... Supplies Reaching Dunkirk OSTEND Midddkerke unl, '> Hxmu Armei Laventt ° Warn La '^Lillers Bethune civeridy Bruay logs Houdain Lens Dunkirk is being fortified by French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night ...

... ONE PENNY DUNKIRK FIGHT Behind the message, “ Gentlemen, I thank you,” sent by General Georges, Chief of Staff to General Weygand, to an R.A.F. squadron, is the story of one of the bravest feats of the war. All the bridges over the Meuse near Maastricht ...

... ATTACK A WAY FORCED TO DUNKIRK Paris, Thursday.—The vanguard of General Prioux's army, consisting of two divisions, has blasted its way out of the German trap in Flanders means of a furious tank battle, and has reached Dunkirk, a French military’ authority ...

... Tter rearguard ACTIONS NAVAL FORCES HOLD DUNKIRK PARTLY IN NAZI HANDS: street fighting in lille fi lria cen t courage and in complete order, the B.E.F. is withdrawal from the isolated Northern zone. Strong cti° ns are covering the operation. Last night’s ...

... twenty-five miles wide at its widest point.” German troops advancing in Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. “ Dunkirk,” it was claimed, “is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its harbour has been ...

... fighting is continuing to-night round Ypres and Kemmel. German airmen report that Dunkirk has been burning for three days. It is also stated that there is street fighting in Dunkirk. —The Associated Press. NAZI COMMUNIQUE 4 BRITISH ARMY FACING DESTRUCTION A ...

... com- HI. was defend- V the Scheldt and the Ostend, received ‘b b'y to der to cease fire, k ''rnpo ' enemy the road to \ t 0 Dunkirk. 'iSi l,l d ' lle Coast f'fj roops> under the : era t Blanchard and Vjf'-islj’ close collaboration . y under Lord Gort, in ...

... 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. ...

... ships received direct hits and were heavily damaged. Some of them were immobilised and others set on fire. The sluices in Dunkirk harbour were completely destroyed and the harbour basin has been drained. German fighter planes attacked enemy planes which ...

... have composed half the Allied armies of the North. Remnants of the British and Frenc hforces, he said, are backing towards Dunkirk, while their rearguard is fighting delaying action to permit the bulk of the forces to reach the coast. The main German attack ...

... Belgium. Otherwise every Defiant pilot and gunner returned safely. The Defiants first sighted seven Messerschmitt 109’s over Dunkirk. They immediately attacked and one of the Germans was shot down. Hardly had this fight finished when the British airmen were ...