... and Dunkirk, the defenders of this vital stretch of coast-line have for some days past been in a parlous position, but a least it could be said that their forces were intact. Now suddenly, and at the decision of one man, trie Belgian King. Dunkirk is left ...

... 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 and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

... ourselves to face the serious consequences of that defection. The capitulation of Belgium opens to the enemy the road to Dunkirk and Ostend, and hems French and British forces in a narrower semicircle from which they must have great difficulty in extricating ...

... Army and the British Army are now fighting alone against the enemy in the .North. M. Reynaud pointed out that the read to Dunkirk—through which the three Allied armies in the North received their supplies—had been opened to the German divisions. French ...