... Warning! EVACUATION OF ALLIED TROOPS FROM THE Dunkirk area goes on steadily —a magnificent achievement and a significant warning if Mussolini reads it aright. Although hemmed in on three sides, our forces have been withdrawn despite the onslaughts of ...

... direction of Bruges to Dunkirk were strongly resisting German attacks on the Yser canal regions, he continued. The French were defending the region between St. Omer and Cassel, where the German push was moving north-iwest towards Dunkirk. The Allies were fighting ...

... Jt'rench Troo JNo. 15,259. Black-Out Time: 9.49 p.m. s Reach the Stron FRIDAY, 31 MAY, 1940. ly-held Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders ...

... importance. Where, then, does air power come in ? To the men who have been transported in their tens of thousands from the Dunkirk beaches to these shores it must have seemed at times that air power was a Nazi monopoly adding immensely to the difficulties ...

... led the advance into Belgium and it fought in the rearguard from the furthest front reached by the B.E.F. to the gates of Dunkirk. men,” said the brigadier on stepping ashore in England, never once gave way: they beat back every German attack, and every ...

... of the B.E.F. who told the Birmingham Gazette during the week-end of the retreat across Belgium and the re-embarkation at Dunkirk. Brief, but comprehensive, he said: “We came up against the Germans at Vimy Ridge, and the first day we held them and lost ...

... which now are fighting for their existence in a narrowing semi-circle whose ends, , happily still our grasp, are Calais and Dunkirk. Since they were pushed forward to Belgium, our soldiers have solved brilliantly problems, on the staff side, as difficult ...

... works in favour of China,” he whose comrades were killed by German said. 1941 China will have parachutist on the beach at Dunkirk, 40,000.000 men in arms. But China is arrived at a South Coast town yesterday, going through very difficult times. With One ...

... contained a large number of the enemy, and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the B.E.F. in its withdrawal on Dunkirk. This action will count among the most heroic deeds in the annals of the British Army.” ...

... FIGHTING OVER DUNKIRK At a forward R.A.F. fighter aerodrom* near the coast a correspondent yesterdav saw the Boulton Paul Defiant squadron which shot down nearly forty enemy planes without loss to themselves on Wednesday take off on patrol over Dunkirk. They ...

... Lille “Next day was taken to a hospital Dunkirk I want to pay tribute to a French surgeon there For two days and nights he worked without a break tending to both French and British wounded When boats arrived at Dunkirk it was not possible to get conveyances ...

... states. Dense fog over the Channel is giving cover to the British in their headlong flight. The last resistance offered around Dunkirk is restricted to a narrow area of a depth of about six miles. Special artillery units of the German Navy have been used in ...