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June 18, 1940.

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FISHERMEN'S ARMADA SAILED IN 7 WHO SHAVES

TO THE RESCUE OF THE B.E.F.

Football on Beach Amid Bombs

By STUART YOUNG

THE GREAT RESCUE of the REF. and their rades goes on. Late last night to the shores of Britain who only a few hours before had been in the thick of coast.

In all the tremendous drama of the past four days the eyes and hearts of Britain have been with the fighting men doggedly facing the German hordes; with the Navy and the R.A.F., whose deadly shelling and bombing have given them respite to reach the coast.

Now I want to tell of the other heroes of the great re- treat the flahermen of England who answered the call to save our soldiers.

The first was that of a padre who For the strange armada that has stood amid the heaviest fire helping mode the rescun possible is a Fisher-the wounded. men's Armuda, manned by men whose sons are with the Forces.

I watched the feet growing hour by hour, though I could not, at the time, even telephone the information to London.

"He was as good as any doctor. He was a great fellow, and his smile

was a tonic.'

An officer told this story;

"On May 11, the second day of the invasion of Belgium, we continued

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In their blue jerseys and long sva-pur retreat with the remnants of a boots the fishermen and merchant Belgian division which had been in sallors set out to run the gauntlet of very heavy, fighting; German bombers as calmly as if they were off to the fishing or a plea- sure cruise with holiday-makers aboard.

'PLUCK'

I talked to a few of them yesterday waiting to return to as they were save more men, Some had already crossed the Channel nearly a dozen times but they made light of the ad-

"venture.

They are not men who have much to say,

Most of their brief comments were about the pluck of the B.E.F.

At about 6 o'clock in the evening we were being bombed by 10 Dor- niers when suddenly four Spitfires appeared. They engaged the enemy, and within six minutes brought down four Dorniers. The others dispersed, "One of the Dornlers fell within The few yards of our column, pilot and crew were burned before we reach them. But one of the imachine-guns was minet.

LONDON, June 6. French and Belgian com- came thousands more men, the fighting on the Flanders

"A woman came in, produced a £1 note and pald for refreshments

for the whole party.

Then she collected the names and

telephone numbers of all thase whose parents or relatives were on the phone, and went away tell them that we were safe."

Women of the W.VS. have been working in eight-hour shifts, collect- ing food, making

and tea, and serving them to the troops at open-air canteens.

sandwiches

the

A man in one town gave W.V.S. a cheque for £100 to pro- vide refreshments.

Three

Shifted H. E.

Under

Hail of Bombs

An officer who arrived home after taking part in the evacuation of the Channel ports, said Dunkirk was for several days in danger of being blown up by a single explosion:

"An ammunition ship carrying 900 tons of explo- sives arrived there last Saturday," he said. "It was anchored only 200 yards away from where the ofl stores were blazing furious- ly, but veterans of the last war-men of the pioneer corps calmly proceeded to

ree young women who travel to Londen dally arrived at their station to catch their usual train.

As they

unload it. reached the platform a large

arge batch of soldiers arrived.

The girls put down their attache

took oil their

coats, and got! helping to

feed the men. Six hours later a rallway mon who had seen the girls arrive stop- ped

them and asked them about their jobs in London.

to

"Hang the job," said one of them,

"we're needed more here."

"The German airmen knew what was in that ship. They tried everything they know to hit it, but the veterans kept on with their vital task for a sold 29 hours."

At every station where troop trains have stopped people have gathered out of the train windows, to be to give the men tea and cigarettes picked up and hurried and fruit.

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"The boys are so grateful," said As soon as possible. the B.E.F. one woman. It is enough to make men are being given short leave of

absence, you cry, but they are still smiling

Telegrams to wives and sweet- But they will still be ou active hearts, séribijed" on "the backs of service," "Table" to immediate "TOUGH— "My sergeant dismantled it, and] cigarette packets, have been thrown to Aght again.

took about 700 rounds of ammunition In drums from the plane.

"We continued on our journey, and One said: "When we got there, eventually camped in a wood for the the beach was us crowded as Black- night, where one of the fitters mount- poot on a Bank Holiday. Just as woed the 'German machine-gun on had taken our full load aboard, and a bit over, Jerry spotted us and start- cd bombing,

"But he lads were too pleased to be in a boat to worry. They sang and shouted defiance at the planes.

The skipper of one boal told me how he rescued an R.A.F. man on the way over.

sidecar.

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Two days after this, bombed at dawn by a Heinkel, We had with us a trooper who is a Bey shot. Using the German machine-gun he brought it down.

"When about to embarks, the enemy had been bombing the quayside trying to get our small bost all day. Just at dusk the last German plane brought down one of our fighters.

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Mr. Morrison's words in his broad- "We sent out a motor-cycle to pielej

cond later a bomb went off right he-abourd and brought back to Eng-as a motto by workers on the home front and hours of leisure were side us.

land "If hud not been in the crater 1 Then 1 was told t a destroyer sacrificed. willingly. should have been killed. It is funny which got into difficulties in a bomb that

whose life I saved attack. Her engine-room was dam-Allied war effort by one million rifle-Summary issued yesterday says! the man should have saved mine."

aged, and the ship drifted-helplessly

vast quantity of And now let me tell you more on a treacherous fide until another cartridges and a stories-of-the-men-who have come destroyer-

r-came-alongside-and-lowed shells. back:

of their days' fighting; of their her to an anchorage.

The production curve in the fuse- night without sitep or rest; of the There it was discovered that the shop shows a rocketing increase, hell they have endured on the Fland-bull was holed just above the water is estimated that production wi ers besch.

line,

but,

while the engineers work-shortly be double that at the peak An artilleryman told me that with ed to repair the damage, the enemy, period of 1918-and the result will thousands of others he had spent two

with calising that the ship was helpless have been achieved by employing days among the sand dunes

altneked repeatedly. little food and no shetter from the German dive bombers.

Yet the men still joked, played cards, and even started a football game to keep up their spirits.

He said: "A first, when we saw German 'planes coming over, the men would stop playing football.

"But after a while they got so used to the bombing that they only broke off the game when it was obvious that the planes were molting right for them."

Speaking of the actual fighting, the artilleryman added: "We took plenty nt prisoners. Most of them were between 17 and 20 years old-only

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boys

"They did not seem to have much stomach for their work unless they

When came over en masse. Isolated them into small groups they soon gave in."

'SURRENDER!'

An N.C.O.. by now back at his home in Belfast, described how leaflets were dropped on the Allied troops defending Cainis.

"They said: 'Surrender Calais within an hour," he told me.

"We gave Jerry his Ansiver. It was: No surrender," in the good old British way.

"The Navy were grand. Their deadly fire was a delight to the lads who had been retreating,

"I saw one naval gun score a direct hit

was blown to on a tunk. Emithereens.

"All the time the air was filled with German *planes,

"The live-bombing was nerve shattering; but it needs the bombers and the tanks to bolster up the Ger- man lofuntrymen. ***

"They were mown down. They

No direct hil was scored. Repairs: were accomplished and finally the

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"It's Got To Bo Dono"

Girls between 10 and 30 were mak- ing the eleckwork fuses for anti-

A Royal Artilleryman said that as aircraft shells; assembling fuses as n assembles u. watch he and his comrades were leaving watchmaker France, they were not only bombed, carrying trays of the finished, content, but also came under the fire of long-shining objects like trays of pastries.

Here are some of the employees "Five men, not far from me, were replies to the question, “What do you knocked out by shrapnel," he said. think of Sunday work?" "The buildings on the quayside were

"Horrible-but it's got to be done." "I don'! really mind: I'm not blazing, but our men remained calmly: at their positions to the last.

courting." "We had stayed the night in the No use worrying-I suppose we sand-dunes and early in the morning have to do it."

we saw four British soldiers launchi a folding dingly, get into it, and row off towards England. The last we saw of them, they were far out to sen."

"Well, work's prayer, they say, don't they?"

112-Hour Day

and

An aircraftman told me how he At a small arms factory it was like

BERI had seen some of his comrades shel- every weekday. Every tering with their own bodles refugee boy is putting in a full 11 hours. curly-handled Women and children who were being Outside were parked machine-gunned by low-lying Ger- racing bicycles and sporty motor- bikes. Allotments and back gardens man 'planes..

"The German alrmen were merel- languistied for the hoo. Tuss, he said.

"Before we left our base, we blew

his

A solitary reminder, on a Bren gun up and destroyed everything that bench, of Spring outside was the car- could have been of use to the Ger-nation growing out of a in under the

watchful eye of Harold Stevenson. mans."

Sunday was the only day he could Two warships and a, merchant! ship salted into one port with their devote to his rose-trees. It is

pride when they are in flower to decit decks jammed with men in' khaki.

Some had even managed to bringing specimens. "I shall have to do the length of the Bren gun bench with back souvenira. One had a man-what I can in the garden now before dolin, another had a saxophone.

Others had lost their clothing. One seven in the morning or at night."

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