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Fortifying Ourselves

who

"Be not afraid nor dismayed by Yeason of this multitude. The baille is not yours but God's," sang the poet many hundreds of years ago when a distressed people watched the enemy hordes approach their city gates. No matter how pressed the Allied forces are they cannot be beaten.

Britain and France were now to fail. We either believe this and feel it to be true to the core of our being or we do noi.

The peril is there but, at the same time, the way of escape. Hier, in spite of his cunning, his duplicily and his careful plats of past years, cannot via the victory for he has forgalic one thing the valour end the slead- fastness of his foes, their power to endure and their strength to

The Naval Eyo-Witness, who had been sent to the port on an Independent mission, described in glowing words the truly wonderful behaviour of the troopa in the face of an attack

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 Önce :: 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 crane- did not collapse as was expected. It was eventually 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 snipers were within 60 yards of On one occasion a greatly the crane. by greatly superior forces assist detachment of Royal Engineers. ed by aircraft, tanks and field All the explosives and other superior number made them-

Another small naval party gear had to be selves scarce on an attack by were searching the docks for any guns, and the no less admirable demolition

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 dificulty 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 Keroga the Rushed Across

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

armoured vehicles. Where so much happened in Boulogne in the forenoon.

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 fleld 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 ftank being happened, he could give no harbour, however, there was turned, and would accelerate the and machinery, power-houses definite reply.

The and the like blown up. "comparative peace" for the time evacuation when the time came, 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 said, "and there was so much

Could Not Be Held trawler, another crane-any---

thing and everything that might going on that we had no time hold the railway station, to ft

the demolition charges, and to The destroyer bringing the be of use to the enemy. The to look at our watches.”.

demolition earmark all the bridges, cranes, naval

party had work was necessarily hurried,. on, to be already left under orders. She and in the midst of it the demoli- Anyhow, a demolition party lock-gates, and so

was 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 at two hours' notice. It consisted

The naval and military officers attack by 15 enemy aircraft. Some troops were in the rail- conferred, and soon came to the These were the ones put to flight way station when I came under conclusion that the town could by R.A.F. fighters. made yet another desperate stroke high-explosive shell fire from not be held. The Germans

of seamen, Marines, and a small

for ahead or, if he exposes himself

is well

to

hair."

*Baptism Of Fire

to their

explosive bour, and were massing more gates and bridge. The Germans troops and guns. Already our were very close, and coming

period-the time

At this.

which was destined to be his last. Jenemy field guns. The seamen already held the higher ground Further charges were placed That everything is at stake that it developed into the battle of Rheims were there, too, fitting the de- commanding the town and har- to make certain of the sluice makes life worth living for free men

Again the threat was delivered with violence sufficient to break through Lonators and women is true. A darker night on a wide front. Paris

held its charges. than ever blackened the sky in the

breath as the momentum of the "Some of them were quite troops had been in action, and nearer all the time. cannot be Dark Ages would settle down upon attack brought the enemy closer to Europe and its civilisation if Great the capital than at any time during young men who'd never been had sustained casualties.

under fire," the eye-witness said. Demolition of all the bridges stated-a considerable number the four years of invasion,

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 victor, if the rush carries him too roof-flying around and casualties geamen went out with their station, and more were arriving

The every minute," to some sudden and powerful stroke occurring. They never turned a parcels of explosives. by a daring adversary.

Evacuation having been de- enemy was closing in. Already Even though Paris has fallen, The officer in charge went off the swing bridges giving access cided upon, two destroyers came Hitler has not conquered France. He to milltary 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 remember that though formidity with lorries and protected by yards,

ble, He found all the roads barricaded guns at a range of a few hundred of the narrow entrance with all because it prepares so thoroughly

The explosives were the troops they could cram 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.

Hitler has piled enormous closing in on the town with light the last of our troops had with Then three more destroyers came masses and reserves of material for mechanised vehicles, followed by drawn. 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

Then several enemy heavy tanks 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.

foreshore. to losses, since n decisive victory seemed to assure German domination

The troops, meanwhile, were on the jetty and embarking in

perseverc.

men

have

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It may be well at this fateful

moment when German-forces have battered down the very doors of Paris, to recall some of the miracles in the last world war, when the Ger- man advance towards Paris appeared overpowering and when hopea were dwindling so rapidly that many had battle Was already decided the definitely lost and that resistance was useless.

The "Miracle of the Marno-so called because it belell just when faith in the capacity of the Allied armies to turn and beat the enemy hud, almost been extinguished. Prob- ably the fortnight which preceded the Mame was the most nerve-racking during the Great War because the Brish 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 me to recover from the blow they suffered in Flanders.

up

and French Empires, and the richest GRIN AND BEAR IT.

In Europe, the collapse of the British loot that ever rapacity.

glutted д victor's

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 un 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 Alies to ac cept a German peace. He has un- leashed the full brutal fury of the Germin 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 manfully and, in spite of their slow overwhelming retreat in face of numbers, reallso it must eventually break.

Our

There is no need for the smallest discouragement. When our superior will resources are ready the Allies have superior striking power. It is The "Miracle of the Marno" was so not the Nazi hordes, but the years and the months that the locust hath spectacular as to give the impression that it had been brought about by eaten, that are our most formidable enemy. The grim facts of the pre- Bome supernatural intervention of

Then there were the sent peril are now known and, Providence.

fortunately, the opportunities WO anxious days of March. 1018-six

have missed are redeemable. months before the end-when the full

resources are formidable and unending brunt of the German offensive fell upon the British Fifth Army and and each day brings nearer the final thrust which will drive the German rölled it back, but never turned its

menace into total oblivion. retreat into a rout though the losses sustained were exceptionally severe. Every man and woman throughout the Empire has one duty to perform On March 28, that same year, the

rebutt with all the Germans, eager to exploit their and that is to success, attacked the Third Army at force of his or her conviction the Arrig but this time they completely thought expressed and unexpressed falled and many historians count that it is possible for Germany to win. this defeat as the turning point of It is impossible and Filtler, in the the war,Then quote one more i secret places of his mind, must know instance, Ladlendorit. In July, 1910, it.

Tornado Of Fire

in and alongside, to be fired upon.

By Lichty destroyer alongside.

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"Great Scott! You gave me a scare! I thought my wife had started spring cleaning!'!

the:

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 idic.

Their 4.7's, 4-inch pom-poms- and machine-guns were in hot action,- plastering the hillsides and the German field-guns in thern at point- blank range; and blasting the hotel' opposite until the pom-poms and machine-guns were silenced in showers of hurtling masoury and shell fragments.

Tank's "Cart-Wheel"

The first shot fired at the tanks missed. The second was a direct hit: which caused one of them to expsize- and "go spinning bver and over like a child doing a cart-wheel," as an 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, havo” sustained for heavier casualties. Indeed, the evacuation might never: have, been possible.

"By God!" said one of the more senior milltary offèers, vòleing 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 domn for | anything,” said one naval officer..

Those three destroyers 'cast 'off' with full Tauls of soldiers on" board. and went stern-first" out to star through the narrow entrance, Turn to Page: 9. Sacond Colume