... French Warships Guard Dunkirk To Cover Withdrawal OTORY OF THE B.E.F.’s STRUGGLE TO PROTECT 0 THE FLANK LAID BARE BY LEOPOLD’S BETRAYAL AND TO FIGHT ITS WAY BACK TO THE COAST IN THE FACE OF ATTACK FROM ALMOST EVERY DIRECTION, WAS SIMPLY TOLD IN THE FOLLOWING ...

... claim to have reached the River Yser in their advance on Dunkirk, and to have the port within the range of their heavy artillery. Military circles Paris slated last night, however, that Dunkirk has been transformed into an entrenched camp, and is firmly ...

... withdrawn and Allied ships are taking them off. Dunkirk has been turned into a fortified position through which the heroic troops fighting to the last may pass to the open sea. By Our Military Correspondent off Dunkirk. One young officer who witnessed such a ...

... ADMIRAL ABRIAL, under whose command the French Navy is performing new deeds of valour in supplying the fortified camp of Dunkirk in the teeth of terrific enemy aerial attacks. f* ••:•,• : ::: .> v x';;>^il ...

... French Premier, was bitter and scathing. Without any warning to their Allies, the Belgians had opened the way for Germany to Dunkirk. M. Reynaud said: “I have to announce to the French people a grave event. France can no longer reckon on the help of the Belgian ...

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... support. Under the command of Admiral Abrial, with a large number of ships, it is engaged in supplying the fortified camp of Dunkirk and the troops in It in co-operation with land and naval aircraft and are perpetually in action. On the Somme front a sharp ...

... ALL RETURNED “Our fighters have been engaged in offensive patrols over the French coast throughout to-day. “Near Dunkirk this evening a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants engaged large forces of enemy bombers heavily escorted by fighters. “At least ...

... efficiently. The troops are in a perilous position, as presumably the Belgian defection leaves them with only the port of Dunkirk as either source of provisionment or a port of evacuation. That much can done if the latter course should be decided upon ...

... against both countries simultaneously. Probably we shall get the first blow. It is not the fault of the Allied forces around Dunkirk that they have been encircled. They obeyed the orders of the High Command, but there must be no recriminations against France ...

... Nazi Coast Battle IN a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of a large force of German bombers and fighters. This was stated in an Air Ministry communique, which read; “The ...

... Ville are in German hands. “The German Air Force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge, Nieuport, Ostend and Dunkirk, as well the ports and ships in the ports. On the southern front enemy attacks have been repulsed.” ...