... Channel coast was continued yesterday north-westwards towards St. Pol and Montreuil-sur-Mer. The harbours and docks at Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, and Dieppe were successfully attacked again by the German Air Force. 'In Flanders the enemy resisted toughly ...

... * resistance in area broken down. British - concentrated in Ita eT Armentiercs, Bail^ 11 • cO ,v.J ~ is fad™ £•/» west of Dunkirk, L tC destruction our 11 Lille was reached by coming from east tured. German tro pS west took Armentiere • going onnearßailleul- ...

... B.E.F. DRIVE FOR COAST ench still hold I DUNKIRK 'OIENT FIGHTING ON THE YSER AND NEAR CASSEL &.F. GUARD RETREAT It^ IGHTING WITH INDOMITABLE RESO■\R\ ON ' THE BRITISH AND FRENCH IN THE NORTH ARE MAKING A BID TO DRIVE THEIR WAY L'JOUGH to the coast. IJrth ...

... cover the gap caused by the defection of the Belgians it will afford an easy passage for the German mechanised army to reach Dunkirk, the port on which the Allies are based and through which they are provisioned and supplied, and place the whole of our forces ...

... Belgium, where British and French divisions are fighting in an ever-decreasing semi-circle whose ends are based on Calais and Dunkirk, the two ports that are still in our grasp. The immediate effect of the capitulation of King Leopold and his Belgian army ...

... E.F., 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 1 Army in the north. The ...

... choice only—to retire to the sea and there endeavour to maintain a perimeter of defence under the very noses of enemy bombers. Dunkirk is still held and massed R.A.F. and French 'planes are dropping barrages of bombs to afford protection to the troops. The ...