The country's food supplies were short and. forces were put on half rations. By May 24, it was obvious that the Belgians were giving way and two British divisions. had. to. 0 {to the Belgian front immediately to prevent an arm of the piseer {rom Roing towards Dunkirk and cutting off the British forees, "When we saw General Blanchard the following morning, he and his star were making plang for a. with: drawal as fast ay possible—it was the only thing he could do."
General Weygand's plan was ad~ mirable on paper, but it came too firstly because there were too Germans in the area, and see we before. it could be brought off the British left flank had there were not stiMeient to deal with both flanks lan Did Not Mature Surcouf is the Germany Threatens Treland London, July 8.
position during the present anxious Attention is focussed on, trends moments by the visit of Lord Craigavan, Prime Minister of Northern Treland, "yesterday to London, where he had "wholly satisfy {talks with Mr, Winston the Prime Minister, and other Ministers.
Mr, John Miller Andrews, Finance Minister of Northera Ireland, declared in the course of a speech at Belfast lik that if Northern Ireland abandoned partition and joined Eire on Mr. Eamon de Valera's terms, she would become neutral instead" of being actively engaged, as now, in the fight beside Great Britain. Such was unthinkable, he added, July 7 Vister and About that date the BEF, were extended on a ling of 7 miles, Part of the Weyand plain th The French Should at jek northwards, never man if General Lord Gort had vith his part of the plan on May 26 and had achieved major success by reaching Cambrai, thera would hi a gap. from Ypres to fe north without British troops at all. The British could not have Joined hands with The French, at Cambrai because the French never came and the British would have lost the Sth and 50th Divisions for certainty, The oticer mentioned that only once during the retirement did the Germans make a frontal attaek—at Ypres and "they were simply slaughter The vast majority of by the BEF, "We kept waiting for news of the' attack from the south [but nothing pened, and we wert but relief of from outside." question of British But it way stated ters this evening that doubt solution would We fat ind to sive neutrality. and, nonetheless. elleetively. prevent frame hoping, for "benefits from an attack such as that against the Low Countries Tinmediate cause of the Eire-Ulster disclosed today, were London to Premier Winston Churchill the results of the Joint investigation Naturally, the greatest secrecy maintained about these conversations, which are, so closely Tinked with the being, that to that in the Low Cou eve "of the German
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