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lenn- Second-ClaM Mail Matter PPTPP XT IXlKjtll THREE CENTS I FIVE CENTS OS TRAINS In Chattanooga I And OuUido Cbattanoora CHATTANOOGA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940. GREECE OPENS STRA TEGIC RAIL LINE OFFERING ALLIES GATE TO BALKANS; EGYPT MASSES MEN TO RESIST ITALY SENATE BODIES TO GET REPORT OF ARMY, NAVY Edison Due to Head Groups Telling What Defense Has Learned From War Abroad i BLACKOUT IS ORDERED Backed by 60,000 British, Kingdom Fears Duce Is Poised in Dodecaneses British Deny Big Ships Lost; Norse Urged to Trust Allies Nazi Claims of Sinking Battleship Are Called Untrue Koht, Norwegian Leader, in London, Says Nation Not Abandoned By the Associated Press. i By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 5. Army and navy officials, headed by Secretary of the Navy Edison, probably will be asked to explain to two senate committees this week what measures have been taken to overhaul the United States military machine to keep abreast of war developments in Europe.

Edison, who said last week that air craft appeared to have achieved a temporary superiority over battleships. may face some critical questioning when he appears before the senate naval affairs committee Tuesday. He will testify in behalf of house-approved legislation to expand the navy by 1 1 per cent. Some committee members said that Edison's conclusions seemed to be at variance with previous testimony by Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, and ther high-ranking navy officials.

Senator Johnson Cal.) is expected to take an active part in questioning Edison on his findings. Nail Victory May Change Picture Stark told the committee the Scandinavian campaign had strengthened the navy's conviction that the battleship still ruled the sea. That, however, was before Germany had achieved her spectacular successes in Norway. The nazis claim to have sunk or badly damaged nine British warships or transports by air bombing off Narnsos and Narvik during a day of fighting. Vessels sunk, they said, included a battleship.

Edison said last week that designs of future battleships would be altered to provide better safeguards from bombs and shells for men and anti-aircraft guns above decks. The navy, he also asserted, would study the possibility of providing better protection of superstructures of present vessels if it could be done with out "patchwork.1 In view of Edison's remarks. Re publican Leader McNary, of Oregon, predicted that most senate republicans would urge that naval "expansion legislation be delayed until the navy's experts could agree on the changes that would be needed. The house-approved measure, au thorizing future expenditures of 000,000 to build up the fleet. Is ex pected to win quick committee approval.

McNary said that the majority of republicans appeared to favor "rea sonable" increases in next year's out lay for the army. The senate appropriations subcom mittee considering the $785,000,000 military supply bill, arranged to hear testimony by George V. Strong, in charge of the war plans division. The senate will resume considera tion tomorrow of a measure by Sena tor Townsend Del.) to terminate the treasury's authority to pur chase foreign silver. CHANNEL SHIP HALTED BY MINELAYER PLANES BRUSSELS, May 5 (P).

German minelaying airplanes over the English channel were reported today by a Belgian mail and passenger ship which said it was forced to return to Ostend. its base, without completing its regular trip to Folkestone. Another ship in the same service. with twenty-two passengers aboard. anchored between Calais and Grave- lines.

Passengers said one of the boats had difficulties on the trip from Folkestone beginning April 30, but that two wooden fishing boats dragged a net carrying an "anti-magnetic engine" to clear a path to Dunkerque, France. Warm Day Brings Out 11,637 to Chickamauga Another clear week-end and a warm sun attracted 11,637 people to Chickamauga dam for sight-seeing and to watch the sailboats, cruisers and smaller powercraft which kept the water filled. The crowd came close to the 12,000 total expected by the TV A safety service corps. Twenty-nine boats went through the lock in the day, according to lock officials, compared with the record of forty-three boats last Sun-day, when an attendance high of 18,382 was set. Although the breeze was light all afternoon, several knockabouts staged a series of races, in which the Comets came in first.

Among the winning comet teams were William McGinness and 2. Cartter Patten, Lane Valenden and Richard Thatcher, and T. H. McCallie. sailing in the last of four races -with Mr.

Patten. The smaller Snipe, sailed by Owen Duffy and Bill Crawford, took first in the third race. C. B. Randall, police sergeant of the TV A at the dam, said that the crowds were orderly.

Several speedboats were kept busy taking people for rides up the lake and the more landlocked public stood on the banks for hours commenting on the various craft which sped or chugged by. GROUP STARTS TOUR OF STATE Cooper Greets 70 Guests at Nashville Visitors to Be Here on Wednesday BY RUFUS TERRA Timet Staff Correspondent. NASHVILLE, May 6. Wel coming seventy guests to the "See Tennessee tour" tonight. Gov.

Pren tice Cooper told the state's visitors Tennessee is interested in attracting new Industries, but only "those that are willing to bear their share of taxes and pay good wages." "We are not interested in industries that want to take advantage of cheap southern labor and to have tax exemption," the governor said, expressing pride that there has been no major labor disturbance in the state during his administration. Kingsport Is Cited. Pointing to Kings port as a model town. Gov. Cooper said Kingsport has never had a strike, has had only three mortgage foreclosures, and enjoys wages that are among the highest In the country.

He agreed with "a Kings-port industrialist, who has been called 'the fattier of -who once said to me 1 may go to hell for a variety of reasons, but one of them will not be exempting industries from taxation. "Tennessee is interested," Gov. Cooper said, "only in honest industry, in industry that will pay its taxes and pay good wages." Magazine and newspaper writers, travel bureau managers, automobile club officials and others who influence the travel preferences of the nation's tourists gathered here today from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Ohio, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, the District of Columbia, Florida, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Texas, Iowa, Kentucky, Missis sippi, Indiana, Massachusetts, Okla homa and Louisiana. They saw Nashville today, visiting the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson; the Belle Meade estate and its eighty-seven-year-old mansion; the Parthenon, Ward Belmont school and the R. H.

Bransford flower garden. Tomorrow morning the tour will proceed to Memphis. Tuesday will be spent at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Pickwick dam and Wednesday evening the visitors will reach Chattanooga, to spend all of Thursday there before proceeding to Knoxville and the Smokies. Interested in TV A TV A is claiming much of the interest of visitors on the tour. Its power development appears the most interesting aspect of the tour, in advance, to Leonard Barber, of the Springfield (O.) News and Sun.

Garth Cate, of the New York World-Telegram, who has seen all the large reclamation, ir rigation and power projects in the west, said he was interested in TVA's program "because I know what comes after." Fred Burns, manager of the travel bureau of the Cincinnati Times- Star, said he is already recommend ing Norris lake as one of the best fishing places and will be able to make more suggestions about vacations in Tennessee after he has completed the trip. He said he considered this state "ideal" for the vaca tioner with two weeks of leisure and a not unlimited budget. Leonard C. Roy, associate editor of the National Geographic Magazine, who took the "See Tennessee Tour" a year and a half ago and wrote an article on the state for his magazine, said the tour will be worth minions of dollars to Tennessee. "That article in the Geographic cost us $45,000 every color plate cost $1 100 and if it isn't worth $1,000,000 to Tennessee I'll eat it," Mr.

Roy as serted. "That's what came from the presence of two men on the trip a year and a half ago." Memphis Youth Drowned MEMPHIS, May 5 seized with cramps as he swam in Wolf river backwater with several companions, Edward Thomas Adams, INERS DECIDE 10 END STRIKE ATCOPPERHILL Hoiion Is Taken After Poll "at Wing Strike on for Nine Months ROBINSON SCORES FBI He Charges Gestapo Methods Vi'e Used by U. S. Agents in Probe of "Blasts Robinson, of Denver, stsident of the International Union Mill and Smelter Workers, affiliate of the C. announced jffg last night that the nine-month of union employes of the Ten-jBsee Copper company plants and gines Copperhill, Isabella and Cucktown was called off yesterday att-6 a meeting of the strikers at Isabella.

At the same time, Mr. Robinson tharged agents of the federal bureau investigation with using "gestapo methods" in their investigation of alleged dynamiting of TV A lines and torers by strikers and asserted t'ae premment had "violated the rights of cifens under the law." Twenty men. including M. C. Anderson, of Bessemer, international representative of the- Bnicii, bare been charged by the FBI rift conspiracy in the series of blasts jucj the strike, when it was asserted Sat the striking men attempted to top transmission of electric power to the copper basin.

Beached After Poll Mr Robinson said the decision to end the strike was reached after a pen of the union men. Although no announcement was made of the basis ipeo which the strike was ended, it ns learned at Ducktown that the company had agreed to place the 450 triers on a preferential hiring list, putting about thirty to work imme-diately and drawing others from the as needed. Approximately 1,200 men went on Itrike in July, 1939. Between 350 and iO returned to their jobs almost two EEths later and employment of ad-Stional numbers brought the total of itriers down to 450. Mr.

Robinson and P. C. Brainerd, also of Denver, an international representative of the union, met Saturday it Knoxville with Robert H. McCon-neH, Knoxville attorney, who Is representing the company, and J. H.

leaser, company general manager. The strike was called when union efiicials charged the company with refusing to bargain collectively with Its employes. Developments Included an election won by the A. P. of the CIO.

charge that the company Influenced the election and subsequent tonlng by the C. I. O. of a second election, and a national labor relation board decision upholding the company in the controversy. The decision was handed down several weeks go.

Mr. Brainard accused the federal gents of "herding strikers into a private concentration camp" at Copper-kin, "where they were held for six days md questioned and threatened." Be asserted the five men who signed eonfessiona of guilt in the dynamiting to! to under duress and promise that their bonds would be made smaller. 1 a i a 1 representative charged the FBI with violating the constitution "which they took oaths to Uphold." Denials Criticized Mr. Brainard criticized the federal sents for refusing to allow wives. Parents and relatives of the men held ta the Hamilton county jail to visit ana asserted efforts were made the FBI to deny the accused pris-neis benefit of counsel.

E. B. RaItot on1 -ft ft? Townsend, who have been retained to ena the men in jail, said yesterday kd been Dlannprf fnr relative, nf I Prisoners to come to Chattanooga cnartered school bus during the Mtemoon and visit the defendants, but aission was denied hv the irnvern. ggents. The bus failed to arrive W.

Although the attorneys and Bicketts, deputy marshal, were jau awaiting developments. Page Two, Column Four Today's Times i Abasements ri news 4 Oasrified 10 Radio 5 IfftPllta ff r. 9 Society, 4 "orlal Pare. 6 Sports News. 8, 12 pe 11 Tri-State News 7 Xew 3 Weather 11 ttanooga Bar association to elect "aicers today 3 ganger hospital to be dedicated Sun- 3 vw of the beautiful Dayton marine wrk 3 wiurch 1 nd university choirs give pro Irani ttanooga still leading in traffic ecord i flower show, demonstration of 1 residence close better homes ta McMinn 7 70Ut8 split with Little Rock 8 ell-Leahy team roll into A.

B. C. ooney Bob filer beats Red Sox on six- lata Tennis tourney starts here to- 12 SALONIKA, SOFIA LINKED Completion of New Route Coincides With Reports Britain Moving East FEAR OF ITALY STRONG Athens Reassured on Amity With Other Neighbors, but Counts on Democracies By the Associated Presi. ATHENS, May 5. A strategic new railway line, which would give British and French troops an additional route northward if they were landed at Salonika in the event of extension of the war to southeastern Europe, was opened today by King George II and members of the Greek cabinet.

The new rail line, some thirty miles long, links Salonika with the upper Struma valley line running to Sofia, Bulgaria. Opening of the line coincided with circulation throughout the Balkans of reports, apparently German in origin. that debarkation of British and French troops at Salonika actually was imminent. There was no indication either in Athens or Salonika to indicate that the Greek government expected such a landing. Fishermen returning to the port said they had seen no signs of preparation for such an operation.

More War Boats in Aegean However, they did report sighting additional British war vessels on patrol duty in the Aegean sea, where a number of British ships have been stationed since the start of the war. With all of the Balkan state: anxiously watching developments in the eastern Mediterranean, Greece, like her neighbors, is hoping to preserve her neutrality, but at the same time preparing to fight If an enemy should be thrust upon her. Premier John Metaxas has warned his countrymen that the Greek position is dangerous and that they must be ready to battle for their Inde pendence. Uneasines in Greece has Increased each time another neutral country fell prey to outside force. It has been allayed with each indication that Italy was not entering the war immediately.

For here fascist Italy rather than nazi Germany is the chief bogey, and Greeks watch closely for signs of Premier Mussolini's intentions. If Mussolini jumps into the war on the side of Germany, it is believed his first thrust will be in the Balkans. Whether he strikes directly at Greece or only at Yugoslavia to the north such a move is regarded as certain to make Greece a battleground. Would Open Doors to Allies If war comes to the Balkans, Salonika and its harbor on the Aegean sea offers the most direct gateway for entrance of British and French troops. Greeks deny reports of a secret agreement to let Britain and France, both of whom have guaranteed her independence and integrity, use the port.

But there is little doubt that Greece would let them enter if the conflict spreads to the Balkans. From Italian bases in Albania, across the northern Greek frontier, Salonika is but 100 miles, a half hour's flight for bombing planes. Athens, the capital, is only forty-five minutes by air from the reinforced Italian bases in the Dodecanese islands on the Turk-" ish side of the Aegean. Planes from the Italian mainland could reach either city in a little over an hour. Greece has 700 miles of land frontiers to defend and 8,000 miles of sea frontiers, if one includes all of the Greek islands.

To guard these she has an army, now virtually on a war-time scale. See Page Two, Column Three Belligerents GERMANY Berlin renewed claims that a British battleship and heavy cruiser had been sunk at Namsos Friday among other ships destroyed or damaged by nazi fire. The Germans also reported that a heavy bomb struck a British' batteship in Narvik harbor Saturday. Strong enemy forces supported by fliers were repelled in new attacks on German units north of Narvik, Berlin said. The nazis claimed that mopping up operations in the rest of Norway were proceeding quickly.

Meanwhile the Germans speculated on the possibility that remnants of allied forces left in Norway were pushing northward to join in the siege of Narvik. NAZIS REPORT NEW RAID Claim British Warship Is Struck by Heavy Bomb in Harbor of Narvik EXPECT ATTACK IN NORTH Berlin Speculates on Chance Remnants of Allied Forces May Push to Ore City By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 6 (Monday). The German air force yesterday attacked a British naval unit off Narvik, Norway's Arctic port, and scored a direct hit on an English battleship, reliable German sources asserted. Heavy smoke rising from the war ship showed the effect of the bomb, it was reported.

British troops at Narvik also were subjected to the force of the German airmen, Germans said, and bombs dropped on an enemy encampment in that region exploded a munitions dump. The German high command's communique of Sunday repeated its assertion that a British battleship and a heavy cruiser were sunk by German fliers Friday off Namsos. Authorized German sources last night stuck to that claim of success for their air force, despite flat denials by the British. Other Successes Clamied Other sinkings announced by the command included: A large British transport off Namsos Friday, two enemy merchantmen Saturday and a Polish destroyer off Narvik Saturday. Detachments of British and French troops, apparently left behind in the allied withdrawal from Namsos, are hurrying northward in what may be an attempt to launch an attack on Narvik from the south, DNB, official German news agency, reported.

The movement of the allied troops, it said, was discovered in scouting operations while the main force of the German army of occupation pushed its hold on Norway as far as the railheads Of Namsos and Grong, north of Trondheim, and continued "mop- ping-up" action in central and southern Norway. DNB asserted that the British and French detachments had cut off from the main expeditionary force by German aerial attacks on the embarkation operations at Namsos last Wednesday and Thursday. Drive on Narvik Speculated German military quarters speculated whether the British and French would attempt to reach Narvik, the ore port north of the Arctic circle, where a German garrison is holding out against allied attacks supported by planes, warships and artillery. To do so, these isolated allied troops would have to make their way through more than 300 miles of the most mountainous, difficult terrain in Norway. A single highway runs north as far as Bodo, on the coast.

But there is no road for the 100 miles from there to Narvik, and the intervening country is dotted with mountains and rendered even more difficult to negotiate by numerous deep-running fjords, streams and lakes. At Narvik Itself, the high command announced, repeated attacks by "strong enemy forces supported by fliers" on German "security units" north of the town "were repulsed by co-operative action of our own land forces and airmen." German troops moving north from Steinkjer, above Trondheim, marched into Namsos and Grong, where the Norwegian commander of the area surrendered unconditionally, its communique said. "Mopping-up" of scattered Norwe- See Page Two, Column Five regard of a mutual agreement not to mass soldiers there. The said Bulgaria had given Turkey no cause for such an action. Meanwhile, a struggle for Bulgarian support was reported in progress in Sofia between the German economic expert, Dr.

Karl Clodius, and the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. The nature of Clodius' representations was not known, but Knatchbull-Hugessen was reported reliably to have brought a proposal embracing a big British loan and a promise of a corridor to the Aegean sea long wanted by Bulgaria. The British plan was reported to involve a combination among Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Greece, already on close terms with Turkey, apparently would receive concessions in return for ceding an Aegean corridor to Bulgaria. Political sources in Sofia said the main object of wooing Bulgaria was to open a land route for troops to Rumania should such a necessity arise.

NATION TIED TO ENGLAND Treaty of 1936 Binds State to Furnish Assistance on Own Soil in Time of War By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 5. Backed by thousands of allied troops and the largest allied fleet yet assembled in the European war, Egypt to night declared her readiness to fight against attack from any quarter and ordered the first country-wide blackout in the history of the land of the Pharoahs. Egypt's highest defense council began daily sessions as reports were received that Italian warships and thousands of troops were Deing concentrated in the Dodecanese islands, about 400 miles northwest of this port across the Mediterannean. (Italian authorities in Rome have declined comment on reports that troops, ships and warplanes have been massed in the Dodecanese group.) Allied troops about 60,000 British soldiers are said by neutrals to be in Egypt alone stood ready to board transports and their commanders scanned reports that Italy hac landed 55,000 soldiers in the Dodecanese islands.

Fleet at Alexandria Strengthened The allies are eported rushing naval reinforcements to bolster the huge fleet in Alexandria harbor. Count Serafino Massozlini, Italian minister to Egypt, meanwhile told Egypt's Italian colony of 60,000 not to believe that Italy intended to attack any of her neighbors. He said they could send their children to Italy as usual this year for youth organization exercises without any fears for their safety. The count urged the colony, composed mainly of workers, to keep calm and to stay on their jobs. The Egyptian national defense ministry issued instructions for a one-week blackout beginning Tuesday.

All public buildings already are under guard. Egypt's minister of national defense, Mohamed Saleh Harb Pasha, in a statement declared Egypt never would be taken by surprise. On land, trie allied situation was reported to shape up like this: First; Allied officers in Istanbul, Turkey, said in April that the maximum force which could be sent out of Syria, Palestine and Egypt at that time was 200,000 men. However, foreign observers in February had reported that carefully checked figures indicated the British and French troops in the Near East totaled at least 570,000 men. Second Turkey, which has a mutual aid pact with the allies to fight with them in the event the war comes to the Balkans or the Near East, was estimated early in March to have men under arms.

Third Egypt has an army of men. Also, she is obligated under the treaty of 1936 with Britain to furnish Britain facilities and assistance on Egyptian soil in wartime. WARM SUN BRINGS F.D. R. OUT FOR A MOTOR RIDE HYDE PARK, N.

May 5 (JP). A warm sun brought President Roosevelt outdoors today for a long motor ride. Callers were barred at the temporary White House and Mr. Roosevelt even skipped his usual conference with his secretary. He drove with his mother to Newburgh to visit his aunt, Mrs.

Dora Forbes. Ansaldo Again Predicts Britain to Be Invaded ROME, May 5 (JP). Giovanni Ansaldo, editor of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's newspaper II Telegrafo, repeated his forecast today that Germany would invade England, in his weekly radio broadcast to the Italian armed forces. Ansaldo had made a similar prediction in II Telegrafo yesterday. "Everything causes one to presume that this war very soon will see a great effort on the part of Germany to invade England in force," Ansaldo said.

"Never were conditions in which the present war is being conducted more favorable to the attackers, never were technical resources available to the enemy on the continent so favorable. "The blow planried by Napoleon certainly will be attempted again." The fascist press continued to chorus a warning to Britain and France against attempting to exert pressure on Italy through their naval reinforcements in the LONDON, May 5. Great Britain tonight officially denied Germany's claim that nazi warplanes had sunk a British battleship and a heavy cruiser in concentrated air attacks off the Norwegian coast. The admiralty broke its silence of more than a day since Germany jubilantly announced that her aircraft had sunk or badly damaged nine British warships and transports off the Norwegian ports of Namsos and Narvik last Friday. "The German claim to have sunk a British battleship and a cruiser of the York class in the operations off Namsos is untrue," said the admiralty communique.

It made no reference to the other triumphs officially reported by the nazis, but well-informed British sources last night had described the German claims as "of the fantastic character to which the public is fast becoming accustomed." A message to the Norwegian people not to lose "patience" and counseling them to put their trust in the allies was broadcast from London by Dr. Halvdan Koht, Norwegian foreign minister, who last month defied Germany's demand that Norway submit to the nazi occupation and then fled with his king and government before the gray-clad nazi warriors. Dr. Koht arrived in London today with the Norwegian defense minister, Col. Birger Ljungberg.

They came to a Scottish port on a British warship for conferences with allied leaders. The foreign minister said in the SWEDEN HOPES WARTOSHIFT Resigned to Norse Defeat, Nation Believes Danger Is Moving Southward STOCKHOLM, May 5 (JP). Sweden, aware that war on a new front would diminish the dangers of further incursions in Scandinavia, tonight gave the keenest attention to reports of Italian and allied fleet movements in the Mediterranean sea and. in effect, seemed to regard the conflict in Norway as ended with a German victory. Men close to the government, foreign observers, Stockholm' citizens and the press voiced belief that a Mediterranean conflict would greatly enhance the chances of Sweden and Finland for continued peace.

Swedes also said the two nations ought to work together in pursuit of new trade avenues which would lead naturally to Germany and soviet Russia. There was no substantiation from Norway or in Stockholm of reports broadcast from London that the British who abandoned central Norway had surrounded German forces in the Arctic ore port of Narvik. Only Guerrilla Fighting Reported. News dispatches here told only of guerrilla fighting by small Norwegian units against the Germans around Roros, southeast of the west-coast Norwegian port of Trondheim, held by the nazis. (The British war office reported operations are continuing in the Narvik area, while in Paris official French advices said operations in northern Norway are proceeding "most satisfactorily." (A French war ministry spokesman said that both allied fleet and land guns were shelling some 3,000 reich troops holding the Narvik port.

The spokesman declared that German planes attempted to relieve the garrison Saturday by bombing nearby villages. He added that the German position in Narvik is precarious and an early surrender was foreseen.) A Norwegian news agency report broadcast in Stockholm said Norweg ian detachments defeated and drove back a German force after fighting in the Osterdal (eastern valley) Saturday, about twenty-five miles southeast of Storen, which is thirty-five miles south of Trondheim. Two hundred Germans were reported killed. (The Stockholm radio also quoted the Norwegian agency as reporting the capture of Roros, in the Osterdal fifty miles south of Storen, by the Germans. Last week the Germans were said to have penetrated beyond Roros, but had been forced to fall back.

(German airplanes appeared over Roros during the morning and dropped six or seven bombs on the main street, but no casualties were reported as most of the civilian population had fled. The troops broadcast after the conferences that the allies had promised Norway "full aid" and that it was a point of honor for them to fulfill that promise. "We must trust in them and on our side we must not lose patience," he said. "We, on our side, must not give up the struggle." In such an event, he added, there could be no hope that Germany would restore Norway's independence after the- war. He mentioned Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland in this connection.

Telling some of his own experiences. Dr. Koht said: "I have seen German bombs rain over defenseless Norwegian homes, seen trembling women and crying children run into the forests or hud dle in cold, dark cellars in order to get away from the German weapon of murder." The Germans are doing to Norway, he asserted, the things they have not dared to do to England and France "That part of Norway which was not subdued in the first bout," he said, "is being attacked in a merciless, savage way. The Germans have found an opponent that they think can be scared into submission." Instead, the Norwegians' will to fight has been awakened. Dr.

Koht said, "and in the end they will sweep the enemy out of the country." Dr. Koht told the Norwegians that he will go to Paris and thence back See Page Two, Column Two PARIS REPORTS MAJORASSAULT Foes Hurled Back With Big Loss After Short Advance Beyond French Outposts PARIS, May 5 (JP). The French high command reported tonight that German troops attacking in increasing force on the western front were driven off by a spirited counter-attack after the nazis had succeeded momentarily in penetrating the line of French advance posts. The German stab early this morning at French positions in the wooded valleys, where the Saar river bends into France was the second nazi attack in force within twenty-four hours at the central sector of the 100-mile front between the Moselle and the Rhine. The field-gray clad Germans attacked behind what the French communique described as "heavy artillery fire." The fact that they were able to break through the gaps between the French advance posts and surround three of them indicated the attack was considerably more concentrated than that of the morning before, when two companies of Germans were forced back by the crossed fire of French machine guns and automatic rifles.

French Momentarily Cut Off. Small sections of French troops, pinned within the advance posts by the encircling Germans, kept up a steady stream of fire until the French counter-attack could be organized from the resistance line to the rear. This attack, led by light scouting units trained to come to close grip with the enemy, drove off the nazis, the official communique reported. Tonight's communique said: "During last night, in the region of the Saar, the enemy, supported by See Page Two, Column Six Claims of the ALLIES Great Britain characterized as untrue a German announcement of Friday that a British battleship and a heavy cruiser had been sunk by German bombing planes at Namsos Friday. Reaching London aboard a British warship, Halvdan Koht, fugitive Norwegian foreign minister, broadcast an appeal to the Norwegian people to have faith that the allies have not abandoned them and to continue resistance to the German army.

The French high command reported that for the second time in two days the Germans had been repulsed in an increasingly heavy stab at the Maginot line. In the Saar area, the army said, three French outposts were surrounded, but held off the enemy until a French counterattack smashed back the invaders with heavy losses. Sofia Says 50,000 Turks Massed To Back Britain in Mediterranean By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 5. Bulgari an officials said today that at least 50,000 Turkish soldiers are massed on the Turkish-Greek frontier in Europe.

The officials said they were of the opinion the concentrations were "in accordance with British desires, and are connected with England's plans in the Mediterranean." (The German official news agency, DNB, and the German radio were quoted in British dispatches as saying that the presence in Sofia of the British ambassador to Turkey was being watched with the closest interest. (The German agencies said it was believed in political circles that negotiations were going on concerning the transit of British and French troops. (Such transit might be desired either to Rumania or Yugoslavia.) Bulgarian officials expressed concern that some Turkish troops were close to the frontier In apparent dis See Page Two, Column One Jr, 15, drowned today..