French military observers, summing up the military situation at the close of yesterday, declared the German drive was definitely of less intensity than in past days.
Three German attacks were launehed yesterday morning toward Rethel, south-west of Sedan on the River Aisne, but only one of these had the Violence of the swift drives that the lo Germans had attempted hitherto. The advance on Rethel was held up by French units (ín fierce fighting north-west of that small town. The battle was still raging when night shrouded the lines.
Two attacks of lesser violence were made by the Germans against British lines on the Dyle River east of Brussels and against the Allied front in the Sedan region. The results of the fighting in those areas were not known by nightfall.
French military experts declared, on the basis of latest reports from the war fronts, that the Germans today had apparently eased up in their mass offensive following their great expenditure of men and material during the last few days. The Allied air forces, bombing the enemy night and day, played a large part in checking the German attempt to wage blitzkrieg."
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