INTENSE BATTLE RAGES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 169, 17 June 1940, Page 7

INTENSE BATTLE RAGES

fierce french resistance NAZIS THROW IN RESERVES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—- , Copyright.) Received June 17, 9 a.m. • LONDON,. June 16. The French day * communique, which was broadcast throughout France, states that the battle has reached its highest point of intensity during the'past 24 hours. The enemy, constantly throwing in fresh reserves, supported by considerable powerful material, into the struggle, is violently continuing his attacks over the Langres Plateau and has succeeded in pushing armoured reconnaissance elements beyond Chaumont (20 miles south-south-east of Langres) to the region of Gray : (which lies just east of the Saon River and 60 miles y west of the Jura mountain). “Our troops,” says the communique, “continue to fight «• with the same bravery, opposing with fierce resistance the \invader despite the enemy’s superiority in material and effectives.” . The French Cabinet met at 11 a.m. and is still sitting. The British United Press Bordeaux correspondent says the atmosphere is tense, and the meeting is regarded as the most important since the outbreak of the war.