... DOWN BRITISH AIRMEN SINK ENEMY TORPEDO BOAT The Air Ministry announces:— Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North East Coast of France. Further reports show that during yesterday 56 aircraft were destroyed ...

... SUNDAY Announced by Mr Eden, War Minister, that over 4/sths of the B.E.F. in Flanders had been saved. He spoke of the magnificent conduct of the troops in fighting rearguard battles. Figures issued in London showed that German parachute troops had lost ...

... flu'ng against regardless of cost its flunk men of the R.F.F. and more French troops are still stubbornly clinging to the Flanders hills in an effort to keep open the path to the sea. The floods immediately north and south of Dunkirk—now an entrenched ...

... dynamo room naval base on the south-east coast of England, helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335.000 men of the Allied forces beleaguered in Flanders. The full story of the brilliant naval operations which enabled the B.E.F. to come ...

... Northern France and Flanders. Every tribute was more than justified. The valiant dead shall be mourned while memory lasts. But the nation stiffened its sinews as it read the Prime Minister's solemn reminder : Wars are not won by evacuations. We confront a ...

... crowded station platforms in outer London yesterday to give a rousing welcome to British and French troops back from the Flanders battlefields as their trains steamed through the stations. Kiddies clamoured at, the counters sweet shops near one station ...

... The graphic and msterly account which Mr Mon-hill gave this week of the evaeuation of the British Expeditionary Fosse front Flanders lacked nothing of the gravity of his former statement. and his speech contained hard and heavy tidings. Our losses are estimatisd ...

... French troops in Flanders were forced to fall back towards the coast, where a fierce battle was raging night and day. The retirement was carried out with great skill and daring. Troops not immediately engaged in the fighting were evacuated with the assistance ...

... its ultimate successful evacuation. It was a cminacle of deliverance, and he paid tribute to the valour and perseverance of the Air Force and all conscerned in the operations. Thankfulness at the escape of our army from Flanders must not blind us to the ...

... the Germans have thing divisions—more than 1,000,000 menand almost the whole the armoured divisions of the Reich intj» the Flanders battle against the Allied Army, deprived the defection of King Leopold of about half of its effectiveness. Nevertheless this ...

... CURRENT EVENTS THE evacuation of Dunkirk has been completed. The whole Flanders coast has been left to the enemy. The last of the rearguard, composed of French naval and military forces, was brought away under the nre of German machine-guns circumstance ...

... Angus Patriot. 3rd June 1940. DOING OUR BIT. Sir, —When read of the great exploits our army, navy, and air force the evacuation of Flanders and in other battles it does stir our hearts with pride and makes those at hoijje feel we want do our bit to brin ...