ATTACK WIDENED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 164, 11 June 1940, Page 8

ATTACK WIDENED

NAZIS ' LOSE . HEAVILY * UNABLE TO CROSS SEINE (T7cited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—^Copyright.) PARIS, June 9. A night communique. states that, as announced in the morning communique, the enemy has extended liis attack as far as the Argonne region' while continuing his previous .oflensives. Diminishing his pressure against the River Bfesle, lie lias pushed armoured units in the region of I orges-Les-Eaux and Argueil, towards the regions of Rouen and Gisors.

SETBACK, FOR GERMANS.

Some reconnaissance detachments reached the outskirts of ‘ Rouen and Pont de Larche, where ‘"they vainly tried to cross the .Seine. ”; ■■ Further east, between •Montdidier and Noyon, the enemy has been much less incisive than last .evening.,,lt apf pears, from numerous statements by prisoners that in this region the enemy suffered yesterday afternoon a serious setback, with considerable losses.* “This morning between the Oise at Novon and the AisnC at Soissons, another enemy army' has also been severely tried./It was not until the early afternoon that the enemy; resumed his offensive after throwing in new divisions supported by fresh armoured cars southward of the Aisne near Soissons. “At the end of the afternoon the enemy was also attacking in the region "of Puntavert. in the Champagne area we completely stemmed the attack which the enemy launched at dawn on the whole front from Chateau Poreicn to the Argonne. - The enemy was only able to cross the Aisne at two points, where we counter-attacked. Northward of Vouziers a group of parachutists were dropped behind {our lines. They have ricnv surrendered. “Despite their numerical inferiority, our troops continue to fight boldly and heroically. Continuing their co-operation in the battle, our fighters and bombers, have opposed thrusts of armoured formations. Despite the most violent reaction bv enemy fighters ahd anti-air-craft fire reconnaissances were carried out this morning and showed that several enemv columns were severely tried and left behind large quantities of maThe French Foreign Office-’ /daily military chronicle says the. G6rinam have lost a thousand tanks! in- four days. * _ . ... AMERICAN HELP. NOTABLE SUPPORT. WASHINGTON, Juno 9. The former isolationist, Senator Vandenbefg, said to-day that, since American foreign policy ,liad traded neutrality for non-belligerency, the United States should give all possible help to the Allies short of war or impairing her own defences, “Americans cannot longer' l>e isolationists, but may ' still--be ‘insulationists’,*’ ho said. ' u The United St&tes’s problems will be simplified if the Allies win. If seizures, of areas in the Western Hemisphere are attempted at this point we fight.” , LINER INTERCEPTED. italian~report. ' LONDON, June 9. The Rome radio has announced that British warships intercepted the Vulcanic homewafdbound with repatriated Italians and escorted her to Gibraltar.