QUITE SATISFIED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 7

QUITE SATISFIED

TANK DRIVE CHECKED. INFANTRY NAILED DOWN. Received .Tune 8, 10.15 a.m. PARIS, June 7. The French morning communique stated that, after a lull during the night, the battle was resumed this morning in the same general conditions as during the day yesterday. The French military spokesman stated that the night had not modified the general situation. The French, had used the hours of darkness to bring up ammunition and other supplies to the support points, which were well-prepared when the battle was resumed with the same violence. ■V ", * .-"'j Military circles are satisfied with the course of operations in the past two days, particularly the results against the tanks. It is estimated that four hundred have been ; de--1 stroyed of the two thousand which Hitler threw into the battle. Moreover, the tanks which succeeded in penetrating the defence system nowhere were followed by infantry, which had been nailed down by the fire from the support points. " ALLIES’ POSITION. The position of the Allied Armies can at present be summed up thus: On the south bank of the Somme, which the Germans have succeeded in crossing at the lower reaches, the Allies have established positions on the River Bresle, The positions in the centre, on the whole, remain unchanged, the French still holding out near Amiens and also holding their ground before Peronne, although the Germans have thrown into the battle in this sector alone nearly a thousand tanks. This enormous armoured mass has not succeeded in demolishing the support points 'and the tanks have only .succeeded in filtering through. Their progress has not exceeded six or seven miles. On what at present constitutes the extreme right of the battlefront, fighting has been resumed between the Aisne and Ailette on the plateau to the north of the Aisne. The Germans here are making a terrific push A reconstituted Belgian Army division is shortly going to the Front. ENEMY .VERSION. A German High Command communique says the operations of the army and air force south of the Somme and the Aisne-OisC Canal lire proceeding successfully. The Weygand Line has been pierced along the whole front.. German fighters again successfully attacked British aerodromes and returned without loss. The air force has destroyed the Norwegian broadcasting station near Haminerlest.