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_ — -- M*—tTWO DEADLY STROKESSucceeds Reynaudlies.Fight-foiir yhir old MarshalI*miri Petaiii. hero of world war1. was selected last night to lead the new Frell* h govet miien* i It ei f !i *• rollapse of the lte!laud abinet,CUT DEEP INTO FRANCEFor Second Time In War tht Nazis Claim To Have Split French Army Into Parts for Piecemeal At# tacks; Alsace Lorraine andMaginot Line Cutt Off From Maginot Line; Germans Announce France’s Backbone Broken.s til it thrhack honlt;brokenBeilin, .1 nne 17 V I Ashing deep into Frame with deadlyvt rakes in two direct uwts Germany rdaitiied today her arvn?eshad cut off AVaee and f^orrainn and the .Maginot line and had-mashed soutiiwai d into central Frame to take historic Orleansami crons the Loire river.Thus for the second tune tn the-1r• war the ihr mans said thev hudFrench army into ttoparts for piecemeal attacks.“The political and militaryof France already issaid authorized sources in summing up the reports of j smashing military successes andI the fan of the French government j with establishment of what was I regarded here as a military regimeW* vunder Marshal IVtain.The Germans made no estimates of the number of French t oops and the amount of war ma 'rials in the area they had ringe* in atthe tear of the Maginot line but unofficial estimate? were t at uP-j wards of a million* Frenet troops Iweie in the Alsace and Lorraine arcsThe drive of the Go nans to Fontarlier meant eml»-tir* ofwhatever forces remain* I in the.zone.
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Wilson Times
Wilson, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1940
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