Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pages Winnipeg Friday May 17, 1940 showers. Anes Tan London May 17. Up a u1 i misery said la i hat has Over aircraft Pic invasion of the Low countries a week Allied losses were it Only a fraction o 1.4g2 which Derma is claim they have hot Down. Amplifying an earlier telling of l or her attacks on Germany Liy the Loyal air Force the ministry statement said Many objectives received direct hits. To Brit ish Aii Craft was lost. Deciani a queenly London May 17. Up a magnetic mine was dropped Crom a German plane within 40 Yards of inc British destroyer carrying Queen Wilhelmina to safely in Britain in was Learned to j Day. A British Navy officer who told the Story said 1 have never seen a woman so completely the officer who was in charge Home. May 17. Of a British destroyer flotilla As inc dutch authorities at the of Holland described the As walking unruffled and sedately Down the jetty and asking to be taken to Flushing. At sea. The Queen decided to go to Britain because of danger on every Side in her own country. Against great Britain unofficial Cool when lie fell the lion of Rome during the night Quot Hafi uns advised to leave officials have their nationals government is re the egyptian red to have the Allied Fleet has mat led Man up havas frenc Holland s ruler Cool in danger Retreat in says Paris May 17. Maurice Camelin in an order of Hie said tonight thai every French unit unable to Advance must accept death rather i Han. Abandon its the Fate of the country and that of the allies and the destiny of the world depends on the Battle now taking Camelin said. English belgian and polish soldiers volunteers fight at our he declared. The British air Force is engaged up to the Hilt like he said. Every unit which is unable to Advance must accept death rather than abandon that part of the National territory entrusted to he declared. As always in the critical hours of our he said the watchword today is conquer or die we must by Wallace Carroll London May 17. Are driving toward Laon and Marie about 70 Miles Northeast of Paris it was reported reliably tonight and Allied troops Are withdrawing from their Brussels defence positions because of a German flanking threat. The belgian government has moved to Ostend. The German thrust toward. Laon and Marie is being car ried out it was understood by two mechanized and armoured columns. These columns appeared to be driving in the immediate direction of Soissons on the River Somme. But it was denied emphatically Here that they had reached that Point. It was indicated that these Ger he Man columns broke through the i Gap in he French fortified Between Xvi Zieres and j same breach through which other columns thrust and then wheeled northwestward for die dash to Ward the English Channel. The drive toward the Channel ports. M was said forced the allies to give up their lines defending Brussels and retire to avoid be ing isolated from their commune Winnipeg flier Iorg flight Licule Nant Harvey Jasper j g and three other Royal air Force fliers killed today when their big crashed near Coburg ont. The machine mushroomed with a crash in a swamp in the and wreckage was spread on were plane cation France. Nazi forces 1 and Supply lines into sources claimed their iad entered Brussels and tanks hurled by Sam Robertson. London. May 17. Up cubic their break through in the Sedan area of France the Ger Man armoured divisions used tanks larger and More heavily i also reached the outer fortifications of Antwerp i despite Allied withdrawals it was said Here fighting continues in Wal Cheryn in Zeeland province. A possible indication Itiat a Disper ate stand will be made to hold the dutch and belgian Channel ports armed than those that rolled the British Public tonight was be through Poland ing prepared Tor bad news from 1 he a British military source which fighting lines. The British press As j revealed this estimated that Socia Tion distributed a despatch to 1 inc nazis used Throe armoured Divi hundreds of British newspapers de i each having about 400 tanks daring that the press must inform j in cracking the French deduces the Public thai die present Situa and into Northern France. It was that hitlers hordes did not strike at the Maci nol defences but rather at the Extension of the line which if considerably weaker than tie renin fortifications. The French do Jend Tion must be regarded As one of extreme the situation was described by reliable sources As the most Serou since the great German drive of March 1918, when inc threatened to crumple the whole Al lied defence system in France. With the military situation thus blow. Ers were described As surprised by the direction and weight of the developing serious threats to the Allied positions the press association distributed its significant despatch declaring that the British press has not As yet represented the situation in its True Gravity. The despatch declares that authoritative British quarters believe it is the duty of the press to ill the Public How serious the present de tic germans came through the defence lines on not a very wide but still considerable front. In Advance of the column of steel and fire that penetrated into France were Waves of dive bom Bers railing everything before them. They were followed by heavy tanks and then infantry. Some to Earl ii and the Trees for mired fuselage found at 3 a.m., Yards the about Adolf Hitler s newspaper Manion so to Al Kischer Boob Achtor. Ominously ago. Thai the allies arc plotting to been under j invade Germany through re from the Virty this Echo of the charge made and outside the nazis invaded the Low is i deeply con countries deepened the fear Here j Var and the part that Switzerland is shortly to be j in it. That it May i bomber downed j Switzerland May 17 ;