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Boulogne: First Full Story
Of The
Told by
a Naval
Eye-Witness
VIVID account by a Naval Eye-Witness
of the evacuation from Boulogne of British troops who, with the enemy closing in on the town, got away in destroyers, is told in air mail despatches arriv- ing in Hongkong,
The Naval Eye-Witness, who had been sent to the port on an. independent mission, described words the truly in glowing wonderful behaviour of the troops. in the face of an attack
Evacuation
Boulogne Harbour, scene of the evacuation of British troops under a rain of bombs, shells and machine-gun fire.
gear had
How Destroyers Fought Tanks as Troops Went Aboard :: Docks and Bridges Blown Up Under Fierce Fire :: Sixty Nazi Planes in Air at Once:
Ships. List Under Weight of Sol diers.
house and pumping station for the dock, without waiting for further orders,
Sniper At Work
He did ao, though the crane did not collapse as was expected.. It was oventually brought crash- ing down by a few rounds from the destroyer alongside the jetty..
While all this was going on the enemy were all round the docks at a range of about 400 yards, and snipera were within 50 yards of
by greatly superior forces assist detachment of Royal Engineers. On one occasion à greatly the crane. ed by aircraft, tanks and field All the explosives and other superior number made them-
Another amall. naval party guns, and the no less admirable demolition
to be selves scarce on an attack by were searching the docks for any
R.A.F. fightera. courage of the Royal Navy, provided.
ships that might assist in the particularly of the destroyers Embarking in lorries, the coni- Owing to the position of the final evacuation. They found. who evacuated the troops in bined party were taken by road Germans all round the town it one small vessel of the drifter circumstances of great difficulty to another port, where they em- had been impossible to send field type in which some stokers. and peril,
barked in a destroyer and were guns or other aid, consequently raised steam in record time by Rushed Across
rushed across the Channel, the troops could not hold out using bits of packing-cases and. reaching the main jetty at indefinitely against the enemy anything combustible they could Where so much happened in Boulogne in the forenoon.
armoured vehicles. Small lay their hands on. less than 24 hours, and event On the way into the harbour parties of Germans soon began The fire from field and followed event in rapid they had seen some French and coming down the streets on the machine-guns continued. So did succession, it is impossible to British destroyers shelling the outskirts of the town.
the bombing. Then came the tell the story in chronological high land to the north, over Accordingly, it was decided to long-expected orders: "Complete sequence. Indeed, when the which enemy tanks and shorten the defended perimeter demolition.” Naval Eye-Witness was asked mechanised troops were advanc- by a slight British withdrawal.. what time such-and-such a thing ing on the town.
The floating dock was sunk, Inside the This would avoid the flank being happened, he could give no harbour, however, there was turned, and would accelerate the and machinery power-houses definite reply.
The: "comparative peace" for the time evacuation when the time came, and the like blown up
hinges of some dock-gates were: "Things were so hectic," he being, though not for very long. us come it must.
demolished, and so were another. The naval party was landed to said, "and there was so much
Could Not Be Hold trawler, another crane--any- - going on that we had no time hold the railway station, to fit
The destroyer bringing the be of use to the enemy.
thing and everything that might "Be not afraid nor dismayed by
the demolition charges, and to̟ to look at our watches."
The reason of this multitude. The battle
earmark all the bridges, cranes, naval demolition party
work was necessarily hurried, Is not yours but God's," sang the
lock-gates, and so on, to be already left under orders. She and in the midst of it the demoll- port many hundreds of years ago
destroyed when the time came. was relieved by another, and the tion parties were harassed by a second was relieved by a third. dive-bombing and machine gun when a distressed people watched the
The naval and military officers attack by 15 enemy aircraft. enemy hordes approach their city
Some troops were in the rail- conferred, and soon came to the These were the ones put to flight. gates. No matter how pressed the
way station when I came under conclusion that the town could by RA.F. fighters. Allied forces are they cannot be
made yet another desperate stroke high-explosive shell fire from not be held. The Germans beaten,
which was destined to be bis last. enemy field guns. The seamen already held the higher ground That everything is at stake that it developed into the battle of Rheims makes life worth living for free men 4gain the threat was delivered with were there, too, fitting the de- commanding the town and har to make certain of the Bluice
tonators to their violence sumcient to break through
explosive bour, and were massing more gates and bridge. The Germans and women is true. A darker night on a wide front. Paris held its charges.
troops and guns. Already our were very close, and coming than ever blackened the sky in the
breath DS the momentum of the
"Some of them were quite troops had been in action, and nearer all the time. At the Dark Ages would settle down upon attack brought the enemy closer to
young men who'd never been had sustained casualties.
period-the time cannot be Europe and its civilisation if Great the capital than at
ony
ume during
under fire," the eye-witness said. Britain and France were now to fail.
the four
Demolition of all the bridges stated-a considerable number of Iravusion. years We either believe this and feel it to
These instances show how fatal the ""They just carried calmly on and important points was de- of our troops were sheltering in lure of initial success may be to the with their jobs with bits of the cided upon, and small parties of the sheds round the railway be true to the core of our being or we
victor, if the rush carries him too roof flying around and casualties seamen went out with their station, and more were arriving do not.
for ahead or if he exposes - himself to some sudden and powerful stroke occurring. They never turned a parcels of explosives. The every minute.
| Fortifying Ourselves
The peril is there but, at the same time, the way of escape. Hiller, in
spite of his cunning, his duplicity and his careful plans of past years, cannot win the victory for he has forgotten one thing-the valour and the stead-
Anyhow, a demolition party was detailed to be ready to move at two hours' notice. It consisted of searmen, Marines, and a small
by a daring adversary,
Even
Беспие
one.
well to
hair,"
Baptism Of Fire
fastness of his foes, their power to beforehand and makes ugh with lorries and protected by yards.
endure and their strength to
persevere.
The Allied callor, soldiers and air- meh hove alrendy proved their strength against overwhelming odds. Whether they attack or defend, advance or retreat, the same-stout heart carries them through. No one fears for their staunchness,
-The Allied forces have had to fall +back, but they are, we believe, un- ♦ beatable by anything the Germans
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It may be well at this fateful moment when German forces have battered down the very' doors Paris, to recall some of the miracles in the last world war, when the Ger- man advance towards Parls appeared overpowering and when hopes were dwindling so rapidly that many had already decided the battle was definitely lost and that resistance was useless.
·
The "Miracle of the Mame" so called 'because it befell just when faith in the capacity of the Allied armies to turn and beat the enemy had almost been extinguished. Prob- ably the fortnight which preceded the Marne was the most nerve-racking during the Great War because the British publle had been given no time to rally from the shock of the dis- illusionment caused by the utter collapse of Joffre's original plan of campaign. To-day the Allles had but little time to recover from the blow they suffered in Flanders.
had
Further charges were placed
enemy was closing in. Already Evacuation having been de- though Paris has tallen, The officer in charge went off the swing bridges giving access cided upon, two destroyers came Hitler has not conquered France. He to military_beadquarters to re- to the inner part of the harbour into the harbour and alongside. may enjoy a brief triumph, but i will port his arrival to the Brigadier, were under the fire of machine- and then steamed stern first out: be on empty remember that though formidable, He found all the roads barricaded guns at a range of a few hundred of the narrow entrance with all because it prepares so
The explosives were the troops they could cram on for machineguns.
placed by the bridges, though board. every calculable chance, the German The Germans were gradually they could not be destroyed. until
Tornado Of Fire milltary mind is far from infallible.
Hitler has
up enormous closing in on the town with light the last of our troops had with- piled
Then three more destroyers cante masses and reserves of material for
for mechanised vehicles, followed by drawn.
in and alongulde, to be fired upon his mechanised warfare, it was our tanks and motorised field guns. wishful thinking during the past six Their aircraft were also busy the harbour was a large crane, of the harbour, and overlooking H Meanwhile, in another part of furlously by enemy field-guns con- cealed on a wooded hill to the north years that blinded us to this but
.... these must end. The use of heavy using bombs and machine guna. with a wet dock beside it con-
and by tanks supported by clouds of bombers Their attacks were intermittent taining a naval trawler. Both machine-guns in the second-storey has been on a scale which has taken both the French and the British High throughout the day, and at one might be captured by the enemy, windows of a hotel. The range was Commands by surprise. These tanks time there were 60 machines in so the officer in charge decided to no more than 800 yards.
destroy them, with the power came down the bill and on to the are being employed without regard the air overhead. lo losses, since decisive victory seemed to assure German domination
10
ת
In Europe, the collapse of the British and French Empires, and the richest loot that
ever
glutted # victor's rapacity.
But determination, and a will to win is animating the British and French nations. The German was always.
clumsy blunderer In the field of national psychology. He cannot help showing an insolent contempt of the enemy's point of view and has staked all on a light- ning war and the outright
victory which would force the Allies to ac cent a German pence. He has
$97- of the leashed the full brutal fury German in uniform and is relying on terror as his most effective Instrument of victory in his "total" war.
But the French and British are this mechanised force meeting mantully and, In spite of their slow retreat in face of overwhelming numbers, realise it must eventually break,
There is no need for the smallest discouragement. When our superlor resources are ready the Allies will have superior striking power. It is not the Nazi hordes, but the years and the months that the locust hath eaten, that are our most formidable enemy. The grim faels of the pre- sent peril are now known and,
the opportunities fortunately, have missed are redeemable. Our resources are formidablɑ and unending and each day brings nearer the final thrusi 'which will drive the German menare into total oblivion.
we
The "Miracle of the Mame" was so spectacular as to give the impression that it had been brought about by some supernatural Intervention of Providence. Then there were the anxious days of March, 1918-six months before the end-when the full brunt of the German offensive fell upon the British Fifth Army and rolled it back, but never turned its retreat into a rout though the losses sustained were exceptionally severe. Every man and woman throughout
On March 20, that same year, tho
the Empire has one duty to perform Germans, enger lo exploit their and that is to rebuli with all the success, attacked the Third Army at force of his or her conviction the Arran but this time, thex completsiz
thought expressed and unexpressed falled and many historians count poss5To for Gérinany to win: this defeat as the turning point of It is impossible and Filtler, in the the war. Then, to quote one more secret places of his mind, must know instance, Ludendor in July, 1910, it
GRIN AND BEAR IT
number of pom-poms and
►
By Lichty destroyer alongside. Their courage
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“Great Scotti. You gave mo'a scare! -I thought my wife had
started spring cleaning!"
Then several enemy heavy tanks
- foreshore
The troops, meanwhile, were on the jetty
and embarking in the
and bearing were magnificent, even under a tornado of fire with casualties occurring every second. They wera as steady as though on parade.
But the destroyers had not been idle. Their 47's. 4-inch pom-poms and machine-guns were in hot action, plastering the hillsides
and the German field-guns in them at point- blank range; and blasting the hotel opposite until the pom-poms and machine-guns were silenced In showers of hurtling masonry and shell fragments.
Tank's "Cart-Whoo!"
The first shot fired at the tanks missed. The second was a direct hit which caused one of them to capsize and "go spinning over and over like a child doing a cart-wheel," as an onlooker said. A third was knocked out with a direct hit. The others relired with celerity.
If it had not been for the repld and accurate fire of those destroyers, and the bravery of the men manning their guns in the open, the retiring troopa mast have mustained for.... heavier casualties. Indeed, tho evacuation might never have been possible.
"By God!" said one of the moro senior military officers, voleing his admiration. they were absolutely magnificerat."
What the Army thought of the Navy, the sallors also thought of the soldiers. "They stood there like rocks and without giving a damn for anything." said one naval officer.
Those three destroyers cart off with full loads of soldiers on board and wont storm-first out to sea through the narrow entrance. Ono Turn to Page 9, Second Column