London, June 14.
The German claim that the whole of the French front has broken down between the Channel and the Maginot Line as far as Montmedy is completely discredited in military circles in London.
As a French communique indicates, the movement of French troops continues in the greatest order. Authoritative quarters branded as pre-pesterous" an assertion by various German and Italian news services that the British and French Governments are offering Aleppo and Iraq to Turkey as the price of Turkish participation in the war.
"There is not a vestige of truth in this story, according to these quarters, which add: "Everyone outside Ger-riy and Italy know that neither Britain nor France conducts her diplomacy along such lines. Such cynical disregard of the rights of small nations would in any case constitute a complete negation of the chief objects for which the Allies US. Envoy Confers with Lord Halifax London. June 14.
The United States Ambassador at London, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, conferred with the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, yesterday, it was believed to discuss further United States assistance to the Allies.
With the German capture of Paris believed only a matter of days and the entire French nation thus placed in jeopardy, British requests for more American war materials to stave off the German threat have become more insistent. It was believed here that if American shipments of supplies to the Allies could be speeded up the German drive.could be stopped and the Germans driven back.—United Press.
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