places: rooms TIA and 808
in the Murchison building, the main
display room at the Macmillan and
Cameron company and at the Of
flee of Addison H. Hewlett, Jr., in
the I. o. o. F. building.
Purpose Explained
Marshall opened the gathering
by informing the audience of it's
purpose: ITO stimulate an aware
ness of the necessity for American
preparedness"
Rabbi Thurman spoke first, say
i lg: 'Proclain preparedness through
out the land and to all the peoples
thereof.
Stating that this is the flight
of the Lord" he said, ." don't
thipx wa nom MT oil fLo yncrnnCi
bility on the Lord. AS you know,
He helps those who. help them
selves. Let us have some action
To those who bring up the
statement that England and
France W. the United States
money the rabbi said: "They are
paying their debt to us through the
lives of their boys and men. Every
mar in England and France who
is being baptised in blood is pay
ing his country's debt to u.s."
He made a sweeping condemna-
ton of ~subversive activity in the
United States by advocating that
"fevery communist, nazi and fascist
should be deported from the United
States" This statement was greet
ed with wild applause from the
audience.
"Streamlined Termites"
ut is our duty" he said, "to
send them to the nations where
they can enjoy the form of gov
eminent they are advocating here.
Let's get rid of these streamlined
termites.
1.-The United States will be safe
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FRANCE
FRENCH RETREAT
SOUTH OF PARIS
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censorship from Tours generally was
heavy.)
For half an hor a~nti-aircraft guns
Numbered tonight in Tours itself.
Refugees reaching here declared
they had been bombed and machine.
gunned west of Paris yesterday, and
that many had been killed or
wounded.
Next Strong Barrier
Ii n war goes on, the Loire river
line through Tours and Orleans is
the next strong natural barrier for a
new defense.
'CThe valley is the gateway to the
center of France. Orleans, the near
est point to Paris, is 70 miles south
of the capitoD.
The German charge into the very
mouths of the mighty guns in the
Maginot line was said by the French
command to have been spearheaded
with tanks and airplanes, all of
which were declared beaten back.
1t had been acknowledged earlier,
however, that Nazi thrusts between
Paris and the Maginot- line were
threatening it from the rear and that
the line was being turned from
Montmedy, it's northern anchor.
From Bern. Switzerland, it was
reported that what German-Ttalian
sources called a death blow" ap-
peared to threaten France through
a German offensive on the upper
Rhine coordinated with an italian Of
fensive on the Maritime Alps.
Well Prepared
(Allied sources called such a disas-
ter POSSIBLE" but said France was
so well-armed and prepared in those
sectors that such double blows could
be struck only if the French fail
to hold the German onslaught south
of Paris.
German troop concentrations north
of the Swiss border apparently were
still there awaiting orders.
(Neutral sources said the French
had little to fear from an Italian
land drive across the Alpine fortress
regions but that the valleys of the
Durance and Rhone rivers might be
reached by air.
Qn this connection reports circu-
lated in Switzerland that both Ger
man and italian parachute troops
had arrived at italian air bases in
the provinces of Piedmont and Lii
guria.
Last Hours
The last hours of Paris as a free
city of France were described sadly
here today by a few of those civilians
who had stayed on there almost to
the end.
They told of small groups of men
unwilling to leave in the face of any
disaster - still sitting in alternate
sun and shadow at the boulevard
cafes; of a city filled with a great
and unaccustomed silence where only
the police still stood guard.
The high command did not say
specifically where the German effort
to storm the Maginot line occurred,
other than that it was west of the
Saar river, MOI over how wide a
front.
But the stretch westward from
Sarreguemines, where the river joins
the line, to Montmedy, the lines
western extremity, is II miles.
This frontal attack apparently was
intended to coordinate with the turn
ing operation effected by the Ger
mans.
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ITALY
ITALY PLANS TO
HARASS ALLIES
AT MANY POINTS
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war, the Italian High Command
reported it's forces fought off Brit
.ish attacks on Libya from Egypt
and on Ethiopia from Kenya.
The High command reported the
Italian fleet was active in tn
Mediterranean, where events were
topped off by the occupation of the
international ~neutralized zone
of Tangier, Morocco, by two divi-
sions of Generalissimo Francois
Spanish troops and a Spanish des'
troyer.
Enemy submarines, said the
Rome High command, attempted
without result to oppose the move
ment of our fleet. Two enemy sub
marines were hit and one serious
ly damaged"
Raid Airports
Italian operations included raids
on the airports of Hyeres and Fay
ence and the naval base of Toulon,
all in southeastern France, as well
as on detectives in Tunis and
along the Red Sea.
There Italian planes failed to re.
turn from these missions.
An Allied attack supported by
tanks was reported turned back on
the frontier between Egypt and
Libya.
On the lower Ethiopian border,
an attack from Moyale, Kenya,
with artillery and bombing plane
support reported repulsed, with
number of English officers cap
tured.
Meantime, an Italian dispatch
from Domo D'Ossola on the Swiss
frontier said that a train from
Rome with French diplomats
aboard had been waiting at the
border since yesterday for a train
for Paris bringing the Italian dip
lomatic party from Paris.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
THE STANDINGS
American League
GAMES

LULA
NEW YORK, June 14-(F-Probable
pitchers in the major leagues tomorrow
(won-lost records in paretntheses):
National League
Cincinnati at Brooklyn-Walters (9-2)
VS.. Carleton go.
Chicago at Boston-French (7-4) VS..
Posedel $50.
Pittsburgh at New York - Bowman
go VS.. Hubbell (5-2) or Schumacher
(2-6).
st. Louis at Philadelphia - Cooper
(0-3) VS.. Beck (2-1).
American League
New York at st. Louis-Pearson (5-2)
VS.. Bildilli (2-4).
Boston at Chicago-Hash (4-3) VS..
Smith $3.50.
Washington at Detroit (2)--Hudson
(3-S) and Leonard $50 VS.. Newson
(6-D and Corsica DID.
Philadelphia at Cleveland Caster
90 VS.. Dobson O-2).
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STEAMER SAILS

NEW YORK, June 14-RHThe
American. export lines said today
their steamer Exochorda sailed
from Genoa, Italy, last night with
203 passengers aboard, en- route
to the United States. Officials of
the line said the ship did not put
back to port for additional passen-
gers.
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CONSUL SAYS NAILS
WILL NOT FORGET
AMERICAS STAND
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the status of the schools German
professor, a Viennese refugee op-
posed to Nazi theories.
Won Spiegel said the books IN
question were -four or five fairy
tales" offered as prizes o stu
dents, and denied any effort to In
stitute Nazi propaganda in the UNI
versity.
Won Spiegal today disclaimed
any German territorial ambitions
in the western hemisphere, saying
specifically Germany does n t
want Florida, Georgia or Louis
lana"
He said:
IT am confident that the Ger
man government will be satisfied
with regaining her possessions IN
Africa-and possibly a little ore.
Will Remember
Nevertheless my country will
not forget that the United States
did everything in its power to aid
her enemies" he said, intimating
a reduction in German American
trade.
''The new Germany will be self
sufficient, with oil from Holland
and Rumania, and wheat and wool
from her friend, Russia, and count
less other supplies from other Eur
opean countries"
Won Spiegel said Spain would
soon join the conflict against
France, which he predicted would
capitulate lin a matter of days"
He said Germany had %, 900 fight
ing planes despite losses.
Won Spiegel was a World war u
boat commander until his capture
by the British in 1917.
The States quoted Won Spiegel
as follows:
When General Weygand a n q
Monsieur Reynaud get together and
realize that the United States isn't
going to send any more men, they
will capitulate as did Leopold. Of
Belgium, who foresaw the might
and power of the German army.
Germany has at her command
some % 1000 fighting planes, in
spite of losses of the current cam
paign. The German high COM
mand never issues a communique
unless the figures are authentic,
so we may be sure that the losses
of the Allied planes-3, 500-is a
true and exact figure.
Since the Allied armies OF
France and England only boosted
a full fighting strength of 10, 00(
planes, the loss of one-third of this
number is a definite detriment to
and futre campaign if there
are any future campaigns.
Have Been Preparing
For the past 20 years we have
been preparing, while France ano
England have been sleeping, ex'
peeting that they were safe.' ;
"Our tanks have proven their
effectiveness in the Flanders cam.
paigns and in the current. battle
for the French capital. No matter
how brave the French troops are
and there is no doubt that they
are marvellous troops-they cannot
use bravery against the force ano
power of the deadly tanks and
mechanical units of our Tightening
army.
Germany does not want Flori
da, Georgia or Louisiana, nor dc
they want any portion of the west.
ern hemisphere. I am confident
that the German government will
be satisfied with regaining her pos.
sessions in Africa, and possibly a
little more.
Nevertheless, my country will
not forget that when she was fight.
ing bitterly for her very life, the
United States gave every material
aid to her enemies. q
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TsTANBUL, June 14@RETurk-
;sh maritime authorities amour
ced tonight that navigation off the
southwest coast of Turkey is ex-
tremeiy peSilous because of mines
laid by tie Italians around the
Italian-owned Dodecanese islands.
Turkish ships were ordered to
avoid these waters until the def
mite location of the mine field is
known. 4
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NEW YORK, June 14.-R-Mrs.
harrison Williams, often called enc
u the worlds best dressed women,
nay forfeited jeweIry valued at
slV'0Vo which had been seized by
sustohls inspectors, a libel filed in
.uefal court disclosed today.
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BRITAIN PLANS TO
PURCHASE ALL ARMS
AVAILABLE in u. S.
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NSolltAAANSu
An idea of Britain's pro-
spective "al out" expendi-
lures may be had from a
authoritative estimate that her
purchases of machine tools
along can swallow the entire
export capacity of the United
States to the rate of lb.2 ,OOO,-
900 (about So, 600, 0O0) a month.
The World War weapons
sought are those that the
United States manufactured
toward the end of the old
hostilities to replace, those OBJ
tanned by America from the
Allies.
WASHINGTON, June IA R -
United States officials estimated
today that the British and French
empires still have roughly $1,000
900, 900 of ''quick assets" with
which they could purchase supplies
Immediately in the United States.
These assets include gold, cash
deposits and American securities.
The officials, however, indicated
that lack of materials to be bought
quickly was much more of a pro-
blem of the Allies than the avail
ability of cash for payment. They
pointed out that in spite of press
ing needs for alrplanes ever since
the war began, the Allies h a v e
had to sign some contracts for
planes not expected to be ready
for delivery until September, 194l.
War department officials S a i d
surveys we're being
made to determine what additional
for sale to the Allies.
They would give no indication
as to what such supplies might be,
but emphasized that the depart
ment was not selling any equip
ment in the hands of troops OF
the national guard.
I'VE are not de-arming the
army" a spokesman said. 3