... General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army in the north. UNCONDITIONAL CAPITULATION The Belgian Army has now suddenly and unconditionally capitulated ...

... about 22,000 tons. One destroyer was badly damaged by bombs. The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover.” OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES French To-day’s French Official communique states: the North fighting continues with the ...

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy’s hands. The fort of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. important events on the southern front.” Informed circles in London stated last night that there is ...

... great effectiveness. The bridgehead which the Germans established on the Somme has been definitely wiped out. The port of Dunkirk is an entrenched camp firmly held and supported by the heavy guns of the Fleet, continues the French spokesman. It forms the ...

... resolution, the British and French armies in the North are making a desperate bid to drive their way through to the coast. Dunkirk, the principal French port, ...

... between Allied and enemy units, which are closely intermingled. Up to last night French units still held out in Calais, and Dunkirk has been heavily bombed, but the town is not directly threatened. The official military spokesman said to-day that the Germans ...

... under Lord Gort, are bearing the brunt of the defence of these two fronts. German attacks south-westward from Bruges aimed at Dunkirk have encountered fierce resistance by the British on the Yser. It is to be noted in this respect that the British are defending ...

... rearguard action against the German hordes. Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly, not only in the fortified area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded by flood waters, but also to the west of the Yser Canal, the French military spokesman stated ...

... them I was bombed On our last night in Holland we were bombed. In Zeebrugge. Belgium, we slept through an air raid, and in Dunkirk we were bombed again Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. ' Ostend we watched German ’planes sweep down ...

... except that when troops maintain their morale and continue to fight in the face of heavy odds the incredible often happens. Dunkirk is still held and massed R.A.F. and French ’planes are dropping barrages of bombs to afford protection to the troops. ...

... warning. The result is that the left wing of the sorely-tried Allied Army has collapsed, and the road has been thrown open to Dunkirk, through which port the semi - beleaguered Allied forces were being provisioned. King Leopold has, in effect, made the Germans ...

... that the opening shot will come from German long-range guns at Calais. Popolo di Roma,” commenting on German reports that Dunkirk and Ostend are threatened, declares that England is thus about to lose her last bridgehead on the Continent. y ...