"Chancellor Hitler yesterday hurled fan estimated 1,600,000 troops. into the" blasting German drive as the Battle of France reached the "eruclat hour," Paris was critically threatened by German encirclement on both the east and west.
East of the Argonne Forest and on to the Swiss border the giant guns of the Maginot and Slegtried Lines swelled the din yesterday of the greatest battle ever fought, On other fronts the battle was being fought mostly.in the open, even without trenches, French' military ofieials admitted.
French reports said, however, that Chancellor Hitler's massed tanks had been "dislocated" by the efficiency of Gen, Maxime Weygand's rear line traps and that In a desperate effort to achieve a "knockout blow," Germany had thrown 1,500,000 troops into savage frontal assaults all along curving battle line ever drawing loser to Paris,
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