Washington, May 22.
At a press conference yesterday, President Roosevelt denounced the machine-gunning of French refugees ey German aircraft, German planes, he said, were sweeping down roads in France wita their machine-guns wide open, taking a death roll of refugees ihe like of which had never been seen before.
11e thought ihat the United States would realize the implications of that -nechod of warfare.
Referring to the word "implication," President Roosevelt did not reveal what he thought the implication should be, but remarked that the United States was pretty well united in the current situation, and the faster the news came from Europe she more united the American people became.
He added that 5,000,000 women and children Were fleeing southward in France along a 200-mile front, using every available road, mostly on foot or in carts, with German planes gunning them.
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