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First Full Story of the Remarkable Evacuation from Dunkirk: Heroic Deeds Revealed MEN REFUSED TO LEAVE WHILE WOUNDED SOLDIERS REMAINED ON BEACH WITH DOCTORS AND NURSES
By MORLEY RICHARDS
Daily Express Staff Reporter
A SOUTH-EAST COAST TOWN, JUNE 4.
AT ONE TIME, ON THE SHELL AND GUN-SWEPT BEACHES OF DUNKIRK, UNITS OF TWO HISTORIC regimenTS—THE CAMERON HIGHLANDERS AND THE GREEN HOWARDS WERE FREE TO GO. BUT THEY WOULD NOT LEAVE.
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To naval officers who went to evacuate them they said firmly:G. 11. Piercey in memory of Mrs. 'There-are-wounded-men-with-doctors-and-nurses on the beaches. Take them first. We will cover."
H. i tron 15: Women's Guld Kow-
of
And so to-night a thin long line holds the Dunkirk beaches from the hydrangeas in Mr. and Mr. 3. 7. Bagram's
enemy.
Outnumbered by hundreds to one, they keep up a steady concentrated Are and have done for days. When the Nazis come too close they charge
at them with fixed bayonets.
One furious onslaught they made on the enemy drove him back several miles. German casualties were high. The British soldiers expected no quarter and gave none. Theirs is the heroic stand to cover the Dun- kirk evacuation.
A naval man said;
"Dunkirk will be the most glorious name in the scrolls of these regi-
Germans.
ments. I have never seen such grim equrage as in these inen. We could not budge 'em, nor could the "They kept saying to me: Get those vomen out of this with the wounded. We are not going before thein."
A Contrast
thrce
TRIUMPH OF SEA
AND AIR POWER
-OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE
London, June 4.
The following is a list of subscriptions received to date for credit of the British War Organiantion 3
Fund, langkeng Branch: Previously ncknowledged $540,188.12: **M.E.B." $20; 3. D. McClatchie (monthly) $30; A. M. Kennedy (monthly $30; A. Guinness monthly) $20; D. G. Day (monthly) #16: G. Gerrard $10; Mr. and of Stampa IT. M. Mackenzie 20; Balc
$50; Anonymous $50; loon Union Church $100; Sale of Stampa $09; Amount collected at display Farden $130; L. Sykes $20; Rev. and Mr. E. Martin $100; T. J. J. Fenwick (monthly) $40: E. P. Streatfield (monthly) Joseph Prentice $25; D. E, Clark 150; 1. W. Wood (monthly) $50; D. S. Carter nonthly $25; the Staff of Lane CraW- ford & Co. Ltd. (June) $73; Sale of 9. P. Ileywood $200; Stamps $102: G. Hongkong Football Referees Association $300 Kowloon Dispensary $12.30; U.S.R.C. Working Party $22.76: Mr. and Mr. C. M. Ha $30: the Ladies of Talkoo Centre 2300: the Military Churches 120: Some Members of the Staff of Mesars, Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. (April/May) 400: the European Y.M.C.A.. Hockey Club at the Peninsula otel 19/4/40 $20.00;
130 S. O. RI $100; Kwak Hi-wang Richard Handcoek (monthly) #2: D. Stampa Blair (monthly) $10; Sale of $145. Total $556.043.17.
the
following donation to the British War Organisation Fund in memory
BT 4. C. Brown:
the late
The Admiralty issued last night a long communique on the. The s. c. M. Post lins received withdrawal of Allied Forces from Dunkirk, which it describes as "the most extensive and difficult combined operation in naval his- tory." The communique reveals that 222 British naval vessels and 665 ether British craft and boats took part in the operation. Six destroyers and 24 minor war vessels of the Fleet have been lost,
The following is the text of the success communique:-
of the operation and the means of saving thousands of lives.
The withdrawal was carried out from Dunkirk and from beaches in the vicinity. The whole operation was screened by Naval forces against any attempt by the enemy at inter ference by sea.
"Most Hazardous"
Kawtoon Union Church, #. Supplies Sont
He Blew Up Bridge and Himself
British It happened while troops were withdrawing from Boulogne...
Our soldiers had pushed a Jerry. luden with explosives, beneath a bridge in ordef to blow it up. but they could not find any fuses.
A captain in the Royal En- gineers arrived. He ordered all the troops to get out of the dan Ker zone.
Then he fired his revolver into the explosives and blew himself up with the bridge.
His action led to the German advance being cheeked, and gave the others more time to get away,
City Man (Umbrella And All) Helps At Dunkirk
Daily Express Staff Reporter
CITY men still in their black coats and striped trousers- one man had his umbrella with him-helped in the perilous evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk.
They were yachtsmen who were suddenly told last Thursday that' volunteers were needed..
Ellerimon.
Swim for it While they
were anchored off Dunkirk Mr. de Solo was told to take -One was Mr. Raphael de Sola, bis lebont to rescue what was wealthy brother-In-law of Sir John thought to be a group of soldiers
showing a light on the shore.
He found, however, that the light wag not a signal, but a lamp on a deserted furry.
Germans
tho bench, and Mr. de Solu and his half- dozen companions hid behind rowing-bout lying on the sand.
He was among 300 volunteers who assembled at the Port of London offices, where the job was explained to then.
Many had no thne to go home to change, but Mr. de Soln hurried to his Knightridge flat and changed into the kit he wears as a member of the Royal London Yacht Club.
They were taken by motor-coach osesse to a south-east coast town, and signed on for a month as officers in the Navy
Cigarettes in Cells
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British War Organisation Fund ship- Free Matches
During the course of last week the! ped to England fifteen cases of Iospital-supplies and knitted woollen comforts, as under:
LEWES. Ten cases hospital supplies, ad- LIGHT-UP till lights out dressed to the British Red Cross; is the new rule in Lewes four cases army comforts addressed to the Army Comforts Depot: one Gool.. case navy comforts addressed to the Royal Naval Comforts
Depol,
Prisoners are now allowed
They roll their own cigarettes, the authorities providing free matches and cigarette papers.
The most extensive and dimeult Contrast this story of matchless combined operation in naval history courage and chivalry with the news has been carried out during the past to-day that Nazis airmen have at week. tacked two more hospital ships-the British, French, and Belgian troops Worthing und the Paris, peace-have been brought back safely to
from this country time cross-Channel steamers.
and Belgium The attack on the Paris took place Northern France in numbers which,
Amongst those cases addressed to -in-clear weather. The ship was when the full story can be told, will
In addition to almost incessant the Army Comforts Depot are nine to smoke in their cells in iying in mid-Channel, clearly mark-surprise the world.
bombing and machine-gun attacks on helmets and 24 pullovers, being gifts the evenings tobacco bought ed with the Red Cross. She was! The withdrawal has been carried Dunkirk, the beaches, and the vessels from the Foreign community of Dunkirk-bound with a party of doc-fout in face of intense and almost operating off them, the port of Jun- Shameen. Total shipments to date under a new earning scheme. tors and nurses,
continuous air attack, and increasing kirk and the shipping plying to and are 73 casen hospital supplies, 30 comforts and 10 cases Suddenly
dive-bombers artillery and machine-gun fire. fro were under frequent shell Bre. cases army
The success of this operation was This was to some extent cheered by navy comforts. swooped. The ship was hit three
only made possible by the close co-bombardment of the enemy artillery timea.
American Donations The crew and the medical party-operation of the Allies and of the positions by our Naval forces. Naval there were six voluntary nurses Services, and by never-flagging de-boun
bonbardment
also
protected the
The American community in Hong- tool to the boats. The radio officer termination and courage of all con-flanks
of the withdrawal. The krong will not hold its usual July 4 stayed behind to send out SO Si cerno
cerned.
enemy was active with submarines celebration this year. Instead, signals.
It was undertaken on the British and high-speed motor torpedo-cost will be donated to the British warder. I was told: "The swine must have side by several fotillas of destroyers boats. Losses have been inflicted War Organisation Fund.
"Most of them earn enough to plcked up the messages. Buck came and a large number of small craft of jupon both these forces.
Normally on America's Indepen- buy half an ounce of tobneca, and by the bombers. They dropped seven every description. This force wBS
The operation was rendered more bombs. One hit the davit of a boat rapidly increased, and a total of 222
a week." American Club. Last year 400 people lost we were launching.
British naval vessels and 665 other difficult by shallow water, narrow dence Day a reception is held at the rationing themselves hope to make it Other prisoners spent their earn- attended. Autewardess, the only other British craft and boats took part in channels, and strong tides. woman aboard, was blown many the operation. These figures de not situation was such that one mistake
in the handling of a ship might have Americans last week it was decided
At an informal meeting of leading ings on sweets.
There are about 220 men in the yards into the sea. We picked her include large numbers of French Blocked a vital channel or that part that few Americans would wish to gaol, but only half of them get poc up Inter.
Naval and merchant ships which of the port of Dunkirk which could be used. Nor was the weather en-
en-commemorate America's breaking-ket money, as a man has to serve "The deck boy, aged seventeen, also played their part. was killed. His was the only life
becoming eligible to benefit under Magnificent Spirit tirely in favour of the operation. On away from Britain at a time when three months of his sentence before The rapid assembly of over 600 two days a fresh north-westerly wind Britain was fighting for her life.
The usual contributions collected the scheme. raised n surt which made work at when/smail craft of all types was carried fine beachas slow and difficult. Only from American Arms and individuals machine-gun bullets enme spatter-out by volunteers. These showed on one forenoon did ground mist in Hongkong for the reception will
we lost. The nurses were magnif- cent. They kept their heads and ducked 1lko velerons
ing around our boats.
"One girl was wounded in the shoulder. She never murmured.
'To Try Again
magnificent und tireless spirit..
The
"They mean to make their pocket the money go as far as possible," said a
be sought now as donations to the
refugees and a number of the most diMcult and dangerous in enemy hands have been rendered Booth, Rief Skipper Is. Laine,
conditions.
Through the operation of the Small curtail enemy air activity. Croft Registration Order the Ad A withdrawal of this nature and B.V.O.F. miralty already had full details of magnitude, carried out in face of all available small vessels.
The intense and almost continuous air P. Castobade, R. N.); one Fleet Air order for the assembly of these attack, is the most hazardous of all Arm tender, H.M.S. Grive (Lieu- of the vessels met with instantaneous Des operations. "British planes came out
Its success is a triumph tenant C. E. West, RN.R.); Ove sky and drove the Germans off and ponse. Fishermen, yachtsmen, yacht-ot Ailled sea and air power in face paddle mincsweepers, Brighton ach of the most powerful air forces Bello (Lieutenant L. K Perrin, a warship picked us up. We are builders, yacht clubs, river boatmen, which the enemy could bring to bear R.N.V.B.), Gracie Fields (Lieutenant
and boat building and hiring Arms
AC.. going to try again."
Weeks, RN.R), Waverley One of the nurses had been spend-manned their craft with volunteer from air bases close at hand.
Zeebruggo has been blocked by the (Lieutenant S. F. Harmer-Elliott, ing most of her time recently tend-crews and rushed them to the as-sinking of concrete-filled block ships. F.N.V.B.), Medway
Queen (Lieu ing German wounded.
point, although they did not sembly Dunkirk then know for what purpose they The sen gates of the canal and the tenant A. T. Cook, R.N.R); Brighton Stubbs Among survivors from
locit-working mechanism have been Queen
λ. (Lieutenant who arrived to-day were two mid- were required. They operated suc-demolished.
The lock gates have RNR); one minesweeper, Crested land regiments, hundreds of French cessfully by day and night under been blocked. The other parts now Eagle (Lieutenant-Commander B
eight trawlers, Folly soldiers, German prisoners.
The Admiralty connat speak too been destroyed.
virtually useless. Fuel stocks have Johnston A strange sight I saw was a long,
Bervices of all con-
R.N.R.), Thomas Bartlett (Skipper G. E of tiny craft calling highly of the
Ulting, RN. straggling line
30 Versals Last into harbour. It was led by a flat cerned. They were essential to the
(Chief Skipper D. W. bottomed Duten constal boot com-
The losses sustained by our Naval RN.R), Calv! (Skipper B. D. manded by an RN.V.R. officer. This
have been
comparatively ler, R.N.R.), Stella Dorado (Skipper was his story:
"I got Into Dunkirk minus charts. up and blazed away of Nazi air-small. The loss of 11.M. destroyers W. HE Burgess, R.N.R.), Argyllshire Grafton (Commander C. E. C. Robin (Sub-Lieutenant E. G. D. Healey, They were blown away when aplanes.
They brought down two Junkers, son, R.N.), Grenade (Commander R. R.N.V.R.), Blackburn Rovers (Skip- bomb partially hit us going over. 1
(Chief Skipper A. Gove, R.N.R.); got my load, fourteen Tommies, and On their return they were officially C. Boyle, R.N.), and Wakeful (Come per W. Martin, IL.NR.), and Westella reprimanded for taking. the guns, mander R. L. Fisher, RN.) was an-
three drifters, Girl Pamela (Skipper thought, 'Well, here goes."
and formally congratulated on their nouns on
on May 10.
R.N.R.), We Just had to chance thomarkmanship.
H.M. destroyers Basilisk (Com-C. Sansom, mines. To my horrar I found a Another R.N.R. man had his mander M. Richmond, IN.), Keith A M. Lovis, RNR), and Boy fto whole line of small craft following trawler put out of action, by hitting (Captain E. L. Berthon, RN), and (Skipper E. F. Dettman, B...
A derelict in uur port. Before then Havant (Lieutenant-Commander two armed boarding vessels, King "Apparently they thought I knew he had shot down a Messerschmitt.
F. Burnell-Nugent, R.N.) have also Orry (Commander J. Elliott, R.N.R.),
arki Monn's Tale (Commander 3. the way. I did not, but enough He went to a local bank man- been runk by enemy action. shells and bombs were falling to
oger who owns n yacht. This Of more than 170 minor war K. Dowding, R.N.R.); one dun-laying make it advisable to keep going. We
afternoon he went back to Dun- vensola of H.M. Ficet engaged In the buoy-laying] vessel. Comfort (Skip- got here, anyway."
St Fagan kirk in it. The bank manager was operation 24 have been Jost. These por J. D. Mair, R.N.K.); and one tug. (Lieutenant-Commander his navigating officer.
{ comprise; - The Navy's demolition #qunda One Fleet minesweeper, M.Ss. G. 11. Warren, RN.).
have Skipjack (Lieutenant-Commander The next of kin of all casualties F.D. Proudfoot, It.N.); one gunboat, are being informed as details be- H.M.S. Mosquito (Lieutenant A. N. come available:
mo,
Harbour Useless Now
I heard, too, of two young naval -cadet officers who alowed away. couple of Bren guns in a trawler.
On a Dunkirk beach they set them forces
arrived back to-day. They done their work well.
Dunkirk harbour is blocked.
All were given steel helmets Again they were told a dangerous Job was ahend, and that any one. who wished to withdraw could do 50.
Mr. de Sola's boat was towed be- hind a drifter across the Channel.
They were machine-gunned by low-dying German planes, and the radio mast of the dritter was shot uway.
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