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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
BALKAN EPIC
In some respects the events dramatically pro- ceeding on their course in the Balkans
are dread-
fully familiar: The fero- cities, the falsehoods, the savageries are all the same. Through the fire
and smoke and menda- cities of Nazi warfare, it is not always easy to make a clear picture; but the plan and purpose, at least, are reasonably clear. Another “Dunkerque" on the shores of the Aegean,' Herr Hitler has promised it; and it is well to have that much down in black and white. For now we are to witness the perfor- mance-- which, this time, may be another matter.
There are going to be great losses and may be rtverses but this time. there are going to be no paralyzing disasters fo the spirit and, it may be, i
disasters even upon the ground. For the at- tack has been fully fore 'seen; its probable Shape and power have been fully studied in the light of all
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the lessons taught by its! AT Doummment, The slopes
of Verdun, there is a plan predecessors. This time
conerete stal protecting an open the little neutral is back-trench Traside the Trench ed by a powerful British the undisturbed renams, of
officers and men
เร!
are the
France
and men. I get aboard and WR leave Dunkirk.
we
At 2 pm, off Gravelines, rescue two officers and four sol- slaves. We host the sad and the takes Us down the the famous,¦ Dunkuk and embarked for Eng-¦ emzirent
French coast towards Cap Gris Degment: land
only "Or my regiment.
AC 4 H 1916, fought to the lat
eight | Nez
we are again. man in defence of Verdim
all wounded
! Fred machine-gunhed from the short!. England
and we he fat in the boat 1 get
in the chest. At & p The diary of a young heutenant | wounded
army on the ground, 137th French infantry thoroughly
trained, wh
thoroughly equipped!
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It is one of Frances most PHOV
commanded by a strate- ung wan memorial, for they stand gist of proved ability who they diest their les still of artillery, at native of Boulogne we pass Calais and the Germans
in portion, a symbol of the un Kive, perhaps a elemen insight mieli us from the beach would not have led them superable ping in which they, to the part of the French soldiers JUNE & At 2 am we jock up to that terrain unless hubbornly restled the
one-famught,
i
German in Bie Last fatter day before they
wer betrayed
Wit
man from the sea. AL dawn are in sight of Folkestone, A Belgian boat comes out for 418.
Perhaps the most impressive flory IS that ot a 23 year-old
In the hot day of May 1940, MAY 28 At 5 pm ww at 140 the sort of these meta The new The battery at Poperaghe, but 13786 were entrenched 10 the after two hour, we Jeave south of Dunkirk stemming the Hondsehude, where we again pul peasant soldier hom the North
German advance They knew they
¡ were being serstiged yet with
pands
The primary
CHUSE
of the
have
But from accounts which been given to me by the few sur-
er
By
Margaret Dasnieres
ominous ally, stands ever Douai, Valenciennes, and
Jogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Lille, MAY 29.-At 6 a.m. we set up
for
even
a
Dunkirk Heroes
we
of Frauen.
Reduced To Half
Here is his account of the light- He wrote it himself in sim- ple, peasant French:- -
JEN.
my
1 am a