... ROAD TO DUNKIRK NOW OPENED TO GERMANS Paris, Tuesday. Broadcasting to the French nation at 8.30 this morning, M. Reynaud, Prime Minister, said: I have to inform the French people of a grave event. This event occurred during the night. France can no longer ...

... HOUSANDS OF B.E.F. HOME AS REARGUARD FIGHTS ON Three Destroyers Lost in Withdrawal FRENCH DIVISIONS REACH DUNKIRK pART of the B.E.F. has been safely evacuated. Many have already reached this country. Yesterday they were arriving by thousands. Three British ...

... contained a large number of the enemy, and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B.E.F. in its withdrawal on Dunkirk. This action will count among the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army.” ...

... fresh hope for the orderly and unbroken withdrawal of the B.E.F. in the splendid joint Anglo-French Naval cover provided off Dunkirk. Even the Italian Press has to pay reluctant tribute to the matchless tenacity of our troops, and our marines are now adding ...

... positions of d coast north-east Skje d. received from its to *L er cease fire, thus kV J'nl ® en emy the road to nes and to Dunkirk. our troops, under the Vi: eneral Blanchard and 5 in close collaboration Army under Lord ® dto face an increased •8 in these ...

... is meeting with resistance at Boelogne. and the opposition should be stronger if the Germans atempt to push on to Calais, Dunkirk, and the Belgian border. Also it should be possible to bring air assistance, both fighter and bomber, fairly quickly from ...

... firmly as theirs. The 8.E.F., it must be remembered, is not beaten force, though its position is so obviously criticalwith Dunkirk threatened. Our home morale must remain as rock-like. M. Reynaud has made the same appeal to the French people, and Anglo-French ...

... were these ; Birmingham's 27's Number 10,118 A continuous air battle was fought over the French coast between Calais and Dunkirk Pilots reported that the sky was filled with aircraft. One formation of Junkers 88*s was trying to bomb ships when a Spitfire ...

... very heavy, particularly in the early fighting along the Albert Canal. Although King Leopold’s action opened the road to Dunkirk, the Allied command never lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediately went out: “The Britisti and French on ...

... frontier zone, and one cannot think that France wants its northern provinces wrecked again. Moreover, the strategic railway from Dunkirk to Metz, which the Boches found so useful in the last war for lateral communication, would be denied to the Allies if the ...

... all appearances, cut off from its main source of supplies, and though we still have limited use of harbours like Calais, Dunkirk. Zeebrugge and Ostend, little in the way of heavy material can be got in through them. UUr here is a gleam comfort for a very ...

... THE HEMMED-IN BRITISH AND FRENCH MIES in north are being withdrawn. 'lei! e lg' ans capitulation has opened the road to Dunkirk—but the ar still holding the port. Leopold in wteau Drama The Germans, free of Belgian resistance, are putting on ever-increasing ...