Most French military experts last night declared that "these German advance elements are destined to be destroyed just as were the audacious Uhlan cavalry patrols who pushed their far ahead of the German Army in 1914 almost to Paris, The modern German motorcyclist troops are merely the successors to these Uhlans," they declared, French official sources declared that German losses directly behind the army zones had been extremely heavy. The estimated German losses thus far in the blitzkrieg operation at 500,000 dead and wounded; 1,200 planes shot down on the Dutch, Belgian and French fronts in ten days; and 1,300 tanks and armoured cars destroyed, Yesterday's battle was heaviest on the front running from Arras through Cambrai to Valenciennes, where French and British artillery obtained superiority in the terrific exchange of shelling which was not interrupted during 24 hours. Every road was being swept with shrapnel and every patch of forest and village which could give the Germans shelter was being whipped by Allied artillery as a necessary prelude to the next phase of General Weygand's operation.—United Press, Ex-Kaiser Said Returned To Germany Madrid, May 24. circles here declare that r has arrived at Potsdam, about 30 kilometres south-west of Berlin where he is said to be receiving every attention.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.