The Archive · 1940

Germans Throw in Everything into Terrific Drive

Hitler, apparently is staking everything on his present drive towards Paris, which is being valiantly defended by y the Allied troops who are holding out against vast enemy is divisions. French troops have been ordered to drop back to the Marne. Fighting is now going on at Senlis, 26 miles north of Paris. The Germans have passed to the right and left of Soissons. Attempts to cross the Seine River, except between Rouen and Verious, were repulsed. The Germans are attacking everywhere between the Lower Seine and the Argonne.

Rheims is endangered by a pincer movement.

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