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Surrender Barred – 2
The Text of Prime Minister Churchill’s Address Before the House of Commons – 3-4
Reprisals Taken – 5
Nazis Camouflage Tanks To Awe Foe by Their Size – 5
Hitler Threatens to Destroy Allies – 6
Merchant Ship Toll is Below Average – 6
House to Consider Labor Act Changes – 7
Paris Toll 254 Dead, 652 Hurt; 20 Children Among Bomb Victims – 8
Finland Anxious to Pay Installment on Its Debt – 8
Merchant Ships Sunk in War – 8
Dunkerque Siege a ‘Hell’s Concert’ – 9
British Find Nazis Had the Key Tools – 9
Berlin is Exultant Over Raid on Paris* – 10
The International Situation – 11
Terrain of Western Front – 12
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 13-15

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f05jun40.htm

Germans attack Somme defenses

Wednesday, June 5, 1940 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... The German attack on the line of the Somme begins. The French have used the period of the Dunkirk battle to make some defensive preparations but not enough to compensate for the weakness of their forces. These are now organized as Army Groups Three and Four. Army Group Three holds the Somme near the coast and Army Group Four the line of the Aisne. The German attack is code named Operation Rot. Their tank forces, now organized in two Panzer Groups and one Panzer Corps, are given the leading role. The heaviest fighting at first in the area between Amiens and the sea where Hoth’s Panzer Corps is heading the drive.

In Paris... In a Cabinet reshuffle Daladier is dropped and the newly promoted General de Gaulle is made Under-Secretary for Defense.