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Boulogne Harbour, scene of the evacuation of British troops under a rain of bombs, shells and machine-gun fire.
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.
Snipers At Work
He did so, though the erano did not collapso as was expected. It was eventually brought crash- ing down by a few rounds from the destroyer alongside the jetty.
The Naval Eye-Witness, who had been sent to the port on an
While all this was going on the independent mission, described
enemy were all round the docks at in glowing words the truly
a range of about 400 yards, and wonderful behaviour of the
snipers were within 50 yards of troops in the face of an attack
On one occasion a greatly the crane. by greatly superior forces assist detachment of Royal Engincers.
made them- ed by aircraft, tanks and field All the explosives and other superior number
Another small naval party had to be selves scarce on an attack by were searching the docks for any guns, and the no less admirable demolition gear
R.A.F. fighters..
ships that might assist in the courage of the Royal Navy, provided. particularly of the destroyers Embarking in lorries, the com- 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 wore guns or other aid, consequently raised steam in record time by Rushed Acrois
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.
vehicles. armoured
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 cvent 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-
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. is received in
The floating dock was sunk, what time such-and-such a thing ing on the town. Inside the This would aveld the flank being
machinery, power-houses- happened, he could give definite reply.
no harbour, however, there was turned, and would accelerate the and
The "cumparative 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. as come it must.
demolished, and so were another The naval party was landed to
trawler, another crane-any- said, "and there was so much
thing and everything that might going on that we had no time hold the railway station, to fit
The destroyer bringing the be of use to the enemy, the demolition charges, and to
The to look at our watches."
earmark all the bridges, cranes, naval demolition, party had work was necessarily hurried, Anyhow, a demolition party lock-gates, and so on, to be already left under orders. She and in the midst of it the demoli- wes relieved by another, and the tion parties were harassed by a was detailed to be ready to move destroyed when the time came.
second was relieved by a third. dive-bombing and machine gun. when a distressed people watched the at two hours' notice. It consisted
Baptism Of Fire
The naval and military officers attack by 15 enemy aircraft. enemy hordes approach their cityof seamen, Marines, and a small
Some troops were in the rail- conferred, and soon came to the These were the ones put to flight. gutęs. No matter how pressed the
way station when I came under conclusion that the town could by R.A.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 his last. fonemy field guns. The seamen already held the higher ground Further charges were placed Again the threat was delivered with were there, too, fitting the de- commanding the town and har- to make certain of the slulce to their explosive bour, and were massing more gates and bridge. The Germans. violence sufficient to break through tonators a wide front. Parls held Its charges.
troops and guns. Already our were very close, and coming breath as the momentum of the "Some of them were quite troops had been in action, and nearer all the time, attuck brought the enemy closer to
period-the time cannot be the capital than at any time during young men who'd never been had sustained casualties.
under fire," the eye-witness anid, the four years of invasion.
Demolition of all the bridges stated a considerable number 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 partics of the sheds round the railway victor, if the rush carrier him too roof dying around and casualties seamen went out with their station, and-more-were-arriving-- for head or if he exposes himself to some sudden and powerful stroke ecurring. They never turned a parcels of explosives. The every minute.
arrangement.
Fortifying Ourselves
"Be not attal nor dismayed by reason of this multitude. The battle is not yours but God's," sang the poet many hundreds of years ago
That everything is at stake that makes life worth living for free men and women is true. A darker night than ever blackened the sky in the Dark Ages would settle down upon
Europe and its civilisation if Great
Dritain and France were now to fail. We either belleve this and feel it to be true to the core of our being or-we do not,
The peril is there but, at the same time, the way of escape. Hitler, in
spite of his cunning, his dupilcity and fils careful plans of past years, cannot win the victory for he has forgotten
one thing-the valour and the stead- fastness of his foes, their power to endure and their strength to persevere.
The Allied callor, soldiers and air- men have olrendy proved their strength against overwhelming odds. Whether they attack or defend, | advance) or retreat, the same stout heart carries them through: No one
The Allied forces have had to fall back, but they are, we believe, un- beatable by anything the Germans can hurl against them.
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It may be well at this fateful moment when German forces have battered down the very doors of Parls, to recall some of the miracles In the last world war, when the Ger- man advance towards Paris appeared overpowering and when hopes were dwindling so rapidly that many had already decided the battle was definitely lost and that resistance was useless.
It developed into the battle of Rheims.
on
by a during adversary.
hair."
Could Not Be Held
At this
enemy was closing in. Alrendy Evacuation having been de-
Even though Paris has fallen, The officer in charge went off the swing bridges giving access cided upon, two destroyers came Hitier has not conquered France. He to military headquarters to re- to the inner part of the harbour into the harbour and alongside, may enjoy a brief triumph, but it will port his arrival to the Brigadier, were under the fire of machine- and then steamed stern first out. be an empty one. It is well He found all the roads barricaded guns at a range of a few hundred of the narrow entrance with all remember
nber that though formidable, because it
It prepares SU thoroughly with lorries and protected by yards. The explosives were the troops they could eram on. beforehand and makes provision for machineguns.
placed. by the bridges, though board. every calculable chance, the German The Germans were gradually they could not be destroyed until military mind is far from Infallible. closing in on the town with light the last of our troops had with-
Hitler has piled up enormous
masses and reserves of material for mechanised vehicles, followed by drawn.
Tornado Of Fire
Then three more destroyers come- in and alongside. to be fred upon.
his mechanised warfare,-It was our tanks and motorised field guns. Meanwhile, in another part of furiously by enemy Beld-guns con- wishful thinking during the past six Their aircraft were also busy the harbour was a large crane, cealed on a wooded hill to the north years that blinded us to this-but
of the harbour, and overlooking it, these must end. The use of heavy using bombs and machine guns. with a wet dock beside it con- and by a number of pom-poms and 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 throughout the day, and at one might be captured by the enemy, windows of a hotel. The range was both the French and the British High time there were 60 machines in so the officer in charge decided to no more than 800 yards,
Then several enemy heavy tanks. Commands by surprise. These tanks
destroy them, with the power- came down the hill and on to the
are being employed without regard the air overhead.
to losses, since a decisive victory seemed to assure German domination in Europe, the collapse of the British
glutted a victor's loot that ever rapacity,
and French Empiren, and the richest GRIN AND BEAR IT
But determination and a will to win is animating the British and French nations. The German was' always a clumsy blunderer in the field of national psychology. He cannot help showing an insolent contempt of the enemy's point, of} view and has thiced all on a light- ning war and the outright victory which would force the Allies to ac- cept a German peace. He hos un- at the
The "Miracle of the Marne"-80 called because it befell just whenleashed the full brutal fury faith in the capacity of the Ailled armies to turn and beat the enemy had almost been extinguished. Prob ably the fortnight which preceded the Marne was tho. most nerve-racking during the Great War because the British public 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 Allies had but little time to recover from the blow they suffered in Flanders.
German in uniform and is relying on terror as his most effective instrument of victory in his "total" wor,
But the French and British are this mechanised force meeting Inanfully and, in spite of their slow retreat in face of overwhelming. numbers, realisq it must eventually breakt
There is no need for the smallest| discouragement. When our superior resources are rendy the Allies will have superior striking power. It is not the Nazi hordes, but the years and the months that the locust bath enlen, that are our most formidable! enemy. The grim facts of the pre-: sent perit are now known ond,
the fortunately,
Wo opportunities have mined
Our are redeemable. resources are formklablo and unending and each day brings nearer the final thrust which will drive the German menace into total oblivion.
The Miracle of the Marne" was so spectacular as to give the impression that it had been brought about, by supernatural Intervention of somo Providence. Then there were the anxious days of March, 1916-six months before the end-when the full brunt of the German offensive fall upon the British Fifth Army and rolled it back, but never turned, its retreat into a rout though the losses
Every man and women throughout sustained were exceptionally severe,,
On March 28, that same year, the the Empire has one duty to perform
and that is to their exploit Germans, eager to
rebutt with all the success, attacked the Third Army at force of his or her conviction the thought expressed and unexpresser. Arras, but this time they completely falled and many
count that it is possible for Germany to win. historians this defeat as the turning point of It is impossible and Hitler, in the the war. Thờn, to quote one more secret places of his mind; must know Instance, Ludendorft in July, 1910,
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Great Scott! You gave me a scara! I thought my wife had
started spring cleaning!"
foreshore.
The troops, meanwhite, were on the jetty and embarking in the destroyer alongside. Their courage. and bearing were magnificent, even under a tornado of fire with casualties- occurring every second. They were- as steady as though on parade.
But the destroyers had not been: idle, Their 4.7's, 4-inch pom-poms: and machine-guns were in hot action,.. plastering the hillsides and the German fold-guns, in them at point- blonk range and blasting the hotel' opposite until the pom-poms and machine-guns were alienced In: showers of hurting masonry and | shell fragments.
Tank's "Cart-Wheel"
The Arst shot fired at the tanks. missed. The second was a direct hit: which caused one of them to capsizo- and "go spinning over and over like.. a child doing a cart-whee);" as at onlooker said. A third was knocked." out with a direct hit. The others retired with celerity.
If it had not been for the rapid and." accurate fire of those destroyers, and." the bravery of the men manning" their guns in the open, the retiring" troops must hava xustained" for heavier casualtics. Indeed, the evacuation might never have been possible.
"By God!" said one of the more senior military officers, volcing his admiration. "they were absolutely- magnificent."
What the Army thought of the Navy, the sailors also thought of the - soldiers. "They stood. there like- rocks and without giving a damn for - anything,” said one naval officer,
Titose three destroyers cast off ***** "win" rúr lönar" or soldiers of bõard
and wont stern-first | out to @remel through, the narrow-enfrarios. "One key t "Turn""fo:Page:9- Second Colàmn-r.
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