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... trench coasts—and through those ports we shall send fresh army to the aid of our French a ' How long present fighting around Dunkirk will continue I cannot say. but I do know there will be surrender. General Gort and General will withdraw steadily and resolutely ...
... REMARKABLE CAPABILITIES (From Qur Air Correspondent) Twelve Boulton-Paul Defiant fighters shot down 37 German ‘planes over Dunkirk, thus staking the Defiant’s claim to the title “destroyer” above that of the much-vaunted Messerschmitt 110, despite the German ...
... hoped General Weygand would be able to launch big counter-offensive that would have How long the present fighting around Dunkirk will continue I cannot say, but I do know there will be no surrender. General Gort and HOPE FOR A DECISIVE VICTORY. The tali ...
... north-east of Ostend, received from Its King the order to cease fire, thus opening to the enemj the road to Ypres, to Fumes and Dunkirk. *’ Since then our troops under the command of General Blanchard and General Prioux, in close collaboration with the British ...
... Enemy Planes In One Fight Our fighters were engaged in offensive patrols over the French coast throughout yesterday. Near Dunkirk last night a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants engaged large forces of enemy bombers heavily escorted by fighters. At least ...
... 8.E.F., and some French divisions. This group of three armies was commanded by General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the South and in the West, the Belgian Army in the North. The Belgian ...
... sectors between Allied and enemy units which are closely intermingled. Up to last night French units still held out in Calais. Dunkirk has been heavily bombed, but the town is not directly threatened. The official military spokesman said to-day that the Germans ...
... Command to have been taken prisoner, along with other high French officers, two divisions of this heroic army had arrived in Dunkirk last night. Faced with the resistance of the finest body of men the world will ever know, the Germans have been wreaking their ...
... with' unshaken morale, was fiercely battling its way to the coast. French naval forces firmly held the fortified area of Dunkirk open for the retreating troops. In the words of a message from the Kinq to th.• Commander-in-Chief. it is fighting with a ...
... statement that ¢p The following special announcement ! Belgiian defection opened téle door 1 issued by the German High Command | Dunkirk for the Germans 1s described as was broadcast ty the German radio this a *libellous alibi. ‘ afternoon: “ Continuing their ...
... side with the French southern armies. It is important that we should get the vital struggle now taking place in the area of Dunkirk in its right perspective. That struggle will mean, and is meaning, heavy losses of men and material to the Allies, but I am ...
... stretch a Lille to the coftS 1 This area.” > 25 miles wide ,1 German to * Northern Fland are stated to ht* Yser. .. i? * Dunkirk,” 11 o\ ...