... TO BIRMINGHAM FROM DUNKIRK “HELL” undreds of girls are busy making out new ration cards at this Birmingham depot. ...

... 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 ...

... carried out from Dunkirk and from beaches in ihe vicinity. The whole operation was screened by naval forces against any attempt by the enemy at interference by sea. addition to almost incessant bombing and machine-gun attacks Dunkirk, the beaches and ...

... 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 ...

... BEING TAKEN OFF French Use 100 Warships, Ex-Liners LEAST ANOTHER 100,000 ALLIED— INCLUDING BELGIAN—TROOPS ARE STILL IN THE DUNKIRK AREA. IT IS HOPED TO EVACUATE THEM IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS, SAID THE FRENCH MILITARY SPOKESMAN LAST NIGHT. Mr. Anthony Eden, ...

... ALLIES USE PARACHUTES French air communique reveals munitions and supplies for Allied troops in Dunkirk region dropped by parachute. ...

... R.A.F. MAKE i RECORD “Kill’ INURING Saturday and yesterday our have accounted for 113 Nazi planes battles over the Dunkirk area. Saturday's bag of 78 was a record for a day. of our planes are missing as a result of these action Spitfire squadron alone ...

... led the advance into Belgium and it fought in the rearguard from the furthest front reached by the B.E.F. to the gates of Dunkirk. men,” said the brigadier on stepping ashore in England, never once gave way: they beat back every German attack, and every ...

... of the B.E.F. who told the Birmingham Gazette during the week-end of the retreat across Belgium and the re-embarkation at Dunkirk. Brief, but comprehensive, he said: “We came up against the Germans at Vimy Ridge, and the first day we held them and lost ...

... 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.” ...

... SOLDIERS JT'OUR French soldiers, 21 of whose comrades were murdered in a party by a German parachutist on the beach at • Dunkirk, arrived at a south coast town yesterday. One of them said: We were waiting about on the beach for boat when civilian came ...

... the troops baled out with their steel helmets.” Tragic Irony A survivor of the battle northern France and the bombing of Dunkirk, Private Richard John Draper, aged J 5, of the R.A.M.C., arrived at Usk, Monmouthshire, on Saturday night on nis way home ...