RELENTLESS CHARMED ATTACKS ON DUNKIRK
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, 'To-day.
A French General Staff communique' reports relentless German attacks on French positions around Dunkirk.
The French and British navies are
jointly defending Dunkirk and are pro- tecting the embarkation of troops, as ordered by the High Command:
The enemy le strengthening his positions on the right bank of the Aisne and is tightening contact with our positions west of the Baar. On the night of June 2 and 3 French bombers attacked a large number of enemy airfields and lines of com- munication.-Havas.
Huge Losses
A French military spokesman said yesterday that the Germans seem to be attempting a mass concentration of fire from long range artillery and bombers with the object of demora- lising the defenders of Dunkirk well as the men waiting to be taken
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They are keeping this up spite their huge losses, which, Saturday and Sunday alone, 'planes
amounted to 119 German destroyed or damaged over Dun- kirk.
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In any case, said the spokesman, these tactics are not successful, the troops are used to bombing and even dive bombing. They take shel- ter in the dunes, whose slopes shield them from bomb splinters, while the sand deadens the effects of the bombs. The Germans are also attacking transports off Dunkirk with motor boats which carry one torpedo. These tactics are also meeting 'with little
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LIFE OF MR. BULLITT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day. Further details have been made known of the narrow escape
of Mr. William Bullitt, the United States Ambassa- dor, in yesterday's air raid on Paris.
Mr. Bullitt, it is now disclosed, was lunching with M. Laurent Eynac, the French Air Minister.
When the air raid alarm sounded, Mr. Bullitt and M. Laurent Eynac went into the yard; a few minutes later a bomb fell in the yard and exploded.
A second bomb followed, piercing the roof and falling in the room in which lunch had been taking place. This missile failed to explode.
Neither Mr. Bullitt nor, anybody in the house was hurt. One bomb fell on a military hospital in the suburbs, killing two nurses and injuring several.
A boys' college was also hit but none was injured.-Havas.
CANNONADING OFF · SOUTH COAST (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") London, To-day.
Four houses were damaged by the bombs dropped by a German plane on Ashdown Forest yesterday.
A violent cannonade was heard at several parts of the South of England and off the South Coast shortly after midnight-Havas.
success, and the R.A.F., with bases in England only a few minutes away, by have sunk several, sometimes machine-gun fire.-Reuter.
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London, To-day.
The "Daily Telegraph" remarks that German critics pronounced sadly that the withdrawal from Gallipoll was "a hitherto quite un- attained surprise." What will they find to say of the withdrawal from Dunkirk?
The "News Chronicle" says that now the evacuation of the B.E.F. is almost completed, let us give special thought to the French, who in the coming days must again en- dure the full shock of a German land onslaught. We should count ourselves fortunate to great an ally.--Reuter..
have so
London, To-day.
The papers continue to com- ment on the remarkable exploits of the British naval, military and air forces in the Flanders retreat and the embarkation at 'Dunkirk. "The Times" in a leader recalls that a week has passed since the sudden defection of Leopold struck a chill of apprehension into British and French hearts lest an admittedly grave strategic reverse should develop, into the destruc- tion of an army. Such, an out- come must at the moment have been the expectation of the Ger- the man High Command. That danger should be wholly averted in a week of the fiercest fighting in the history of war is a measure of the feat of arms that has been accomplished. To have regarded the Allied army 'as encircled was the natural mistake of a people whose fighting success is confined to land. Such men-will- regard an army that has been driven back to the coast as rats caught in a En- that isn't how trap. But glishmen think of the sea, and no British army is encircled if the. way to the sea is open or can be forced. While the withdrawal was flowing at full spate, the fleet was engaged in snatching hard- pressed soldiers from under the guns and bombs of the enemy. It was such an armada as can scarce- ly have been assembled for war since the Crusades: From British and French destroyers to barges, wherries, pleasure steamers, mo- tor yachts and even row boats, this motley collection of ships gave a marvellous demonstration not only of trained naval tactics but of the daring and resource native to an island race. Reuter.
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of the offices at the Yacht Club last night. Little damage done, the fire being extinguished by the employees.
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