THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1940:
AMONG THE GRIMMEST DRAMAS OF WAR
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HOW NAVY DID ITS QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
BIT IN BATTLE OF BOULOGNE
London, To-day. How destroyers evacuated British forces from Bou- logne “under hellish fire” was described in detail by a naval éyewitness yesterday.
He explained how a demolition party was sent from Eng-
land to Boulogne at two hours' notice.
Embarking in lorries, a party of seamen and Royal Mar- ines and detachments of Royal Engineers, was taken by destroyer across the Channel reaching the main jetty at Boulogne in the forenoon.
The naval party was landed to hold the railway station, fit demolition charges and earmark bridges, trains, lock gates, etc., etc., which should be destroyed when time came. This de- molition was undertaken at the re quest of the French authorities.
not be destroyed until the last of our troops had withdrawn.
In another part of the harbour was a large train with a wet dock beside it containing a naval trawler. As both might be captured by the enemy, the qfficer in charge decided to de- stroy them together with the power- house and pumping station.
Sniping At 50 Yards
The seamen, some of them quite young who have never been under fire, were in the railway station fitting detonators to their explosive charges when it came under high explosive
While all this was going on, the shell fire from enemy field guns. The enemy were all round the docks at a Germans were gradually closing in range of about 400 yards; snipers on the town with light mechanised were within 50 feet; then came the vehicles followed by tanks and mo- long expected order "complete demoli torised field .guns.
German aircraft | tion” and machinery, powerhouses, were busy using bombs and machine etc., etc., were blown up. guns.
Sixty Bombers
Their attacks were intermittent throughout the day and at one time there were sixty machines overhead.
Owing to the position of the Ger- mans all around the town it had been impossible to send field guns or other assistance.
Anything and everything that might be useful to the enemy were sabotaged. Charges were placed to make certain of the slülçegätes and bridge. Two destroyers came into the harbour and steamed störnfirst out of the narrow entrance with all the troops they could cram aboard.
Three more destroyers entered and were fired on furiously by enemy field Consequently, troops could not hold guns concealed in a wooded hill. Se- out indefinitely against the enemy's veral heavy enemy tanks came dowhill armoured vehicles.
the Small parties of onto
foreshore while troops Germans were already coming down on the jetty were embarking in the streets on the outskirts of the | destroyer.
town and it was decided to shorteri Magnificent Courage
the defending perimeter by a slight British withdrawal.
The destroyer which brought the naval demolition party had already left under orders. She was relieved by another and the second was re-. lieved by a third-
When the decision was reached that the town could not be held by small parties, seamen went out with parcels of explosives which were placed by bridges though they could
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The troops' courage and daring were magnificent even under tornado of fire with "casualties oc- curring every second.
All this time, destroyers? guns were
·în-hot action blasting hillsides and German field guns at point blank. range.
One shot at the tanks roglatered -a direct hit, caused it to capsize and spin over and over like a cartwheel. A second tank was similarly knock- ed out and others speedily retired.
But for the destroyers' rapid and accurate fire, the retiring troops must have sustained far heavier casualties, Indeed the evacuation might have been possible.-Reuter.
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SIMLA, MAY 16.
London, To-day. The Lord Mayor's Fund for
war
A WAVE OF HORROR, COUPLED sick and wounded has now reached WITH DETERMINED RESISTANCE | £1,500,000. The latest contributions AGAINST · · TOTALITARIAN - AG-} include a further £2,000 from the GRESSION, HAS SWEPT OVER Jamalca Wär Assistance Committee INDIA DURING THE PAST FEW bringing their total to £24,500. DAYS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF Reuter. THE PITILESS NAZI ONSLAUGHTS ON THE LOW COUNTRIES.
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