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... 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 ...
... 8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST DUNKIRK AND CALAIS, STILL HELD THE B.E.F. ARE STILL INTACT TOGETHER, AND HAVE WITHDRAWN MILES TOWARDS THE COAST. UP TO LAST NIGHT THE FRENCH STILL HELD CALAIS. DUNKIRK HAS BEEN HEAVILY BOMBED, BUT IS NOT YET DIRECTLY ...
... has broken down. “The British Army, which concentrated in the area of Oixmude. Armenticrcs. Ballleul and Bergues. west of Dunkirk, faring complete destruction our concentric attacks. In swift push through Flanders German forces inarched 'hrough Bruges ...
... 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. ...
... choice only—to retire to the sea and there endeavour to maintain a perimeter of defence under the very noss 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 situation ...
... 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 ...
... Calais was still in Allied i the Allies still held a 30-mile stretch of the Channel to shelling furi: 'y both Calais and Dunkirk. Zeebrugge remains J, Allied hands. V l! ita ry experts agreed to-day that the B.E.F. was pur'tta only course, in view of ...
... critical.” These armies were, however, fighting “murderously and with admirable courage.” French troops were still holding Dunkirk, he said, and French detachments w€re also still inside Calais. French forces have taken three villages south of the Somme ...
... 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 ...