Somme-Aisne Barrier Unbroken as Germans Let Loose Frenzy of Devastation on All Fronts Paris, May 22. W22 in France developed hellish intensity and fury when the German Army attacked today with tools of arson, destruction and death and, by an enveloping and sweeping movement beyond Arras and Amiens, pointed two Panzer divisions in parallels towards the English Channel in an effort to trap the whole Allied Arniy in the north-east, While the battle reached a stage where the next 24 hours might be decisive Paris was jubilant over the official announcement that Arras had been recaptured and that General Maxime Weygand, Supreme Allied Commander, was con~ fident that if all put their shoulders to the wheel, victory would follow.
Arras was recaptured from a small detachment of motorized German troops, chiefly motor-cyclists who took the city late Monday.
They were quickly overcome when the French staged a counter-attack on the city, French official reports said. General Weygand is personally commanding operations from field headquarters.
Considerable French reinforcements from other sectors arrived and strengthened the Allied positions along the German flanks, it was officially announced, The German Panzer _divisfons were said fo. be in a dangerous position in a narrow corridor nearly 60 miles in front of the main body the German Army which was hetd behind Bscault.
For the past 24 hours, thousands of German bombers been Aropping incendiary bombs on every village, city and even. farms. Pieardy, Flanders and the lowlands, Aerial ' troop transports dropped parachutists with lighted. torches. in their hands {0 set fire to factories, rollway stations and munitions and fuel dumps in the Arras and Amiens regions and scores of cities between Cambrai and the sea, French and British armies man-quired to avoid being severed and the Allied air forces never stopped uring the day and night from harass sing the German tear. The Allied planes specially ow low to bomb parked fuel and food trains to cut Off German supplies and halt the murderous tanks which the ground forces have been unable to stop in frontal operations.
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