UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944
D-Day Forces Strike France Via Le Havre
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"All important air fields in the Brittany aera have been wiped out," a Berlin broadcast reported a few minutes before the official Allied announcement of the start of the invasion was made at 2:35 a.m.
That German coast defenses were battling Allied landing barges, and attacking forces already landed all the way from Cherbourg to the peninsula of Le Havre" was announced by another German news agency about 2:25 a.m. This includes an area of about 60 miles along the Bay of the Seine.
Six Battleships Off Seine
Six Allied battleships supported by more than 20 destroyers, were standing off the mouth of the Seine river, near Le Havre, according to a German broadcast made about 2:30 a.m. The report said that the warships were laying down a bombardment.
Allies Penetrate 10 Miles
Allied landing parties were reported by DNB at 3:10 a.m., to have reached the French city of Caen, about 10 miles south of the coast. Caen lies on the Orne river about half-way between Le Havre and Chambertou, two leading seaports on the north coast of France. The German news service declared that "the German forces are battling fiercely" and that "more enemy forces are being landed by sea and by air."
Caen is near Deauville, which was one of the leading fashionable seashore resorts in pre-war days. De Gaulle in England
Enough Rations For 8 Days
That Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, had arrived in England, was reported from London at 2:54 a.m.
Enough Rations For 8 Days
Washington, 3.35 a.m.—The landing forces of the Allies are carrying with them enough rations to last them for eight days at least, an official announcement from the Allied headquarters in the European theater.
Air Cover Is Adequate
Allied airplanes, covering the various landings, are "hitting the enemy at every point where such air support seems necessary" the Allied headquarters in London announced at 3:40 a.m. At least 45 square miles of Northern France was under attack within an hour after the official announcement of the start of "Liberation Day" was made in London. Gliders Land Shock Troops
That glider planes have landed specially trained Allied invasion forces miles inland, was reported from London by an observer who had just returned from a flight over the Normandie area.
"Fields for miles inland were go-
June 6 Is In News Once More
June 6, which marks the beginning of the long-awaited landing of the Allies in Western Europe to effect the liberation of peoples held under the Nazi iron hand for nearly five years, was also a fateful day in the struggle with Japan.
On June 6, 1942, Japanese naval forces limped away from the Midway area, having suffered one of its worst defeats to that time. The Japanese fleet was a mighty force, including aircraft carriers, battle-ships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines.
The huge battle force was met by U. S. Marine and Army fliers based on Midway, as well as by U. S. na- val surface ships and carrier planes. The defeat of the Japanese at Midway is now conceded to have been second only to our victory in Coral Sea in turning the tide of Japanese aggression.
Year Ago: Pantelleria
On June 6, 1943, United States and British forces in North Africa were getting ready for the assault on Pantelleria, Italian fortified island off the coast. Pantelleria fell on June 11, the first example of a major victory accomplished by air action. The Germans had surrendered on Cape Bon on May 13, ending the North African campaign.
Utley Chosen Head Of Mu Phi Epsilon
Ellen Utley, Fine Arts junior, was elected president of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music society, at a picnic meeting held last week.
Other officers elected for next year are; Peggy Kay, vice-president; Hope Crittenden, recording secretary; Anabel Keeler, treasurer; Harriet Danley, historian; Beth Beamer warden; Anne Krehbiel, chaplain and Helen Pierson, chorist.
Petroleum Engineers Make Gas Tests on Field Trip
The petroleum engineering class of the University made tests to determine the capacity of gas at the Otis gas field 30 miles west of Great Bend on a recent trip trip lead by Marshall Nye, instructor.
The group also inspected various oil field properties on the way. Stopping at the Bushton Compressor station, they inspected the equipment of the station and the superintendent described the operation of the plant to the students.
ted with gliders” he reported, “and with hundreds of parachutes of various colors.” The colors are used to make easy the identification of various paratroop units.
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Charles Nutter, news editor of the southwestern division of the Associated Press, and Jess C. Denious, Lieutenant-Governor of Kansas and editor of the Dodge City Daily Globe, have been selected to appear as speakers on the annual Kansan Board dinner here next Thursday, Elmer F. Beth, head of the journalism department, announced today.
Choosing Russia and the war as the topic for his address, Mr. Nutter will speak as an authority on the subject, as he served for sometime as chief of the Associated Press bureau in Moseow and in Madrid where he was stationed during the second year of the Spanish civil war. He was appointed to his present position in Kansas City, Mo., in November after acting as managing editor of La Presa Asociada, the Latin American affiliate of the AP last year.
Mr. Denious, one of Kansas' leading editors, will make a brief address at the dinner. Coming to the Dodge City Daily Globe in 1910 after six years as editorial writer on the Wichita Beacon, he soon became both editor and owner of the paper.
Editors Will Be Guest Speakers Of Kansan Board
Denious Is Special Guest
At the dinner, which will be given at 6:30 Thursday evening at the Colonial tea room, awards will be made for outstanding work done by journalism students during the past year. The senior who has exhibited the most unusual ability and scholarship will be announced, as well as those to whom scholarship certificates will be awarded by Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalism fraternity.
Chancellor Says Classes as Usual
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, awakened by a member of the Kansan staff at 4 this morning, stated that there would be no change in the University schedule today.
His first response when asked for a statement was, "Not at this time in the morning." Being informed that an Allied invasion was in progress, however, he said that he wished every success to the effort.
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The ribbon-like young eel is so transparent that print may be read through its body.
Between Calais and Boulogne are sloping cliffs, heavily guarded, and low and sand terrain with dunes in the rear which allow easy Nazi observation. Brittany is rugged and indented, with long estuaries and fringing islands. Germans holding the Channel Islands can harass landings on the beaches near St. Malo. Further inland, France's Maginot Line, once directed against Germany, has its guns now trained on the Allies.
Geographical obstacles, too, present difficulties. The northwestern terrain is marked by a succession of outward-facing scarps, command of
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Allies Strike at Nazis Via Vulnerable France
France is once again the battlefield of the world. Vulnerability to invasion has made it the route by which Allied forces are striking toward the heart of Nazi Germany.
More than half of France's frontiers face open seas, necessitating defense by the Germans of 1,872 miles of coastline; 672 miles along the English channel, 831 miles along the Atlantic, and 569 along the Mediterranean.
Of the six nations forming the land boundaries of France, three of them—Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland are either in the hands of the Allies or sympathetic with the Allied cause. Two hundred eighty-five miles of the French border face Belgium; 25 miles face Luxemburg; 230 miles, Germany; 260 miles, Switzerland; 350 miles, Spain, and 250 miles, Italy.
Invasion routes through Northern France are shortest and lead into rolling and cultivated country, plentifully served by roads and railroads. The starting points are near enough to England to receive air coverage by British-based planes. Great risk is involved, however, in the northern routes. The northern shore defenses of sea mines, land mines, barbed and electrified wire, and concealed concrete emplacements for rapid-fire guns are reputedly the strongest.
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The longer approaches to Germany through Southern France and along the Bay of Biscay are too far away from Germany to be as effectively guarded by the Nazis as the northwestern area. Good beaches and good ports are other advantages. At the same time the distance from Britain presents a considerable military disadvantage to the Allied forces.
L. L. Barrett Cited By Brazilian Radio
In a recent English language broadcast over Radio Nacional, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Prof. L. L. Barrett of the University's romance language department was mentioned for his work in the development of the teaching of the Portuguese language in this country.
The broadcast stated that Professor Barrett "had the excellent idea of publishing three plays by Brazilian writers, for use in schools, colleges, and universities, with his own notes on the text." The reading and analysis of plays is a method of foreign language study now widely recognized in the United States, because plays constitute the form of literature in which the spoken language assumes its most natural and fluent form.
"Prof. William Rex Crawford, cultural attache of the American embassy," the broadcast concluded, "representing Prof. L. L. Barrett, recently called on the Brazilian Playwrights' Society, and is gratified with this co-operation of the Brazilian theater in the diffusion of the Portuguese language among the educational establishments of the United States."
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