... Abbeville region. Mean% hile the inundations around Dunkirk, Nieuport, and the I ., :er Canal have reached a depth of 20 inches, blocking the advance of German mechanised units seeking to attack Dunkirk, a French military poliesman revealed in Paris la ...

... to-night stated At nightfall yesterday righter aircraft carried out a reconnaissance at a very high altitude in the region of Dunkirk and new over territory occupied by the enemy. On their return flight they kept very low without incident. Two groups of bombing ...

... camp near Dunkirk. ' , Meer who has just returned to : mth lr' Waits of the stunning effect the air bombardment. Although he I, nt through the last war, he points 'lt that it wa s far greater than anyhP could ever imagine. jh. bombing or Dunkirk was Quite' ...

... operations with - throughout to-day. -of- its have been great intensity tamed offensive patrols over the Dunkirk area yesterday. Weather conditions were unfavourable and there was a marked decrease in enemy air activity. One Dornier bomber I shot down ...

... Defiant squadron which shot down nearly 40 enemy 'planes without loss to themselves one day this week take off on patrol over Dunkirk, writes a Press Association Air Correspondent. They were accompanied by Hurricanes. An hour and a-quarter later 1 ' watched ...

... stubpork; clinging to the Flanders hills !It an effort to keep open the path to Sea. The floods immediately north and tout of Dunkirk—now an entrenched amp—have reached such a depth that Lii operations both by infantry and a!otorised units have been brought ...

... Dense fog over the Channel is giving cover to the British in their headlong flight. The last resistance offered around Dunkirk is restricted to a narrow area of a depth of about six miles, the commentary continues. Special artillery units of the German ...

... made. It scarcely seemed possible then, when the majority of the British and French Forces were nearly 60 miles away from Dunkirk, that a :sufficient force could be detached to keep the port in British hands , from attacks on both sides. I believe the ...

... and during two weeks he had not Borst. J. . a night's sleep. After several days' withdrawal the tanks reached the coast at Dunkirk, but were still subject to bombing by the enemy, which continued as *embarkation look place. As the ship put to sea it was ...

... LONDON, Friday. B E.F. men who, only a few hours before, had been dodging in and out of holes on the bomb-pitted sands of Dunkirk to escape salvoes of German bombs added further graphic accounts to those already given when they arrived in London to-day ...