Sherbrooke daily record, 25 mai 1940, samedi 25 mai 1940

[" WEATHER Cloudy with showers, i>torbronkf iailu Irairii TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, /2; minimum, 50.Same day last year: Max., 73; min., 38» Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940.Forty-Fourth Year.FRENCH FORCES ADVANCING PINCER THRUST Break Used By Motorized Units Reduced Ten Miles Through French Assault Great Battle Continues Unabated as Allies Seek to Nip Off Thin German Advance Into Flanders, French High Command Reports\u2014Hundreds of Prisoners Taken as Allies Register Local Successes in Mopping-Up Operations\u2014French Defenders Resist Advance of Motorized Units Against Channel Ports \u2014 Gap Reported a Veritable No Man\u2019s Land.Britain And France Conducting Large-Scale Drive On Gossip Paris, May 2o.\u2014\u2014French troops advanced ten miles in the Allied effort to nip off tlhe German thin advance into Flanders, bait the great battle there raged unabated, a military spokesman said today.The gap through which German motorized units dashed was reduced in width to twenty miles.The spokesman said German detachments which penetrated into St.Omer, twenty-two miles Southeast oi' the Channel port of Calais, were being held off by the French defenders.He said fighting was continuing in the regions of Abbeville,- on the Somme River, twelve miles from the Channel, and Boulogne, Channel port south of Calais.He announced the British and#- French air forces were laying down heavy bombardments on the German rear lines, on troop concentrations and on lines of communication.The whole front is \u201cwithout change,\u201d he said.While the morning communique of the High Command reported consolidation of positions on the Somme and the taking of \u201ca certain number of prisoners,\u201d the chief objective of the French army was to bite through the German salient driven toward the Channel just north of the Somme.The War Office spokesman said: \u2018Hundreds of prisoners\u201d were taken in local successes, mopping-up operations where Nazi, troops had established bridgeheads south of Amiens.He said the irregular, jagged French line from Valenciennes through Cambrai, Arras and St.Omer to Boulogne remained unchanged, while the breech in the Peronne-Bapaume area still was not Hosed.But he reported Allied troops were moving in a pincer advance intended to trap the fast-moving German \u201cPanzer\u201d units which have streaked through this corridor toward the English Channel and at the same time to establish connection between the main French force on the Somme and the Allied armies in Flanders and Belgium.\u201cThe war of movement continued throughout the north and northwest,\u201d the spokesman said, with detachments moving in between enemy groups while isolated units fought against opposing advance guards.South of Sedan, where fighting is progressing favorably in the wooded section, the spokesman said the French had recovered all ground lost to the Germans.He descried engagements in this region as \u201cvery Continued on page 2, col.6.#- BRITISH PLANES DESTROY OR DAMAGE FORTY GERMAN CRAFT London, May 25.\u2014© \u2014 The Air Ministry declared today that British planes destroyed or seriously damaged forty German bombers and fighter planes over the French and Belgian battle-fronts yesterday while losing ten.A communique said thirty-one German planes were seen to \u201cburst into flames or crash on landing'\u2019 and nine more were put out of action.Civil Mobilization Decree Paves Way To Italian Move New Edict, Supported by Other Ominous Signs, Indicates that Italian Entry Into Conflict May Not Be Long Delayed\u2014 Italy Reported to Have Rejected Latest Allied Compromise Overtures as \u201cToo Late.\u201d -# - Rome, May 25.\u2014AÆ1)\u2014Geared for By PAT USSHER (Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, May 25.\u2014©\u2014By poster, cartoon and film, Britain and Eramv are hammering home to their people the dangers of gossip in -.vartime.In both countries an intensive drive has been launched to warn the John Smiths and the Jacques Duponts that idle talk may imperil lives and help the enemy.\u201cBe a 100 per cent oyster\u201d is ,ne injunction of authorities to British ; fighting forces.The same admonition has been given men and women behind the lines.Southampton leads the country-wide campaign with an Anti-Gossip Week that starts tomorrow.Banners in j principal streets bear anti-gossip slogans, three Ministry of Inf rma-Jtion films are to be shown depicting jthe danger of loose tongues and ser-unons will drive home the same warning.People overheard chattering will find bits of white cardboard slipped into their hands.These say on one side; \u201cWith the compliments of the chairman and members of the Anti-Gossip Committee, the Ministry of Information,\u201d and on the reverse \u201cDon\u2019t you think gossip may be dangerous ?\u201d Posters plastered all over Britain remind people of the virtues of silence.They warn: \u201cDon\u2019t help the enemy.Careless talk may give away vital secrets.\u201d Cartoons tell the same story by appeal to the nation\u2019s sense of humor, And films supply a vivid [visual lesson.\u201cThe first thing wc have to do is I to teach people what gossip s,\u201d an | official told The Canadian Press.! \u201cThere are even plenty of officers !who don't know.\u201d He told how one false rumor was [spread early in the war that Reading would be bombed by enemy air- KING IN CALL FOR UNITY TO DEFEAT REICH Guarantee of Final Victory Can Be Found in Uprising of People of Empire, His Majesty Declares.London, May 25.¦ © -Britain\u2019s Uiarantec of final victory in th ¦ war \" .,tho nodoby takes any notice of you.\u201d 'The Nazi intelligence service uses | planes.The rumor was traced from a local grocer to an insurance agent to a town councillor to a plumber and so on.Each one was supposed to have heard the warning in a broadcast but each said he had the! information second hand.Finally a girl cashier in a store was discovered to have started the report.She admitted inventing it and telling a deliveryman for her firm.Asked why, she said: \u201cOh, just for sIXlîinw Vliu \\°U hT t0 haW \"'ith Germany can bo found in something to tell, haven\u2019t you, or | s,.eat uprisinR.of jh(, lcg throughout iho Empire,\" the King ,\t, [told his subjects in an Empire Day subtle means to draw out people,broadcast last night, who may have useful information.! ,,\t, Hints that a battleship on trials at-!,, He ca,.led f°>' courage and remiu; tained less than its contract speedn\ta']d f may bring a denial-and correct in-1\tow\tiè Tr I\" formation - from an enthusiastic I\t\u2018*\u2018;o'\"Plete »nd engineer or naval man.Spreadingj His Majesty made his Einpire-of rumors or damage to war factory,wi(U.bl.oad(,,si a V(,ai.to (h\u201e af.may elicit stones about the factory.itcr his memorable message to hb Keen war-workers or members o | peopks fl nm Winnipeg during the the f ghtmg services may find it;Royal UHn.of Canada, hard to resist enthusing about their; n(, askoi! his pubjects everywhere work to friends and even sociable lo join with the people of the Bnl i,E strangers.\ti Lies in Sunday\u2019s day of national A typical approach was made to a :prayer, turning \u201cat this fateful naval officer shortly after the Royal; hour, as our fathers before us hav, slu'l Eight Persons Injured In German Air Attacks Over Yorkshire Region Large Steel Plant Believed Objective of Series of Lone Raider Attacks During Night\u2014Most of Bombs Dropped During Raid Fell Harmlessly in Open Spaces \u2014 British Navy Halting Attempts of Germans to Leave Coast.uns person Bri repor! the Ci .nmlon, Ma\\ 2?>.© Gorman bombs injured til Irtisi eight in \\orkshiro hisl nighl, Ike Air Minisln disclosed today, but breotiled a liltlc easier as Franco announced that yesterday's hot Boulogne had talion to the Germans in their drive toward innel was erroneous.I'hroe of Yorkshire's injured, first the Second Great War, were taken Ut elation said the Air Ministry's eslhnak asserted eleven were hurt.T he ten-minute raid was made b\\ Fnglish civilian casualties in ospital and the Press Asso-of the injured was low.It at a one plane, apparently aiming plan! which was sligdidv damaged by a bomb.A man came up to \u201cTerrible news, sir, Oak was sunk, him ami said isn\u2019t it?\u201d The officer asked \u201cWhat news?\u201d \u201cOh, they've got the Repulse,\u201d he was told.\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything in the PNPer,\u201d he replied.\u201cNo sir,\u201d said the stranger, \u201cIt\u2019s only just come through on the radio.It is really terrible.Now whereabouts would she be sir?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d said the officer, true to the traditions of the silent service.In France the campaign is being carried on similarly.An anti-gossip exhibition is being held in Paris.turned in all times of (rial, to Go I Continued on page 2.col.4.GERMANS CLAIM HISTORIC VIMY RIDGE SEIZED Allied Sources Refuse to Confirm Reports that First War Battlefield Has Changed Hands.Berlin, May 25.\u2014©\u2014Vimy Ridge, transports.the scene of Canada\u2019s greatest vie-j g_______Intensified tory in the First Great War, waslti0I1S-claimed today by the German Highj 4\u2014Rumors that Command.\tG\u2019ected Allied war, her entire resources subject to conscription under a new civil mobilization order, Italy was ready today for Premier Mussolini to press the button that could plunge her into the European conflict as an illy o' Germany.All signs indicated that the move might not be long in coming.Among the ominous indications, topped by passage of the civil mobilization decree, were: 1\u2014\tReports that additional clasie.î j of army and naval reserves had been called to the colors.2\u2014\tPostponement of the sailings of ! three big trans-Atlantic liners\u2014[ which might possibly serve as troop HEAVY FIRING REPORTED SWISS BORDER French Artillery Said to Have Taken Offensive in Engagement Near South End of Maginot Line.THREEHUNDRED Equalization Of Allowance For Army Dependents Urged Conservative Members Urge Uniform Payments for Dependent Mothers of Members of Canadian Active Service Force\u2014Minor Amendments to Regulations Promised by Government.(The German claim of the capture jjeiiaxa{;ion ()f j-Rg of Vimy Ridge was not confirmed in'blockade.advices from Paris and London.) j 5___________Increasingly The German communique said: ! ^5 0n the Allies and new anti-Âi-\u201cBetween Valcenciennes and Vimy [lied street demonstrations, the attack on both sides of Douai Northwestern London, May 25.\u2014((P) \u2014 Reuters News Agency reported today from blackout prépara-1 Basel, Switzerland, that heavy gun-[fire had been heard at the Swiss end Il Duce had re- of the Western Front early today, concessions\u2014including\tThe dispatch said that French Ottawa, May 25.\u2014 ©\u2014Conservative members, speaking in the general discussion of the nieusui ¦ for a $700,000,000 war appropriation, ogl'd in the House of Commons n.'tori' the chamber rose for the week end that allowances paid mothers of men of the fighting forces should bo uniform.Mothers\u2019 allowances y e s t @ r d a y shared attention with home defence ______ [and the recruiting and training of Two Important Cities of Peru^™118 for the 2mi an