... 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 ...

... evacuated from Dunkirk after being subjected to 61 air raids in 14 hours as they waited to embark, gave a Birmingham Gazette reporter this eye-witness account yesterday; Some 200 Marines were landed from a British destroyer at Dunkirk just as a formation ...

... FRANCE IS FROUD OF THEM L Right’s French comrlc story of the .battle. It said:— or ...

... 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 ...

... situation was such that one mistake in the handling of a ship might have blocked a vital channel or that part of the port of Dunkirk which could be used. Nor was the weather entirely in favour of the operation. On two days a fresh north-westerly wind raised ...

... phase of their campaign in advance. Nor should they yet be in a strong position, after the exhaustive and exhausting drive to Dunkirk and pther ports, to organise a big thrust in another direction. But speculation is bound to spread about the new big objecUve—an ...

... 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 ...

... .E.F. LOSS OF !EEN SMALL Compromise Settlement K_ Resort for Aliens h our troops have con- In? towards Dunkirk, ' Uriri °t them were able to . the protection of the ih the Force despite the grt j enemy. certain activity on f, re is nothing to report ont ...

... stops football in this country. Why, even on the day when the British Expeditionary Force was fighting the Germans before Dunkirk, we played the semi-finals of our wartime cup.” Others may have different views on whether yesterday’s two matches were an ...

... done their financial bit,” and more, in the past few days. The first place is the port at which so many of the troops from Dunkirk have landed. The entire town rallied to give the men their first change from bully and biscuit for more than a fortnight. ...

... 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 ...