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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 1940
Page
1
Football style: Northbourne ISION 4 match notes show scores and opponents. Partial lines mention Griffith and Fosld with losses and wins, plus scattered player references. Details are fragmentary but indicate a ledger of recent games and outcomes for Northbourne teams.
Washington reports Germany advances toward the Seine as Allied positions face strain. Senator Vandenberg, an isolationist, argues the United States must aid the Allies while avoiding full war, asserting neutrality has shifted to nonbelligerency and that seizing Western Hemisphere areas would trigger U.S. combat. He warns any other course would be cowardly.
British and French forces struggle on the Western Front with three German thrusts near Rouen Soissons and Rethel. French Maginot Line artillery bombards German positions near the Swiss frontier as residents hear the 20 minute bombardment. Prime Minister Churchil states fresh British troops have landed in France and reinforcements are being organized.
King Haakon announced Norway would continue resistance on other fronts despite supply shortages. Norwegian government members disembarked from a British ship and rode trains to an unknown destination. German High Command claimed a complete victory at Narvik with enemy forces evacuating the region and negotiations for capitulation underway.
In Canberra postal notes valued at £2 were enclosed in an envelope without a covering letter. Reports from Moscow suggest progress between Russia and Japan on the Manchukuo issue. France’s cabinet held a meeting to reassess diplomacy and defence policy. Grace Fieldx arrived in Halifax aiding the British Servicemen's Fund and may visit Australia. London reports 120000 children leaving for Cornwall Devon Somerset and Wales for six days. New South Wales police will forgo their weekly day off to support the national war effort. Panama City notes an American inquiry into credentials of European unions employed on Canal construction, including Germans and Austrians.
A French night communique says the enemy extended the front near Argonne and pressed near Bresle, pushing armored columns toward Forges-les-Vaux and Arguell toward Rouen. Recon detachments reached Rouen outskirts and Pont de Lorche attempting Siebe crossing the Seine. Further east near Noyon the enemy faced setbacks with losses. another army between Olise near Noyon and Solessna also tested hard.
French forces repelled dawn and afternoon offensives by German divisions aided by armour along the Aisne near Soissons and Pontavert while Champagne fronts held. Parachutists north of Vouziers were trapped after a failed flank, and reconnaissance found several enemy columns exhausted with large material losses. Germany reportedly lost a thousand tanks in four days.
A Time correspondent reports French defenses hold despite intensified German attacks, while German fatigue and supply issues grow. French troops, praised for epic courage, have held ground with minimal retreat, facing waves of tanks and constant bombardment. Allied bombers strike German tanks as French batteries destroy dozens in a day.
Norwegian High Command ordered hostilities cease at Narvik as British and French troops embark. King Haakon and the Government reportedly left Norway. Allied troops withdraw to transfer soldiers and equipment to France with the knowledge of Norway's King and Government now in Great Britain. A portion of the navy adjourned to reform for action on other fronts.
The Admiralty announced it had information suggesting contact yesterday between British and German naval forces in northern waters. It said no further statement would be made until full reports are received.
An official spokesman announced at midnight that no bombs were dropped on Paris or its suburbs on Sunday. The closest bombs landed in the Oise Valley, about 15 miles from the outskirts.
President Roosevelt plans to leave Washington tomorrow to attend the University of Virginia graduation in Charlottesville. A White House official said the speech will be about 10 minutes, contain a major pronouncement on the world war, be broadcast and translated into several foreign languages, then rebroadcast later tonight.
RAF daylight raids over Bresle and Somme regions hit mobile columns and tank lines, machine guns, and petrol dumps, with tanks and transport scattered near Amiens Poix and Hornoy. Evening strikes set petrol stores alight, while night attacks targeted rail yards, bridges, and oil depots in Germany and occupied France. several enemy aircraft were shot down and a RAF pilot reported burning convoys near Wavre.
Word spreads that Mussolini will address the nation while Black Shirts assemble across the country and recruits move toward ports, with many drafted toward Africa. Vatican preparations for war and diplomatic moves with British, French, and Soviet envoys are reported amid mounting tensions in the Mediterranean.
Sergeant J W B Phillips received the D F M while posted missing after recent combat in which he shot down four Messerchmitts and possibly another. Flight Lieutenant G A Logthart earned the D S O for May offensive patrols over Northern France, including a formation attack on 60 enemy aircraft. His squadron tallies 15 Messerschmitts and Junkers destroyed. he also piloted a damaged aircraft to Calais to rescue a squadron commander. An enemy attack followed during takeoff.
Richard McMakin, formerly a KLM pilot, arrived in Darwin recounting that about 40 airliners were lost when Germany seized the Netherlands. He notes KLM now runs only a skeleton service between Naples and Batavia, claiming there are no planes left to fly.
In Budapest on Sunday the Arrow Cross party presented a parliamentary bill. It proposes semi autonomous status for Hungarian minority groups, the largest being Germans, numbering about 500000.
Tokyo reports a formal note from the Foreign Office that Ambassador Toga of Japan and Ambassador Molotov of the Soviet Union agreed yesterday on the precise frontier in the Nomohan area, with mutual recognition of respective interests.
A secret session of the House of Commons is scheduled for tomorrow to review war plans. Mr Lea and other MPs are expected to raise questions, while the Prime Minister Mr James may outline the government’s stance and anticipated actions.
A survivor recounts the sinking of the Carin thia after a clash with the Ute 7, describing the peril faced by the crew as the warship went down and the seamen attempted to escape.
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