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... choice only, to retire 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 ...
... more French troops. The embarkation of troops began before dusk last night and continued for hours. As men lined the quay at Dunkirk and marched calmly under shell fire on to the waiting craft, the devastated town was silhouetted by the fires raging everywhere ...
... The following is to-day’s official French communique: On land and sea and in the air, the French and Br itish forces at Dunkirk are continuing in complete solidarity the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. “The enemy ...
... arms of French, British and the remnants of the Belgian forces, the beleaguered flower of our armies has been pouring out of Dunkirk and across the Channel home—tattered, weary but unyielding. This is no defeat; still less is capitulation. It is a great victory ...
... armies in the North, He has paid a far higher toll in men, and possibly in machines of war, even than our beleaguered forces. Dunkirk, like an island dedicated to the undying spirit of valour, still holds out strongly from amid its strategic moats, and may ...
... made clear that the Belgian capitulation came without warning to their French and British Allies, and opened the road to Dunkirk to the enemy, the minds, probably of most us, sought blindly lor some light honour explain this unthinkable surrender. was ...
... and Bonrgville are German hands. “ The German air force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge, Nieuport, and Dunkirk as well the ports and ships ill the ports. An enemy destroyer was hit a bomb between Calais and Dover. “ On the southern front ...
... SOUVENIRS OF HISTORIC BATTLE More French troops from Dunkirk were landed in England to-day. Nearly all of them carried their complete kit and several possessed prized souvenirs of the historic battle. One man brought with him an ignition key. It was all ...