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... FRENCH NAVY HOLDS DUNKIRK Air Forces Continually in Action to Cover Retirement THE great battle in Northern France is approaching its * climax. Fighting incessant rearguard actions against odds, British and French troops are retiring towards the coast ...
... troops are making a fighting withdrawal to the coast of ‘France, Allied naval forces are firmly holding the fortified area of Dunkirk. Yesterday evening British and French units were stQl in possession of a part of Calais. Last night’s French war communique ...
... the Lille region fighting fiercely the Prioux army however, slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magniflcently. The inundations extending rath-west and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...
... Warplane attacks have again been made inside Germany. BIG AIR BATTLE NEAR DUNKIRK 22 Enemy Warplanes Down in One Fight In a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night, a formation of Hurricanes and Deflants shot down 22 of a large ...
... Heninlietard. The raids were so widespread that it impossible at present to give a complete casualty list. Dunkirk Twenty bombs were dropped on Dunkirk killing and wounding several people. When five German aeroplanes attacked a suburb of Abbeville, town of ...
... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy’s hands. The port of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. important events on the southern front. The German air force also attacked aerodromes in the vicinity ...
... warships and troop transports, which were to bring home the remainder of the beaten B-B.F. in the harbour and on the sea Off Dunkirk and Ostend. All branches the services joined in the attack, which was directed against more than 60 ships. Three warships ...
... and east of France arrived in Paris by train to-day in a continuous stream- The contingent came mostly from the Ardennes, Dunkirk. Bethune, Hagebrouck, Lille, and Tourcoing. Well-organised arrangements had been made to receive the refugees and to send ...
... the Order of Merit. Sir Edward Carson was presented with portion of a 17-inch shell, mounted on an oak base, which fell In Dunkirk, within a few yards of thirty Ulstermen belonging to Squadron 15 of the Armoured Cars. The inscription on the shell stated ...
... is only 25 miles wide at its widest point.” German troops advancing in Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the river Yser. ‘‘Dunkirk,” it is claimed, “is now within the range of the German heavy artillery, and its harbour has been ...
... the 0.E.F., and some French divisions. This group at three Amies was commanded by General Blanchard. was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port the south and In the west, the Belgian Amy In the north. No Warning ...
... action opened the road to Dunkirk the Germans the Allied Command has never lost Its coolness for moment. The watchword immediately want OUtl ‘The British and French on The Belgian Army’s task he«n to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the British and ...