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allied thrust • SOMME AND AISNE TWO HUNDRED MILES SEMBLANCE OF ORDER ARMIES IN CONTACT * ■■■■■•' i' 1 ■ • FRANCE AND BELGIUM (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. May 23, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. ;Messages from Paris state that, talcing a stand against the doubleheaded German thrust to the Channel and to Paris, the Allies to-night fixed a riiiew front along the Somme and the Aisne for 200 miles across northern France, from Which they 'counterattacked against the German raiding columns, recapturing Arras. ;A semblance of military order has been forged out of the chaos created by the lightning German drive. The disclosure that General Weygand had conferred with the chiefs of the Belgian Allied armies in the north indicated that communications were not severed between the main French anhy : and the Allies operating in Belgium. .The. French military spokesman stressed, that the Allies had not. yet met large enemy units, and in the confusion light German motor-cycle units were continuing the push to the sea.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 7
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