... 75 NAZI PLANES DOWN AT DUNKIRK Aerial attacks on Dunkirk yesterday cost the enemy dear. Official figures not available, but Paris estimate of the number of Nara planes brought down is 75. 37 FALL TO ONE SQUADRON A single squadron of 12 British Defiant ...

... R.A.F. Destroy 22 Nazi Planes IN ONE FIGHT Big Battle Near Dunkirk 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. Not one the ...

... sea Falling back from the Lille region and fighting fiercely, the French force is slowly retiring in the direction of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...

... ARMY HACKING ITS WAY OUT Paris, Friday. 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 ...

... only 25 miles wide at its widest point. German troops advancing in northern r landers towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. Dunkirk is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its harbour has been destroyed. ' ...

... is home for a short leave. Captain L'haptl, who is in the Royal Artillery, left Dunkirk the week-end and arrived home yesterday morning. Seven hundred men, said, left Dunkirk at the same time. They were due to sail eight o'clock in the morning, but the ...

... jour fears. As he was nearing Dunkirk with three vans loaded with supplies Mr Brown and his co-workers had to abandon them. Bombers had spotted them, and they dashed for shelter. The canteens were destroyed. arrived in Dunkirk with only his uniform. Mr Brown ...

... warships and troop transports which were to bring home the remainder of the beaten 8.E.F., in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend. All branches of the services joined in the attack which was directed against mora than 60 ships Thrae warships ...

... French communique states; In the north operations are continuing with the same bitterness around the fortified area of Dunkirk. On the Somme and the Aisne there have been some local infantry actions here and there by both sides; between the Aisne ...

... road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied command has never lost its coolness for moment. The watchword immediately went out — The British and French go on fighting. » The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

... surrounded on three sides numerically heavier German forces and subject incessant attack from the air. Behind them, it seems, Dunkirk is the only Channel port not controlled by the enemy, and for the purposes a port it has almost ceased exist. In the limited ...

... surrender contained a large number the enemy and was of ii»- assistance to the main bodv of the i ...