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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 24.
Allied Guns Pound Gap
Plot On Trotzky Foiled
Mexico City, May 24,—(UP) A band of 20 unidentified gunmen in a swift 4 am. raid poured machine gun fire into Leon Trotzky's bedroom today in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him.
One guard, Archie Sheldon, was kidnaped by the raiders, all of whom were described as speaking Spanish. Sheldon was the object of a widespread police search.
Trotzky and his wife, who were unhurt, rolled from their bed and lay on the floor while gunfire rattled at their suburban coyoacan villa for nearly 15 minutes.
In a statement Trotzky said that the dawn attack "Was organized by the GPU (Soviet Secret Police) under the direct supervision of Stalin himself."
"Nothing else is possible because of the character of the assault," Trotzky said. He said that no blame could be attached to Mexican political groups because he had no enemies among them.
One of Trotzky's guards said that in addition to using machine guns against Trotzky the raiders carried a thermos bottle filled with incendiary liquid which they tossed into the Trotzky home.
Trotzky said it might be "natural that some Mexican communists participated in the affair but the raid itself was engineered by Russian communists."
German Iron Ring—
(Continued from page one) squeezed ever more tightly and all Allied counter-blows have been repulsed.
The German claims included
1. A break through the Scheldt river front (held largely by the British) in Belgium to the western bank of the Lys river, which joins the Scheldt at Ghent. Street fighting was reported in Ghent and the German advance was described as again threatening to take the Allied forces in the rear.
Later official reports said German troops were advancing into the city of Ghent.
2. Capture of the Belgian town of Tourain, only 12 miles from the big French textile city of Lille, and occupation of Maubeuge, on the French frontier, where Allied forts now behind the main lines were taken.
Menace To Boulogne
Huge Underground City Lies Beneath Berlin
3. A German thrust through the Arras sector to capture Loretto heights, northwest of the French town, and permit armored units to smash on toward the channel ports of Calais and Dunkirk. This thrust, if successful, would not only flank the Allies fighting at Boulogne but would reduce by about half the
Berlin, May 24—(UP)A vast underground city-large enough to shelter 2,500,000 people and complete with operating rooms, police stations and food warehouseshas been built secretly under the German capitol, it was revealed today.
Some of the passages, built under canals and under the Spree river lead to wooded suburbs where Berliners would be comparatively safe from air bombing.
secretly under the management of it.
It is a network of miles of subterranean passages that lead to air raid shelters, and is linked at key points with the City's subway system, it is said. □
These modern catacombs, designed to permit life as normal as possible during an air raid, were built with the utmost secrecy and many people here do not realize that their homes and gardens rest above the passages.
All the average person knew of the underground system was that shelters were being provided under all new buildings as they were built.
The vastness of the system was a surprise. Hospital clinics complete with modern operating rooms are said to be the equivalent of three stories underground. Elevators are in place to bring the patients quickly to the clinics.
The underground city has its own power plant and a pump system for the utilization of artesian wells in case the main water pipes are cut.
Three Cities--area of the trap drawn around the Allied armies. Nazis said.
There are several radio sending sets at various points and police stations are fully equipped to maintain order during air raids. Large storage rooms contain hundreds of thousands of gas masks.
(Continued from page one) with seventeen scheduled to graduate in June. This will leave 52 on the campus when school opens in September if all complete their requirements to maintain the scholarship.
The scholarships are the gift of Solon E. Summerfield, a New York manufacturer and graduate of the University, who in 1929 set aside $5,-000 for that year, $10,000 for the next year, 15,000 for the next, and $20,-000 annually thereafter to enable Kansas high school seniors of superior ability and excellent character to attend the University.
The scholarships, which are administered by the Endowment association, insure a college course free of financial worry to superior students. The exact stipend in each case is governed by the needs of the student and the course of study which he is taking.
The University commencement week will be put on the air five times this year as programs ranging from one-half hour to a full hour in length portray various events of commencement week over the University's station, KFKU.
4. Destruction of 49 Allied airplanes, 56 Allied tanks (replaced in an attempt to break out of the trap), six loaded transports in the English channel and damage to a warship, probably a cruiser, and three destroyers by aerial bombardment.
Thirteen Seek Manager Post
Thirteen men have applied for Varsity Dance manager for next year, it was announced this morning by Henry Werner, men students' adviser. Yesterday was the deadline for applications.
In accord with the plan approved by the M.S.C. at its final meeting, last Monday, the selection is to be made by a committee of five, two representatives from the M.S.C. (one from each party), two from the W.S.G.A., and Mr. Werner. This system must be approved by the W.S.G.A., however, before it becomes official. The women's council meets next Tuesday.*
Fred Littooy, l'41, who held the office this year, is still eligible, and has applied again.
German Units Pour Through Lines at Arras
Notice To N.Y.A. Students
All N.Y.A. students are requested to leave their summer addresses at the office as soon as possible, it was announced today.
Paris, May 24—(UP)—New German mechanized and motorized units are driving northward toward the Channel ports through the Somme-arras gap in the Allied lines under a terrible rain of fire from Allied heavy guns and airplanes, a military informant said today.
The entire gap between the Allied army of the north, withdrawing from Belgium, and the main French army, the army of the south, was now under a violent Allied bombardment by Allied artillery and airplanes it was asserted.
Nevertheless, the military informant said, the Germans persisted in a desperate race through the Somme-Arras gap in an attempt to reinforce their men on the coast.
It was said that the detachments were small and that many of their units had been destroyed.
The general situation in the Boulogne and Channel port areas generally was confused because of numerous running fights between German detachments and Allied forces, the military informant said.
The progress of German detachments toward the Channel was described rather as an escape through the Allied fire than an advance in force.
The Allies, it was said, had now
reduced from 35 to 25 miles the between their armies between Somme at the Arras area after ting Arras and extending their f to the Arras-Bapaume road.
Heavy fighting continued in Valenciennes-Cambrai region or Escaut river, the military spokesman said, and the Allies had with local successes and failed alike. The general situation had maledied unchanged throughout night, he said.
E. Taylor Returns From Science Med
Dr. E. H. Taylor, professor of ology, who recently returned to Washington, D.C., where he was delegate to the eighth American scientific Congress, held every years, said today he was "impress by both the scientific meetings the entertainment accorded representatives.
The Congress, according to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, constituted "this Government's outstanding contribution to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of founding of the Pan American Union." Twenty-one American pub'lists participated in the Con-
Doctor Taylor presented a p "Island Fauna on the Mexican teau," in the biological sciences, tion of the Congress. Preece Doctor Taylor's paper, Wi Beebe, New York Zoological Society showed motion pictures of deep life.
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