RAF Blasts Cologne Into Ruins
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Blasts into Ruins IS ABSOLUTELY Saw Hitler One Week Cologne \ THE BEST AND > , y A THE MOST—1 Before Attack Began, Seized Diary Shows Allies to Achieve in 1,000 Bombers Hit x Canterbury Raided Reprisal By HARRY CROCKETT, Air Superiority, Nazi City With Associated Press War Correspondent. Three Waves of Nazi Planes WITH THE BRITISH FORCES American Asserts By Record Attack IN THE LIBYAN DESERT, May Are 30 (Delayed).—Gen. Ludwig Several Historic Buildings Wrecked; Cruewell, coihmander of the By the Associated Press. By DREW MIDDLETON, German African Corps and sec- LONDON, June 1.—Lt. Gen. First Put Toll at 12 Dead Associated Press War Correepondent. Reports ond only to Field Marshal Erwin Henry H. Arnold, head of the LONDON, June 1.—Germany By the Associated Press. Rommel in the North African United States Air Forces, an- can be knocked out of the war CANTERBURY, England, June 1.—Three waves of German command, was captured yester- nounced today he had “prac- by fall, crushed by huge fleets of air raiders, totaling about 25 planes, attacked this ancient cathe- day and found in possession of a tically completed” conferences American and British bombers, dral town today with tons of high explosives and incen- diary which show’ed he conferred with British leaders aimed at de- early air experts predicted today as diaries. with Adolf Hitler only a week veloping “the maximum impact the German city of Cologne lay Several historic buildings were wrecked by bombs or fire before Marshal Rommel's latest of our combined air strength” on in flaming ruin under the most during the raid, which apparently was in reprisal for the R. A. F.’s attack. Germany. devastating air raid in history. devastating attack on Cologne Saturday night. Gen. Cruewell. 55. former com- Gen. who arrived in Brit- ■ ■ —’■ — 1 When the R. A. P. sent more than Arnold, Among the buildings hit were* j» mander of Nazi tank formations ain last week, declared: 1,000 bombers with the greatest I two churches, two schools, a hotel in France and Yugoslavia, was time this whole area was a mass weight of steel and explosive ever “It Is obvious no offensive against and a newspaper office. Many taken prisoner when a reconnais- of flames. borne on wings into the Rhineland Nazi-occupied Europe can succeed homes were wrecked or burned out. sance plane in which he was a All the fires were under control Saturday night, these sources de- without air superiority and we mean (An authoritative source in passenger was forced down by anti- clared, its flyers heralded not only to have it.” London said the Canterbury by daylight, however. aircraft fire in the center of the an eventual invasion of Hitler’s He spoke at his first press con- Cathedral doubtless was one of Though many residents were left British lines. Europe, but also the systematic de- ference since his arrival and the Germans' objectives, but homeless, they went about their Earlier it praised struction of his war machine, city had been thought that to work as well as the by Saturday night's mammoth raid by added: “It is not proposed today emergency Lt. Gen. Nehring had taken com- farm- city, factory by factory. the R. A. F. on Cologne as “a won- assist the enemy by giving any permitted. By mid-morning mand of the corps—there even was The R. A. F. continued its of- derful show'.” He said the sooner information as to whether dam- ers were bringing stock into town- a rumor that he had succeeded the in American could take their was caused or not." in many instances leading it over fensive against Nazis daylight planes age a Marshal Rommel—but it became in today with flights of fighters active Trials of Traveling Salesman place side by side with the R. A. F. (He said "some 50” planes smoldering wreckage. apparent that he was sent to the over Northern France, on similar raids "the better it will all attacked British targets, half First official reports said 12 per- apparently desert only to fill In for Gen. Crue- concentrating on the Calais area. be.” of them raiding Canterbury. sons wrere known killed, but that well during the latter’s home leave. was the Co- U. S. to Send Balanced Unit. (In Berlin the German high other bodies might be found. Of such magnitude raid that a masterwork Returned May 24. The general avoided questions re- command said “thousands of The new Archbishop of Canter- logne only New Offensive 908 Return on of with the bombers Begun Drottningholm; Gen Cruewell, who became a full garding when the United States high explosive fire bombs” were bury was in the town during the organization, over their at 6- general last December, left the des- flyers would be flying from the dropped on Canterbury and raid, but he was reported safe. i swarming targets second made It ert March 24 and returned May 24, British isles, saying: "I hope the pilots observed large fires after Authorities /id the spirit of co- j intervals, possible. 3 Subs on Sighted Crossing two before the zero hour will be when the low-level attacks.) of Raid. Japanese just days first hear about it between the and By Army you operation people Summary for the African the town was Corps’ new drive. they arrive.” Scarcely any section of air-raid services remarkable and Its paralyzing might was told In Sev- Twelve From D. C., Maryland and Virginia Gen. Cruewell probably is the most He said the American air force was missed by the bombers. that many were unwilling to leave astronomical figures: In South China important general yet to fall into unit eral large stores were wdped out in their homes though the houses often In Europe would be a balanced Of three-fourths of Cologne Those Axis British hands. the business section, and at one were fire. Among Exchanged by of fighters, bombers and all other ringed by a _ afire and under 3-mile-high “Captured Italian officers gava types of planes. I of smoke: Attack Launched After THOMAS R. pall By HENRY, him a most deferential Fascist sa- “In air in any Star Staff Correspondent. gaining superiority Of more than 1.000 bombers Arrival of Fresh lute when he departed," said a Brit- theater,” he went on, “we haven’t roaring over their German NEW YORK, June 1.—Out of Axis internment camps 908 North ish officer who escorted Gen. Crue- ideal Russians Forestall 111 Killed al time to wait for airdromes, Cologne, targets in Cologne, and elsewhere Troops, Tokio Says and South American diplomats, journalists and others caught by well to quarters assigned to him. or ideal conditions. Ideal aircraft in the Rhineland and the Ruhr the declaration of war In continental Europe reached home today. The tall, ruddy-faced, grizzled the Associated Press. "Our enemies have demonstrated Valley in a 90-minute procession By me sweaisn uner officer with the of the desert Nazis 'Great urouningnoim^- j grime that they are willing to take their Nazis Reinforcing Assert; of death and destruction; TOKIO (From Japanese Broad- docked at Jersey City in a driving i struggle still on him faced newspa- Admiral Leahy was the first off losses. We must be prepared to Of perhaps 1,250 planes in all, castsi, June 1.—The Japanese rain and there was a long delay for I per cameras unabashed. the boat followed by men and take our losses, too. but we are going including the bombe'sr protective Army in South China has begun final examinations of papers and Asked w’hat he thought about the Admitted women many of whom were step- to make them count. Kalinin Positions Fighter escort, in the greatest an offensive in Prov- the removal of the body of Mrs. Russian campaign, where he Damage’ Kwangtung ping on American soil for the first parti- “It has been agreed that the aerial armada ever put into the William D. Leahy, wife of the Am- in the Kiev drive last fall, t ince, an announcement from its time in many years. cipated best results will be achieved if at one bassador to who died in skies time; to- Vichy, Twelve from he replied curtly, "I don’t speak on in American Lines Four Historic Churches headquarters at Canton said Washington and American crews fly Important Enemy Of of bombs France. military or political 6.000.000 pounds day. nearby Maryland and Virginia were subjects.” planes as American units except as Ship's officers said three Axis sub- ! Northwest of Moscow Listed by Berlin dropped; listed on the passenger list, all The plane in which Gen. Cruewell when emergency conditions dictate The attack was launched at dawn marines were sighted on the 10-dav ; Of twice the number of planes State Department employes or serv- was forced down was a Fieseler another course.