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... only 25 miles wide at its widest point . German troops advancing in , Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk were stated to have reached the River Yser . Dunkirk the agency claimed , is now within the range of the German heavy artillery , and its harbour ...
... 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 ? : ...
... while on the other side of the Channel their remaining comrades and French Allies fought a terrific rearguard battle to hold Dunkirk and the coast until withdrawal is complete . The desperate rearguard action is still going on . The men who have returned ...
... - and it is on the Yser that British troops are now endeavouring to prevent the Germans from advancing along the coast to Dunkirk , which is the only base left to them on which to withdraw . A small British force was sent last week to hold Calais and to ...
... of the Flanders plain , dotted with windmills and lines of poplars , and divided up with canals and ditches as far as Dunkirk . Dunkirk itself is now an entrenched campand is almost inaccessible from the east , whence it can be reached only by a narrow ...
... 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 ...
... ArsteuilO l ^ onUW'W Gaiwes The two dotted lines indicate the sides of the corridor through which the Allied withdrawal to Dunkirk is being carried out . The Germans are striving to close its entrance between Mounts Cassel and Kcznmel . Achiet ...
... and troop transports , which were to bring home the remainder o £ the beaten B . E . F . in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend . , All branches of the Services joined in the attack , which was ' directed against more than 60 ships . Three ...
... 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. ...