London, May 24, That the present war situation is grave no one in authority in London denies, It is, however, by no means desperate, Reuter was told in well-informed circles last night, The statement by Mr, Winston Churchill the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons that fighting is taking place in and around Boulogne, shows the suddenness and swiftness of the German thrust at Channel ports, but though this constitutes a grave menace to Allied lines of communication, it is stated that these lines are, at the moment, in no immediate danger, Strength or weakness of the whole position from the Allied point of view, is the swiftness with which a counter-offensive, on a scale sufficient for the purpose, can be got under way, and in this both the British and French Armies have implicit faith in Gen, Weygand, Commander-in-Chief of all the Allied Forces in all theatres of war.
In 1920, during the Russo-Polish war, he averted what seemed cer-lain defeat for the Polish Army, by turning away the Russians when they were actually at the gates of Warsaw, by his brilliant strategy.—Reuter, Speaking of the effect of Royal Air Force attacks on enemy communications, the Air Marshal asserted that prisoners captured in the past few.days were very exhausted. They had been without supply system. Fuller details of yesterday's British bombing operations show that trains were ad and rail communications were One of the trains hit by a Hampden bomber at Geldern, a German town near the Dutch frontier, was lew up with an explosion which
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