... DUNKIRK ATTACK GERMANS CLAIM SINKING OF . ALLIED SHIPS Sweeping claims to have inflicted damage at Dunkirk on Allied naval units were made in a special communique issued by the German High Command to-day The communique stated: | “Yesterday evening and ...

... France BOMBERS ACTIVE CALAIS AND DUNKIRK AMONG TOWNS RAIDED Germany started bormbing operations in France early this morning. Seven French air flelds situated at Colmar, Lyons, Nancy, Pointoise, Lille, Longwy, and Luxeuil, near Vesoul, it is officially ...

... magnetic mine and sank, and he, after swimming for some time, was the only one to be rescued, The beaches and sand dunes around Dunkirk have been alive with troops for the past three days waiting to be evacuated and being evacuated. At more and more frequent ...

... badly damaged by bombs. “The German air force also successs fully bombed the Korts Dunkirk and Dover. German high speedboats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk.” vl On inquiry at the Air Ministry to-day the Press Association was informed that ...

... and mines, but also on purely civilian centres. It is known that among the places attacked were Bethune, Choques, Lens, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Nancy, Hazebrouck, Calais, Abbeville, Doulens, and Albert. The material damage is reported to be relativel yslight ...

... broken in a short time. : ; “The attack against the rest of the British Army in the loop between Furnes, Bergues, and west of Dunkirk is proceeding. The loop is only a few miles deep, is flat, and has been flooded. The enemy is resisting here stubbornly, the ...

... near Ypres. ~ The claim to have captured Calais is repeated in the communique, which also says that harbour equipment at Dunkirk is ablaze as the result of bombing by German ’planes. ...

... the sea front saw shells bursting in the sky. The activity a%peared to be on the other side of the C artl.nel — the Ostend-Dunkirk-Calais coas ? : ...

... that no damage other than that already reported was done. : Yesterday’s Berlin communique said that Zeebrugge, Ostend, and Dunkirk had been bombed, an ammunition dump and a naval depot in Ostend being set on fire ...

... COURAGE AND CALMNESS UJ) to last night French units still held out in Calais. Dunkirk has been h_eawlly bombed, but the town is not directly threatened. Enemy back areas, troop concentrations, columns of infantry and tanks. and temporary earthworks were ...

... Hurricanes and Defiants last night shot down 22 of a large force of German bombers and fighters in a tertific air battle over Dunkirk without loss to themselves. ...

... and avoid being encircled. Whatever may happen, one may say.that the falling back of the French and gritish troops towards Dunkirk has taken place under conditions much more satisfactory than might have been expected after the surrender of the Belgian Army ...