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... Up to Tuesday night French units still held out in Calais. BATTLE OFF DUNKIRK Hurricanes And Defiants Rout Enemy Aircraft In a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night, formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of a large ...
... Lille region and fighting fiercely, the Prioux Army is however, slowly retiring in the direction the entienched camp of Dunkirk Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations, extending south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp, are ...
... October 13, 1914, and the Germans never came near it again during that war. They bombarded Dunkirk with a 16- inch gun from a range of more'than 20 miles. Dunkirk was bombed from the air also. At Nieuport our naval guns were only a few yards from the Germans ...
... surrendered to the Germans in accordance with King Leopold's decision. Although King Leopold's action opened the road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied Command has never lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediately went out: The British ...
... a fierce attack. Paris military circles last night stated that French troops are firmly holding the four ports of Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend, and Zeebrugge. MORE GREAT EXPLOITS BY THE R.A.F. PARIS, Sunday yyHILE operations show a very slight ■ calming down ...
... ENSURING SAFETY FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. ■ WITH the Navy sharing the; * onerous task of defending Dunkirk and the neighbouring coast; against the German hordes, fresh proof is given of the adaptability and resourcefulness of that sure shield which has made ...
... civilian centres. The tale is still incomplete, but it i* known that among the places attacked were Bethune, Choques, Lens, Dunkirk, Nancy. Hazelbrouck, Calais. Abbeville, Doulens. and Albert. Numerous civilian casualties are known to have occurred, although ...
... from Saint Omer'that is to say, on the flank of the German motorized troops which attacked Calais and attempted approach Dunkirk. NETWORK OF CANALS. All Allied progress towards the southwest in this region could not fail to produce a repercussion on the ...
... night. At daylight, when hauled up our anchor and steamed along the French coast, saw four bombs drop from a 'plane near Dunkirk Pier. Ten miles west-south-west of Cape Grisnez we passed floating mine. For the rest the passage had good weather. FOOD RUSHED ...