Thrusting their way recklessly across Normandy, the 300 German tanks appeared yesterday to be headed for the lower Seine Valley, where are the important river towns of Rouen and Lo Havre. The lower Seine is a perfect natural obstacle, with high, steep banks along the Buenos Aires, June 9.
The Chamber, by/123 votes to 8, approved a bill to prevent activities which might undermine the neutrality of Argentina. The measure is directed against fifth columnists.—Reuter.
London, June 9.
Royal Air Force bombers repeatedly attacked lines of communications, ammunition an@ petrol dumps, troop concentrations, And armoured fighting vehicles day and night on Friday, an Air Ministry communique states.
A railhead at Hirson was damaged and troop concentrations were machine-gunned. There were many explosions and fires at Abbeville, with extensive damage to the aerodrome there.
Heavy bombers attacked military objectives in northwest Germany. All returned safely. Seventeen German aircraft were destroyed by R.A.F. fighters 12 of which are missing. Yesterday medium bombers inflicted heavy damage on enemy motorized forces.
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concentrations and mechanized columns in tne immediate rear of the bate Mort between Treport and Amiens were subjected io repeated quacks at short intervals.
Towns and villages where troops were massing were wrecked and set ablaze. At Aimines, between the somme and the Bresle, which the enemy converted into a vast military encampment, over 800 high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped within three minutes. Direct hits were registered in the centre of Vismes, where houses were demolished to block strategic roads near Miannay.
"There was intense activity by our air force, which during the day pursued, with the greatest vigour, the harassing of the enemy," says another communique "Armoured units were again attacked with cannon, Tanks on new ground were bombed. Convoys on roads were hit and dispersed. Barly in the afternoon, over 150 machines, protected by French and British fighters, dropped an enormous tonnage of bombs on columns and enemy concentrations, A communique issued by the French Air Ministry declares: "The main objective last night was the destruction of pontoon bridges over the Somme. This destruction was effected from a low altitude.
"During the night, our splendid crews successfully bombed motorized columns and convoys on roads. Numerous bursts of machine-gun fire diQemed reinforcements and destroyed many supply columns.
"During the day, our "planes methodically bombed enemy motorized forces and annihilated marching formations. Hundreds of tons of explosives were dropped over enemy formations. Wherever the air force attacked vehicles, the latter were forced to leave the road or be destroyed.—Reuter.
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