GENERAL BLANCHARD Nortli
... . ALLIED UNITS STILL RESISTING IN CALAIS Military circles in Paris stated last night ...
... . ALLIED UNITS STILL RESISTING IN CALAIS Military circles in Paris stated last night ...
... this resistance . On the coast of Belgium and . Northern France our Air Force again bombed the ports of ZeebruggeOstendand Dunkirk . : In Ostend an ammunition-. dump and a naval depot were set on fire . One transport was badly damaged . During the night ...
... are in German hands . The German air force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge , Nieuport , Ostend , and Dunkirk , as well as the ports and ships in the ports . An enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover . On the southern ...
... Force , and some French divisions . This group of three Armies was commanded by General Blanchard . It was provisioned via Dunkirk . The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west , the Belgian Army in the north . WITHOUT ...
... continued yesterday ( Tuesday ) north-westwards towards ¦ Sf Pol and Montreuil-sur-Mer . The harbour and docks at Ostend , Dunkirk , Calais , Boulogne , and Dieppe were successfully attacked by the German Air Force . In Flanders , the enemy . resisted ...
... the German attack appears to be north of Lille , in the neighbourhood of Menin and Courtrai . Its direction may indicate Dunkirk as its ultimate objective , but presumably its more immediate object would be to isolate the Allied forces in the Lillc-A ...
... however , continue to fight defensively , based on the remaining Channel ports , which might include Zeebrugge , Ostend , Dunkirk and Calais It would then become a question whether this isolated Allied force could maintain itself foi a longer period than ...
... of them I was bombed . Our last night in Holland we were Mmbed . in ZeebruggeBelgiumwe slept through an air raid , and in Dunkirk we , vere bombed again . Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night . At Ostend we watched German ' planes ...
... he captures them : from that moment , the current of their imports is cut off , and , as seaports , they cease to exist . Dunkirk has a good trade , but the other ! : iree Channel ports , Boulogne and Calais ana Ostend , are unimportant as car ^ o iSfiSlS- ...