The Archive · 1940

A Triple Form of Attack

"This has been a war of movement" one Scottish soldier seid, "You don't have time to dig in. You meet the Jerry and the first thing thrown at you is high explosives from artillery which keeps you close to the ground. Then they open up with scores of four-inch trench mortars, which are very efficient. Then comes an attack by low-flying German planes attacked Marseilles and Lyons yesterday, but French aircraft quickly dispersed the raiders, according to reports reaching here last night, It was considered significant here that the planes attacking Marseilles from the sea would have to come either from the general direction of Italy or the Balearic Islands before approaching the coast, Three waves of German planes flew over the towns of southern France, according to the reports, Thirty persons were killed at Lyons and a number of buildings were set afire. Little damage was done at "Marseilles, it was said.—United Press, arity.

Suspension of Franco-Italian conversations, they added, is one more convincing proof of the falseness of wishful German attempts to separate Britain and France.—Havas.

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