... FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK? Street fighting was reported, to-day, in the Channel port of Dunkirk, according to informed Nazi sources in Berlin, who said that the Belgian capitulation had permitted a very strong break-through on the entire line. The French, ...

... DUNKIRK HEAVLIY BOMBED Authoritative advices received in t'ans state that while the situation on tne .Northern front is not clear, the battle is extremely violent and is marked by deadly combats in most sectors between Allied and enemy units, which are ...

... 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. ...

... thirty miles of the Channel coast. Informed Nazi sources in Berlin said, this morning, that street fighting was reported in Dunkirk after King Leopold’s capitulation had permitted a very strong break-through on the entire line.” Later the German official ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... has broken down. The British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Armentiers Bailleul and Bergues west of Dunkirk, is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. ” In a swift push through Flanders, German forces marched through ...

... 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 ...

... broken down. The British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Ai’mentieres, Bailleul, and Bergues, west of Dunkirk, is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. In a swift push through Flanders, German forces marched through ...