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... BLIZZARD OF BOMBS MEN LEFT DUNKIRK THE WORKMAN’S TRIBUTE TRAIN of French and Bel * gian soldiers, looking hot and tired, stopped in a Surrey station. They made a rush for the small buffet, but having only foreign money could not be served. Waiting passengers ...
... 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 ...
... In the Argonne some fairly violent artillery activity by the Germans was followed by patrols, but these too were repulsed. Dunkirk “Like a Fortress” The spokesman said that there was no deterioration of the situation of the French and British armies in ...
... yesterday or last night The fortified area of Dunkirk. around which all the withdrawal operations we,re taking place, was continuing to resist solidly. It is now a kind of fortress, completely surrounded by water stretching for several kilometres like ...
... REARGUARD ACTION IS CONTINUING WITH THE SAME BITTERNESS AROUND DUNKIRK.” The Allied warships are pounding the Nazi hordes with their big guns and the R.A.F. are showering them with high explosive. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending ...
... the Lille region, and fighting fiercely, the Prioux army is slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending southwest and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...
... ALLIES’ STAND AT YSER CANAL 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 ...
... General Prioux. which was'hemmed in near Lille, continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. German artillery is now shelling Dunkirk end the vicinity, so the dangers are worse than ever. Already a considerable part of it has hacked ...
... ONE PENNY ANY THOUSANDS OF BRITISH TROOPS HOME AGAIN FROM FLANDERS lay and Night Evacuation Continues at Dunkirk' ...
... Flood Defences Commenting on the flooding of regions around Dunkirk, French, military circles to-night suggest that several days must elapse before such action becomes effective. The water, it is explained, must have time to soak into the soil before ...
... We Shall Go Back The beaches and sand dunes around Dunkirk have been alive with troops for the past three days—waiting to be evacuated, and being evacuated. At more and more frequei:t intervals German aircraft appear over them and drop bombs and fire ...
... Jt'rench Troo JNo. 15,259. Black-Out Time: 9.49 p.m. s Reach the Stron FRIDAY, 31 MAY, 1940. ly-held Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders ...