... French outposts at varous points, supported by droves of dive-bombers. Day-by-Day Diary Juno 1. t940-272nd Day at War In evacuation of Dunkirk. . German raids on Marseilles. Zeebrugge blocked by the Navy. Toulon and Lyons ; about 70 killed.. . B.E.F. pouring ...

... preliminary move of theirs to try to discourage evacuation. Meanwhile. however, the logic of 'events is against the indefinite Icnntinuance of evacuation. The Haberdashers' Girls' School, which 'was evacuated from West Acton to Dorsetshire. is to return ...

... transports and merchantmen. In the Dardanelles they landed troops while in the same campaign, in the Suez Canal, and on the Flanders coast, they bombarded enemy troops and positions ashore. They were utilised for minelaying as well as for minesweeping. is ...

... have oeen weeks, ana certainly days, in which to retire in orderly fashion from a place so far from immediate danger. Now Flanders has shown that it is merely a matter of hours. A gap of a mile, a delay of three hours in closing that gap, and the result ...

... he said, coupled with the name of the waiter who has not been near this end of the table all evening. During the evacuation of Flanders ten captured Jerries had to be released. When they got back an officer questioned how they were caught. We were out ...

... time ago. In the light of recent events she wasn't so very malaprop after all.) AFTER the ckteat of the Allied armies in Flanders I wrote: Among the factors which have contributed to the success of War Lord Ado.f I put Panic one of the first. When 1 ...

... by the Rev, Stanley Moore, a chaplain to the Force*, who bee just returned from Flanders, He spoke of the remarkable climatic conditions which had helped in the evacuation of Dunkirk, and said was sure was due to our prayer that so many men had returned ...

... epic evacuation of the B.E.F. and French troops from Dunkirk, being towed up the river. Two-seater motor boats and small river yachts, slender and frail, returned after days of bombing and bombardment while they brought back the men from Flanders. Now ...

... of his impending surrender. I do not know whether he gave any more hours than ex-King Leopold gave to General Blanchard in Flanders. But I do not think that he gave Mr. Churchill very much time in which to re-orientate his entire plans. After all, it is ...

... found employment for some seven hundred of their , but that since then , and more particularly since the withdrawal from Flanders , E . N . S . A . had not been able to find employment for more than one band , partly no doubt becau . se of the War Office ...

... behind the lines. To me, as it does to others, Bordeaux represents the end of a sad mission. We arrived there after hurried evacuation, from Pernay, near Tours, on the afternoon of June 14 after a hazardous journey. Everyone was in a hurry. The roads were ...

... ROUNDABOUT NOTES Flanders Battle IT SEEMS at the time of writing that a considerable part of the B.E.Y. has been evacuated, though there have inevitably been heavy casualtiee—news of Ealing ones is beginning to arriveand loss of valuable material. AU ...