... from Dunkirk. As intimated by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons on Tuesday, a total of 330,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force and of the French and Belgian Armies, had been evacuated to England through Dunkirk, a ...

... food and ammunition through Amiens were also severed as the Germans swept up the coast to Boulogne and Calais and almost to Dunkirk. Behind the armoured onslaught came German divisions in lorries and behind them came the dull, brute mass of the ordinary ...

... detained a large number of the enemy, and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B.E.F. in its withdrawal on Dunkirk, This action will count among the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army. ...

... added to since the first of this year, With the recent gri struggle in Flanders and the evacuation o’ the B.E.F. through Dunkirk, anxiety was felt for the safety of the Shetland lads from whom it was not possible to receive news. It has now been ascertained ...

... great strength and fury and the main power of their far more numerous Air Force was thrown into the battle or concentrated on Dunkirk. Cannon fire was turned on the beaches by which alone ships could approach or depart. Waves of German bombers cast their bombs ...

... and artillery bombardment. Their refusal to capitulate was of mvaluable assistance to the main body in its withdrawal on Dunkirk, ...