... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED Paris, Monday.—Upon tha recommendation of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief the Allied armies. General Blanchard, commander of the armies in the north east, has been awarded tha Grand Cross the Legion of Honour and Ceneral ...

... SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK NAZI COMMUNIQUE ADMISSION To-day's German communique says:—- The attack against Dunkirk from the West, the South, and the East, is slowly making progress. The difficult terrain, which is flooded and trenched by numerous ditches ...

... STILL RESISTING AT DUNKIRK Embarkation of Allied Troops Proceeding NAZIS KEEP UP* BOMBARDMENT TN THE REGION OF DUNKIRK ALLIED TROOPS ARE STILL RESISTING THE UNCEASING ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY WITH ADMIRABLE VIGOUR, DESPITE SEVERE ARTILLERY AND AIR BOMBARDMENT ...

... ground. It is believed that ships of the Allied Navies were shelling areas at the back of Dunkirk. Although machine-gunned, bombed and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently buried the Allied dead. Fighting 16 Days We have ...

... rearguard from the farthest point reached by the B.E.F. to the gates of Dunkirk—a British infantry brigade was embarked from the beach north of Dunkirk yesterday morning. My men, said the brigadier on stepping ashore in England, never once gave way. They ...

... the beach. Carrying his parachute, he walked 15 miles to Dunkirk, got a lift home to Folkestone in paddle steamer, rejoined his squadron, and was out on patrol again the next day. Over the Dunkirk area yesterday aircraft of the Fighter Command have continued ...

... Communique Tells How Heroic Troops Fell Back On Dunkirk MORALE OF OUR~ ARMIES HIGHER THAN EVER DURING Saturday mid yesterday our planes have accounted for Nazi 'planes while defending the re-embarking B.E.F. at Dunkirk. Saturday's bag of 8 was record for a day ...

... over ' the Dunkirk area, .the R.A.F. had destroyed 35 enemy aircraft, and probably further six. Eight of our fighters were missing—(Page 6). Seventy-eight Nazi bombers and fighters were destroyed or severely damaged by the R.A.F. over the Dunkirk beaches ...

... and the final evacuation by the Navy of the men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. He told an Echo reporter how the British forces are being taken out of blazing and bomb-blasted Dunkirk not in battalions, nor yet in companies, but man by man, under the ...

... pals had not then reached Dunkirk. Terrible Hazards Terrible hazards while crossing the Channel were told by Pte. .Leslie Arnold, member of the 44 Citizen machine room staff, who is just back. After retreating 2b miles Dunkirk, he had to wade into the ...

... Minister, has sent the following cable to Mr. Churchill: Every Australian has watched with pride the great feat of the Army at Dunkirk. Its amazing capacity to convert defeat into triumph inspires us, and the holding up of the German arms is of inestimable ...

... fortified town of Bergues. “The whole region round Dunkirk which is still in the hands of the enemy, is under constant and heavy artillery fire. Fighter ’planes and Stuka —dive- continued their attacks on Dunkirk yesterday. They sank two destroyers, one patrol ...