FIRST TRICK TO GERMANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 11

FIRST TRICK TO GERMANS

taliated by bombing three towns benind their front." The Royal Air Force, in a raid this = ing ftj™**gg. j3 Om b e d and machine-gunned German columns advancing to support the mechanised drive to the Channel. Many tons of bombs were dropped Correspondents with the British Forces in France report stiff fighting all along the British line yesterday, andspeak of street fighting in Arras. The Royal Air Force last night contjnued their ceaseless watch over the English Channel. Activity increased after dawn and the sky sometimes was full of planes,

MAIN ALLIED FORCES NOT YET MET

(By Telegraph—Prew Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, May 22

A British United Press correspondent with the German army reports that General yon Reichenau, commander of the 6th German Army, told neutral journalists: "The fighting so far has been only preliminary encounters. We have won the first trick, but we have not yet met the main body of the Allied forces." *

German forces yesterday were J i ' j pushing with greatly increased speed towards the English Channel and mechanised units advanced well beyond battles which continued to rage between the Allied and enemy armies, This morning's official commumque issued from the French Army headquarters stated: "The enemy pressure has continued in the direction . , ' * •-. t- • j v of the coast, raids bemg made by small armoured detachments. In Lorraine the enemy bombed three towns behind our front and we re-