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MAY 12, 1940. SUNDAY MORNING. Britain's Flyers Strafe Pope Backs Lowlands Pontiff Prays Nazis Will Lose as Fascists Increase Allied Blasts Nazis Dent Belgian Line Brussels Reports Foes Have Gained Foothold in Maastricht Area 7 I 1. Nazi Mechanized Legions Attacks Play Havoc With Tanks and Trucks; Fifty Enemy Planes Reported Destroyed LONDON, May 12 (Sunday.) (JP) The Royal Air Force, following up morning raids, again attacked German mechanized forces advancing from the Rhine toward the Meuse late yesterday, the Air Ministry announced early today. E(fN TiT A Jjf Frotterdam; VGELDERN tJt BRUSSELS, May 11.

(ff) The Air Ministry's eommuni- ROME, May 11. (P) Amid mounting Fascist feeling against Great Britain, marked by anti-British posters and a slugging incident, Pope Pius XII sent his blessing from the Vatican today to Germany's Supported by planes and armored cars, powerful German forces won a foothold in Belgium defense positions near The Netherlands city of Maastricht today. But a government communi i que; "German mechanized troops advancing from the Jthine toward the Meuse were again harassed yesterday (Saturday) by a series of attacks made by aircraft of the Royal Air Force. leading out of Maas British Incendiary bombs also subjected the German-occupied Rotterdam airport to what was described as the heaviest bombardment of the war in a six-hour raid in the face of terrific ground fire. Vires were started In different part 5 of the airdrome, and the British pilots said they left 20 four-engined German, craft que tonight reported the Nazis had sustained "heavy losses' In mk 'w i attacks on Belgian fortifications, SPOT NEWS Miss Virginia Cowles, American reporter, pushed by demonstrators.

aflame. and claimed "our positions remained intact" ar6und the fortified town of Liege. RKPORT FORT TAKEN' (The German high command claimed capture of Eben Emael, strongest fort in the Liege chain commanding the crossing of the NlW ff cologne tricht were bombed and a few miles southwest of the town on the road to Tonvres a column of small tanks, armored cars and transport vehicles was attacked and several direct hits were obtained." The War Ministry kept silent on the disposition of British-French forces in the Low Countries, but the Air Ministry saidj Its forces had attacked German i newest enemies, with prayers for their victory. Messages to the Catholic rulers of Belgium and Luxembourg and to rrotestant Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, whose countries have, been attacked "against their will and right," told of the rope's prayers for their liberation. POSTKRS PROTESTED Sir Percy Loraine, the British Ambassador, was paid In reliable quarters to have protested to Italian authorities against both a swarm of posters which sought to impress Italians with the Ger man army's superiority, and a reported assault upon two British diplomats last night.

The Italians counterbalanced this with an intensified campaign Albert Canal and the Meuse River at the west of Allied Might Stems Germans Nazis Hurled Back at Maginct Line but Gain Belgian Foothold I 1 1 15 miles north of Liege itself. D.N.B. official German news concentrations between the Rhine and the Meuse and that "hits were obtained on a bridge over the Rhine near Wesel and one line of traffic at its approaches." At least 50 German planes agency, said another Liege fort fell into German hands against the vexations of the Al I lied contraband control of their 1 1111 Tonight's communique said: "During the day important sea commerce. Premier Musso lini applauded in the Senate enemy forces, with the aid of incessant bombardments carried when Admiral Domenico Cavag-nari, Undersecretary of the declared the "disturbance" were reported destroyed and Continued from First Page many others put out of In the first day's raids in 11 Pnes. with 11 more lowlands missing, but said they had de- The 'enemy's advance between 300 and 400 further hampered bv a series of enemy aircraft on the ground operations In which bombs air fights, seen to hit important railways! Tne rival tolls of planes bore and road junctions and bridges grave witness to the Gargantuan at Alderkcrke, Gelgern.

Rees' proportions on which the war out by powerful aerial units and supported by armored cars, attacked In the Maastricht region. of Italy's shipping must change. A Luca Pietromarchi, chief of the "Economic Office of the A rfVJT 11 I I "Thev succeeded In getting a foothold in our defense line. Foreign Ministry, reported to II Duce that the Allied contraband "Our troops in Luxembourg and Goch." the ministry's com- now is oeing fought continued their operations fol munique said. control is becoming "ever more lowing a preconceived plan and vigorously held their own vexatious," and called attention to the "dcriousness of the situa ATTACKED John T.

Whit-aker tells of street fight with Fascists in Rome. against the invaders. "Around Liege our positions A French communique commented that German troops, landing at interior points, had created a "troubled" situation in The Netherlands. As these parachute soldiers and machine-gunner passengers of transport planes continued to land in the invaded countries, tion." TAYLOR RKCKIVKO Thundering Force Moves Against Germans WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, SOME-WHERE IN BELGIUM. May 11.

remain intact. The enemy has suffered heavy losses before cer Italian newspapers and radio tain of our fortifications. marie no mention of the Pope's J'Rome Shows "The enemy aviation a W) Motorized British units carried out systematic bombard tll(, however, the Dutch and Belgians pounded eastward across iments, attacking numerous French-Belgian frontier tonight said they wcre cleaning them mes-sages, which were made public after the Pontiff had received several diplomats, including Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, in private audiences. in a rumbline stream that al-' eiieciivcjy.

Hate for Allies localities over a great part of our territory." An earlier communique said ready has lasted for 21 L.M) FIGHTING GOUV while British flyers hurled de-j Und nghting foIlowed a stmction from the skies on Ger- gory -fTS. 'Vm, linei('(lnurd from FirM Tage A EllW Two American newsnanor cor- i tact witn German advance units the North American Newspaper respondents, Whitaker, "in several sectors" of the front. I Alliance. i Rome representative of the Chi- and claimed at ljat 15 German! Escorting her to the door Daily News, 'and Miss Vir-planes were shot down. "Very; found the posters panted on the ginia Cowles, whose articles are active" operations of Belgian' hotel facade.

While we were syndicated by the North Amer- fl imj" "iri muss 1 i PmetzH I liyers and anti-aircraft batteries reading them, seven men, ap- lean Newspaper Alliance, were hvere cited parently thinking that the post- involved in the Incident in which ers were being torn down, at- two British diplomats were tacked us without warning. -roughed up by a crowd of angry man columns moving through Luxembourg toward the French ''enjl German and Belgian borders division of about 11,000 rammed British Tommies, cheered bv Maginot Line near the populace, already guarded 'Luxembourg a vain effort to every bridge ami railway cross- a Aversion from the sharp ing on the 250-mile motor route. in Luxembourg itself. Anti aircraft batteries dotted the 1 and median-fields, and dispatch riders on mo. izo1 units artillery and infan-torcvcles sped past the artillery try meanwhile pushed Into the carriers, tanks and troop-laden embattled lowlands in ever-lorries that picked up dusty numbers.

Both the spirals on the roads. ch antl Belgians reported At- lied troops already at their sides, NAZI BMSTKI) but exact locations were not dis- The German mechanized units closed, coming iip from the other side rorK move vp Chief points of contact between GERMANS GAIN GROUND Hammering Allies from Holland to Moselle River sector, Nazis gained yesterday, but at heavy cost. Map shows developments as follows: (1) German troops land at The Hague; (21 Nazis advance into Holland as Dutch retreat; (3) Slicing through Limberg Province, Germans batter Maastricht, claiming capture of fort at Liege and pounding Mqtmedy sector; (4) German columns in Luxembourg reported halted; (5) Full division'of Nazis, 14,000 men, smashed at Maginot Line near Sierck. Shaded area in Holland shows area to be flooded for defense. Shaded lines in Belgium and France locate defense lines.

Underlined cities air raid targets. Wtrfpho'a uie Lcwan ana ucrman torces ll0t stnick( wnon phe refused to Whitaker and Miss Cowles had were said to be along the Albert the mrn and cntcr the been dinner guests of George La Canal and the Meuse River secretary of the Brit- the Ardennes Mountains fac-l lish Embassy, and Comdr. Rodd. ng German-occupied I OLK 'assistant naval attache, nd bourg. I A crowd of some oQ men who hrinr home when While Pope Pius gave his mo- British planes which loosed 'Heavily equipped British andj had been parting up posters attack occurred, i French troops, bringing up artil-i collected.

As the street fighters ilery, tanks and engineering equip-ibegan to argue among thom-(TVH FIGHT VKKSIOXS jment, moved through Relglum to 'selves, the diplomats entered thei One version was that the party jundisclosed positions and Nazi hotel and telephoned Sir Noel incurred the wrath of the Black- bombers raided Brussels and( Charles, the British Minister shirts by attempting to remove other communication center sand Loraine's conscllor of Em-'a poster to keep as a souvenir, through the second day of Another report said the party attack on the Low Coun-j After a long harangue with the 'merely was reading the poster tries. 'ringleaders in which he was when seven men attacked the Dutch Counterattack Drives Nazis From Border Town Every German Soldier on Armed Train Killed by Stubborn Defenders of Homeland Russia in Pact With Yugoslavs Trade and Navigation Treaty Signing Told by Soviet News Agency showers of small bombs and1 encouragement to rulers of, epravs of machine-gun bullets. Invaded countries and Skipping over the swarm of F'f'1 their. Oration, feel-refugees who preceded the in llal-v Ranst Great Urit-man line of march, the British ain rose t0 a vloleilt PlUh-airmen returned to the attack! The British Ambassador in again and again, and bombs fell Rome protected the sudden ap-1 amid lines of -10 and of) German pearance of many anti-British motor trucks which piled up in posters in the Italian rapital and heaps of smoking wreckage. assault upon two British dip-1 Other British a lomatic attaches there.

rained bombs on a German col-' chafed against the Allied! German planes also continued pushed but not struck, Sir Noel three men without warning and to drop parachute troops. I realized that his renuest that slugged them. Miss Cowles was iContiiiucd from First Page I "According to last reports from the Germans had 'crossed a an oIJ 0,1 rcss our forcps nel( either the on stubbornly despite ene- MOSCOW. May 11. (P)-Sig- lirnn at the northeast corner of contraband control system, too, I'll'nH lll-Ai-IIIMnllii i.

i. A I'KTSiuuuoiv wie ucrman-ijuxcmoourg nortier, ner wen- naiun- ii a uiur mm im inui-ii mv. action. warniOfl in thn nrml.i.llirrnf. lu'tu-npn tlm "snvint 1 'ninn JSP1, Cast Of Amnem, Or tllO But the Belgian communique: police be summoned was impos-: pushed around, but not struck.

claimed neither of these branches jsible. The police were not on post The Britons then telephoned -of the German air arm had! in the period when the propa-i British Minister Sir Noel Charle? ibeen particularly effective. It'ganda sheets were being pasted Britain maintains both an Am-'reported the enemy bombard-'up. Jbassador and a Minister In Rome incnts, two of which were aimed! He hailed two passing motor-. and he hurried to the scene, at Brussels, had caused no "im-'cycle policemen.

When they Sir Noel hailed two passing po-portant damage." and that most'heard his difficulty, they declined licemcn, but witnesses said they of the parachute troops were 'to intervene and rode away. refused to intervene. Eventual- a "uuiioiiii oi v. The enemy succeeded In pass ent bench. and Yugoslavia was announced Maas, further south.

fire from small arms and antiaircraft guns. ing a river. tonight by Tass, otliclal Soviet The front line defenders, how- KOOSKVKLT ACTS news agency. pvei- hnH c-rnmnlichoH Ihnlr IMlgUSn air lorCCS naVC Tlie British reported no lots President Roosevelt proclaimed- Of personnel despite persistence Vl(1 rie fflS SfZ of a9rlal retaliation, as r.tL Jtu. port still in German hands (pre- or neutralized." LStOUTLI) TO (AUS 'Ported the foreigners to their Sir Noel, his colleagues and rnriJ thev found rov.

PLANE TOLLS GIVKV Brussels was bombed twice then crossed the street, surround-1 V- 1 Jill 4 1 VV 1 U- this morning, and two personsied by the crowd, and telephoned sjs-0(j hcy bo removed, and the (were killed while seeking sheila police station from another p0h'CP chicf complied. Iter from the raids. Returning; hotel. Eventually a police officer! Only La Botichere was injured. I LA I's SII01 IK)N the Lmted States Neutral-'jn-io and' mil will amount to' water line defenses in the mably, Waalhaven.) Gorman One German Ileinkel and one Act.

He informed King Leo- no.oon.tXX) dinars. (The Yugoslav' middle Netherlands have penet'-atcd from this Dornier bomber wrrc shot down. tl10 Belgians that Amer- dinar has a nominal exchange; airport to some points and vigor- wh. a large German force, ducked and angry, value of about 2U cents, but! Mo'POei; 1)0 0i" ous action is now proceeding raided a Royal Air Force sta- 3' the German actions and hoped SHTini conditions make accurate Munlll noklil1 0llt "Sinst the lhcin Policies which to truncation of the amount mv Germans. British Hurricane peaceful and indepen- possible.) I The town that was recaptured Sl illS1, went up to meet them and peoples through force and, Tass reported that a supple-bv the Dutch was identified in' "An attempt to take police niui.uiuimn muMvii v.

niiiuu, nun, ii.in., v.i.v... jje received sngni maiKs on tne other casualties. Air raid alarms I strate with the Fascists, be es-Jfacc Both British and Italian 'continued at the rate of twojeorted the foreigners to their tirtc described the incident as Ian hour, but there were nocars. "regrettable." Authorities of (further Important bombings. Both cars had been covered nations declined to com-j A report from Rlxensart, about with the posters.

Your corre-inicnt-10 miles from Brussels, said four spondent pondered the advisable! 'soldiers were killed in a bom-'ity of a prompt and orderly rc SBIIIINd (i.M isi.l) ibardmcnt there. Almost, 15-' treat, after four hours of fight-1 The shipping situation in th miles west of the capital, also; ing and wrangling. But Sir Mediterranean stiil was cpn-j was reported bombed, and flights ias representative of His Majes-Jfused. British merchantmen of German planes were sighted jty's government, insisted thatcontinued to call at Italian ports, over Namur and Dinant, pout h-: the posters be first removed from, but it was not known whether east of the two cars. This the were using the Mediterra- 'front of the town.) 'chief did with considerable apprc-jnean for through trips to th.j twrt more German planes in ainuutaiy agressions may he ar- mentary protocol provides for Allied advices as Mill, 10 miles headquarters somewhere in Hoi-sn'raming dog-fight witnessed rfp1, I.Snviet trade representation In inside the frontier and about the 'und (The Hague) by surprise by' gaping thousands of civilians! 11,0 Alllos PcoI a precati- Yugoslavia and a Yugoslav pro-same distance southeast of rij- failed completely.

From some and soldiers. ijionaiy force in The Nether i visional trade delegation in nugen. It is on a main, cross-houses where Germans are liv- The British said the airfield 'j111' pst Indies, while United Russia. country railway line. 'iJ? who up to now enjoyed, the was not damaged despite a Ger- Secretary of State Hull it sald Russia Intends lo miiT iini im nrr of our country, tliere man diving attack to the a to preserve import from Yugoslavia copper, has been firing on the Dutch mill- 1 root ops, so close that ground rmo of The Nether-jirad and zinc ore concentrates I 1,10 'lvlces identified and police, troops plugged awav at the raid-! Kast lard and other commodities, folt n'1'11.

folding out as An effective end has been put ers with pistols. 1 to export agricultural and other cnnenicn, at eip, east of Arn- t0 thin. Yet another British squadron Cft machinery, kerosene, cotton and ni wioeer ficnen miniary, hough In some places para-other goods reported Arnhem, in ca-t chutists have landed again, their 'central Netherlands, about 12 number is vei-v small. Thev Two factories near the capital I henston as the crowd roared its Last. The authoritative Virginio and reported destruction or Arrives in Brazil RECIFE tBrazih Mav 11 were reported on fire as a result 'disapproval bclgian Registry miles from the border, had been shared the fate of the parachute captured by the Germans,) troops landed yesterday and have vunn ni'ar ine Bruno Mussolini, son" of Order CthloA Although Netherlands' troops, been killed for the most part." (0 aided by British planes and the 1 alian premier, arrived today at: NEW YORK.

Mav 11. J'ltlAK ,111,11 1)0 Sal 011 Innr nt r'U. 1 Diitrti 1-it-ri- flnnf wrvn rnnnvl nrl of the morning air rains, mo, cicr.ii Nffcjne War's Frightfulness Brought Home to Belgian Civilians Gayda of II Glornale d'ltalia av pcared less sure of the superior ity of Germany' forces than other Fascist commentators. He said lie' would not "hasten to say when this new phase in tho war would be decisive." "The British and French forces still are imposing and mainly intact," he said. VUMI HH I til I Kill WWII v.

im Describing the battle, the lead- sped ion of the Home-Rio do oral for Belgium at New York earlier In the day to have wiped1 Another German bomb raid on er of six British tighter planes Janeiro route of the Italian today received cabled Instruc-W resistance or parachute Amsterdam's airport, Schiphol, said his men dived from MM) Transoceanic Air He will tinns from Belgium Foreign 'troops at Rotterdam and Dord- was driven off, with four German feet, pulling out at 150 feet after 'cave for Rio de tnmor-' Minister Paul H. Spaak to Island, tonight's communl- planes shot down by British and firing 1S.0O0 rounds of machine-i-'ow. Voting Mussolini Is a di-l range for registration of all indicated the airport at l-itch lighters, gun bullets Into the German i red or of the Transoceanic com-: clans In the United Slates who W'aalhaven. (south of Rotterdam At a cost of more than 1000 nv M. AV.

FODOU ChlMo tllf Km rorHti 8frvlr Pietromarchi told the Senate machines. pany. have their "letters of service." BRUSSELS. May 11. Little Three house were destroyed! (jiat eontrahnnd control damngo lives, I he Dutch army and navy were declared to have wiped out the Germans- landed by seaplane and naniehute in the southern sun is in uerman nanus.

I.LI I 111 BUY All) If. said: "French and English troops 0f the great seaport city of Guy de Lfedekcrke went to the by the terrible explosion of this to Italian commerce amounted balcony of the house in which onc bomh itnjict.hcr, nevon to 1 lire ($20,000,000.) he lived. He wanted to see the roditm'llc charged the prize courts with big bombers from Germany as 'l wlhltt a radius, appIylnR Rolnfj thev rained liombs down on tbe Of 300 yards, in one phase. or a (() pnp tiayS." Belgian capital, early yesterday, general air raid which devastat-j of PlltCY A 200-nound bomb crashed ed civilian quarters, for h.iil.linff r.nv 1.1 lwa nrt mllltarv nhleetlve nnvJ UUn Llltisll insistence that nave come nurrying to our aid Rotterdam and on Dordrecht and. together with The Nether- t(, the utlicast.

jlands troops, will defend our( lf lh(, G(mnn, 1)CPn a))lp to hold these Western Holland iff'1 they would have been in coition trt strike across "Before we i cached the troop carriers," thist leader said, "we dime upon three (German) fighters, and below them on a beach north of The Hague we saw nine Junkers; M's. After our bombers set two1 big Junkers the! fighters formed in line astern. I One after another the British! planes then dived vertically flattening out over (he "Of the seven remaining we destroyed four more, and the-1 other three were riddled -with! our I ONE FOIU'EH LANDING "One of our fighters made forced landing on the sand. Vc was killed, and his brother, where in the vicinity. and the rest of the family were1 In front of one of the bouses Injured.

crushed by German explosives shippers, to get their vessel released, must renounce claim for damages and agree to pay Britain for control expenses, vi iiiiiui'in n'i on II iiivj it," reived orders have been execut ithe narrow neck of the North 'Sea at England, ed. After that the greater tiart of Guv's body was discovered, stands a crater JU leet in diam Latest War Bulletins Continued front First' Page reported killed today when four ttombs fell In the heart of the city. BRUSSELS, May 11. Belgian capital was bombed from the air again tonight. Heavy detonations resounded in the center of the city and tin air raid alarm was in effect from 6:0 p.m.

to 7 p.m. Civilian casualties In Saturday's bombings were said authoritatively to be higher than those on Friday, first day of the. German invasion. The city of Liege also was heavily bombed. LONDON, May 12 (Sunday.) (U.R) Radio Brussels in a broadcast tonight warned, the population that German parachutists garbed in civilian clothes and equipped with portable radio transmitters were believed dropped in Belgium last night.

The broadcast arned the parachutists would try to direct German bombers to Belgian troop concentrations. after the tragedy, sprawled in etcr. It is just one of numerous lot unloading corridor of what pockmarks wrought by aerialla warehousing costs, he said acts "in-effect are acts of the battered tattered onen una a tile.isant. Villa In a. terror vma in them were withdrawn.

i BOMB KILLS 20 "After furious attacks which An estimated 0 persons were (lasted four hours, a town which killed and many injured when had been in the hands of thea lone German' bomlwr, flying jenemy has been recaptured byjovrr the crowded streets of mid- residential district of Brussels 'cnptrnht. 1948. chirt pmy Ncw, tnr DAILY POUNDCO DC0, 1M Los aitfjclf0 Cimcs tVtRV MORNINO IN TMI YEAR grim witness of German frightfulness from the air. In thn nlulit flnv'a troll Wa Phnnt MArilltn fha Tlm HiiltHim. Pint imint AT NIWI ITANOI UlnilU mn.

Mtntt munnm, lu linn us. hereafter all soldiers on a (Amsterdam at 11 a.m. (o.io a.m. German armored train wcrejES.T.,) dropped bombs which killed. In the train were found 'siruck.

only a few blocks from pamphlets in The Netherlandslthe great, gray royal palace on language and Netherlands armyjthe dam, Central Amsterdam uniforms. iSquare. ff in not leave him until we wrrg atisfled that the pilot and other members of the criw were taken to the rlnucn next to ir.Ml rMr, u.o, unoa onivh mntn. finri school about 100 VHrds from' his mnnlln. Il 0 til 3 00l OIHr iH, H.S9 ir mnnlh, home, ana to be hurica.

mnw i fnih im, today. VOL, LIX, N. 161 IUNDAV MORNINO, MAV 11, 1S4 1.