... Warning! EVACUATION OF ALLIED TROOPS FROM THE Dunkirk area goes on steadily —a magnificent achievement and a significant warning if Mussolini reads it aright. Although hemmed in on three sides, our forces have been withdrawn despite the onslaughts of ...

... led the advance into Belgium and it fought in the rearguard from the furthest front reached by the B.E.F. to the gates of Dunkirk. men,” said the brigadier on stepping ashore in England, never once gave way: they beat back every German attack, and every ...

... E. MAYALL W. H. BAILEY conversation lasted an hour. Mayan, who is a tradesman serving in the R.A.S.C., was landed from Dunkirk on Thursday morning. Mrs. Mayan told the Sentinel that her husband, who is 31, had got through without a scratch.' Mr. and Mrs ...

... of the B.E.F. who told the Birmingham Gazette during the week-end of the retreat across Belgium and the re-embarkation at Dunkirk. Brief, but comprehensive, he said: “We came up against the Germans at Vimy Ridge, and the first day we held them and lost ...

... women and children. Many of the women carried babies in their arms and their ranks were raked by machine -gun bullets. At Dunkirk, he said, there Lance-Corpokai. Hunt was a scene of dreadful havoc. Not a house was left unwrecked, oil stores were burning ...

... direct order of the Government—and nothing less, we can be sure, would have moved him —General Lord Gort has come home from Dunkirk. The honour with which the King has so promptly invested him expresses in some measure the tribute which the whole nation ...

... British troops are returning from Dunkirk, expressing his gratitude for the manner in which the troops were cared for by civil volunteers. kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the troops ...

... shells in Dunkirk —have been landed at a south-east coast port and handled and tended as carefuly as anybody's casualties. They have been given cigarettes, water, food, and tea, just as our own boys. These wounded were tended in hospital near Dunkirk by our ...

... Communique Last night's French war communique was in the following terms:— Since the order was given to them to fall back on Dunkirk French and British troops engaged on, three fronts in the region from St: Omer to the neighbourhood of Arras. Valenciennes ...

... Italian preparation, all this may not be anything more than a clever bluff.—Press Association War Special. MARINES' COURAGE AT DUNKIRK Tribute by Gunner Still further evidence of German brutality against refugees was expressed by. a 23-years-old anti-aircraft ...

... here to-day state that, although yesterday was not marked by any important events on land, it was a great day in the air. At Dunkirk, the Germans made no moves of any importance on land, but made furious attempts with their aviation to impede the embarkation ...

... the troops baled out with their steel helmets.” Tragic Irony A survivor of the battle northern France and the bombing of Dunkirk, Private Richard John Draper, aged J 5, of the R.A.M.C., arrived at Usk, Monmouthshire, on Saturday night on nis way home ...