Tours, June 14, 'A pitched aerial battle took place this evening above Tours shortly after the French Government was reported to have left the town for ow quarters in a city farther southwest.
It was shortly before 7 pin. that the alr raid sirens shrilled their warning and antiaircraft guns wont into violent action. French pursuits took of immediately to engage a large force of German bombers—Hava fo Need For Panic"
Somewhere in France, June 15.
"the Army is Sighting magni cently, and holding out against overwhelming odds," said a high Air Force officer, who has just flown over th ines, "to Reuter's Special Corres pondent in France, 'The officer added that there was no need for unwarranted panic. 'The conditions were tough, and the Allies were fighting over unprepared ground, but the enemy was also entering country' which was comparatively unstudied, he coneluded,—Reut Predictions f the abandonment of the Maginot Line and the simultane-fous launching of the counter offend sive followed reliable reports today that the Allies would attempt to establish a new line of defence from Cherbourg through Chartres to Orleans, Many military experts believed the Maginot "Line would have to be abandoned, because of the threat of German encirclement of that great line of defence.
Commentators believed the Allied High Command would now establish a line holding Brittany, with ort of Cherbourg serving as arson:
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