... Bourbourgville 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 ...

... riddled by German political power, and fear has made its head uncover the left flank of the British Army and imperil the Dunkirk base. An this —twenty-four hours after the B.E.F. had saved the Belgian front against a power drive. ...

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

... Leopold’s action Alli e Dunkirk the 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 British and ...

... always been able use bomb power against these islands, but with a position on the Belgian coast, and one, if secured, between Dunkirk and Boulogne, the long-range guns of shore batteries could operate against the sea line of the Thames estuary. The Straits ...

... decision, he will have last that which he set out to gain. With the enemy now striving to occupy the coast line from Denmark to Dunkirk, the problem of home defence passes to-day from the status of preparation for an eventuality to inclusion in the war zone ...