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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 3, 1940.
NAZIS PAY HIGH PRICE
600,000 Casualties In 23 Days
By RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED PRESS WAN CORRESPONDINT
PARIS, June 3 (UP).—It is now possible, as the Battle of Flanders draws to a memorable close, to strike a balance sheet which gives an approximate idea of the price Germany has paid for Flanders.
In 23 days, Germany has lost nearly 600,000 men in casualties.
Three-fifths of her total re- serves of heavy tanks have been destroyed;
More than half her light tanks and other armoured mechanical equipment have been lost;
2,000 Planos Lost
The RAF., French, Belgian and Dutch air forces and A.A. divisions have brought down over 2,000 Brst The planes Trench estimates-even place the German losses at 3,000 planes,-or-approximately. Afty ver cent, of Goering's effective first line strength,
Six thousand German pilots and observers have been killed, captured or wounded.
On-the-olher side of the ledger the Allies have lost a considerable quantity of tanks and other equip- MENT" IN "THE" "retreat, fium-Beigtum, and the Germans have captured a few thousand prisoners.
Allled air losses have been But the at a minimum compared with the German
loaves
and, as a result, Ger- many's numerical superiority in the air has been gravely compromised.
Germany's
ny's air losses have been nearly triple her maximum produc- tion capacity for a month.
The Allied air losses have been considerably less than the number of new planes built in French and Britisi factories and, int akition, deliveries of bombers and purnult planes from the United States have been speeded up.
American deliveries were almost double the number scheduled. for May.
THE FIRST NAVY CREATES "SHIELD OF
FIRE" TO PREVENT NAZI DESCENT ON DUNKIRK
CORUNNA
CORUNNA is the capital
of Corunna province in the extrema north -.wost of Spain.
On January 11, 1809, the English troops, under Sir John Moore, who were tak- Ing part in the Pertinsular War, reached Corunna, This was the famous "Retreat to Corunna." The English troops took up a position across the road from Lugo. On January 14, the trans- ports arrived,
The French, under Mar- shal Soult, attacked in an attempt to prevent the em- barkation of the English troops.
They were successfully repulsed in spite of their superior numbers.
Sir John Moore was mort- ally wounded and died short- ly afterwards. He was hastily buried in the ramparts near the sea: a monument in the Jardin de San Carlos was raised by the British Cov ernment to commemorate his death.
When the troops landed in England, half clothed and half shod, their leader's conduct of the campaign. was at first blamed, but his reputation as a general_rests......... solidly upon these facts, that when Napoleon in per- son, having nearly 300,000 men in Spain, had stretched forth his hand to seize Portugal and Andalusia, Moore with 30,000, forced him to withdraw it, and follow him to Corunna, escaping at the same time from his grasp. Certainly a notable achievement.
ROTARY CLUB
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, JUNE 2 (UP).—WELL-INFORMED QUARTERS IN LON- DON CLAIM THAT BETWEEN 75 AND 80 PER CENT, OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND ITS ALLIES, THE FRENCH NORTHERN ARMY AND THE REMNANTS OF THE BELGIAN ARMY HAVE BEEN SNATCHED FROM WHAT. APPEARED 96 HOURS AGO TO BE CERTAIN ANNIHILATION.
The most incredible manoeuvre in military history has been carried out with clock-like precision, almost as if a regular peace-time ferry service were in operation between Dunkirk and English ports.
All Kinds of Craft
Every conceivable kind of craft has been used-dirty little oilers, pleasure steamers, barges, fishing boats, river tramps and even motor launches crossing the Channel under intensely fierce German air and long-range artillery opposition.
Ralph Heinzen's Graphic Story
By RALPH HEINZEN, United Press War Correspondent PARIS, June 2 (UP).-Even the arrival of fifteen fresh German divisions to-day could not break the indomitable defence of Dunkirk to-day.
The fiery courage of the handful of remaining British-and-French soldiers is now aided by two allies.
Flood-waters from the breached locks of the Yser River are pro- tecting the defenders of Dunkirk on two flanks.
"Suicide" Rearguard
The men ashore have been literally scooped up in handfuls from the beaches and from the surf. In tens of thousands they are being dumped at British ports while the Allied navies and the Royal Air Force have plas-
Many technicians insist that the ing of the Rotary Club will be Mr. tered the hills of Flanders in order to create a shield of fire behind which
Allics will have attained numerical
equailty with Germany by the end of July. After that, they any, the Allies will speedily widen the mor-
gin In their favour.
The speaker at to-morrow's meet- Owen F. Joonson, who will show
two further films of the trans- the Allied "suicide” rear-guard is holding off overwhelming divisions of
Pacific crossing by Clipper, entitled
Philippines by Air," and "Across Germans from the jumping-off points
the China Seas."
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ĮARMADA OF SHIPS TO RESCUE
Mussed artillery fire from shore and from warships off-shore have created a barrage of shells along the remaining twelve miles of roads around the scaport.
Back and forth between Dunkirk, Dover and other British ports, an armada of every conceivable type of vessel-even the old paddle-wheel excursion steamers have joined in the rescue evacuate the operations-has ferried by day and by night to British, French, Belgian and Dutch armies. THE SECOND CORUNNA
The operation has succeeded beyond the most optimistic dreams of General-Weygand and the British General Stuff--
an-
Already the defence Dunkirk has been written in history as "the second Corunna", because it parallels Sir John Moore's famous stand at that Spanish port in January, 1809 with other British Expeditionary Force, after a terrible retreat in mid-winter over the snowbound mountains of Galicia.
German pressure on the be- but kept their guns pounding at the sicged camp at Dunkirk has massed German formations held back lessened greatly to day, despite beyond the 12-mile are around the the arrival of 15-fresh-German- divisions, and despite the mass- ing of long-range artillery near the Flanders hills.
Artillery Rakes Beaches With this artillery the Germans ars raking the beaches around Dunkirk In search of the Allled troops maased
In
senport.
French sources to-night stated that the German forces pounding at Dun- kirk ere "fabulous" in both men and
materials.
To Tell Roosevelt SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPĤ” PARIS, June 2 (UP).-A survivor of the "Flanders Hell" is en route to Washington by Cilpper plane to give the sandl dunes, still patiently President Roosevelt Arst-hand in- awalling their turn to board the formation of the events in Belgium. terry fleet.
He Captain Count Rene de Half a million fresh German troops Chambrun. Count de Chambrun was thrown into the closing phase of the evacuated to Paris from Dunkirk and Battle of Flanders failed to prevent has been appointed Assistant Mill- General Blanchord from despatching tory Attache to the French Embassy tens of thousands of men to England in Washington. He has been to-day and by nightfall a large part trusted with a special Mission by M. of the Allied armies of the north had Reynaud and General Weygand, who already reached safety across the to-day made a secret inspection of the
Allied front along the Somine. Dunkirk is still being held because Shortly after his return from the General Privex's armoured divisions tour of inspection the French which broke through the Nazi cordon Premier, in a radio broadcast to the "I am ex- near Liege are still battling their way American people, said:
tremely well towards the const.
satiated with Several small units of this army strength of our main defences." arrived to-day.
M. Reynaud thanked the American Incople for their humanitarlon aid,
Channel.
Fronch Escaping
The Frenchmen are güting their way to the const in small squares composed of tanks inside which the infantryment and their supply columns are sheltered.
Repeated German attempts are made to break their squares but each nitempi is repulsed and the cumbersome bodies of meu employing 10 type of defence which shattered Napoleon at Waterloo over a century ago-aro gradually drawing nearer to Dun- kick.
Only one of General' Pioux's armoured divisions is unaccounted for and there is still no news of the General himself.
It is generally admitted that he will be with the rearguard of his retreating forces if he has escaped capture.. His capture, although claimed by the Germans, is not om- clally confirmed and the French ligh Command still belleves that the heroic General will get back to safety.
Planes Scroon Operations
· Allied planes continued to-day to Bergen the evacuation from Dunkirk bul greater, aid came from the Allied navies, which hot only patrolled 40 miles of open water in the Channel,
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BOMBS FALL IN NORFOLK
LONDON, June 2 (Reuter)Tho Air Ministry announced that early on Sunday an unidentified aircraft, pasie; ed over Nortalk.
Twa bombat from Fit: country.
Allied Pressure
In Norway
LONDON, June Norwegian communiqyas day slites that the