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June 18, 1940.
FISHERMEN'S A ARMADA SAILED TO THE RESCUE OF THE B.E.F. Football on Beach Amid Bombs
By STUART YOUNG
LONDON, June 6.
THE GREAT RESCUE of the RE.F. and their French and Belgian com- rades goes on. Late last night to the shores of Britain. came thousands more men, 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 RAF, 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 fishermen of England who answered the call to save our soldiers.
The first was that of a podre who For the strange armada thot bas made the rescue possible is a Fisher-stood amid the heaviest fire helping
the wounded. men's Armada, manned by men "He was as good as any doctor. whose sons are with the Forces,
I watched the feet growing houre was a great fellow, and a smile
was a tonic.' by hour, though I could not, at the time, even telephone the information to London.
An officer told this story: "On May 11, the second day of the invaalon of Belgium, we continued
In thele blue jerseys und long sea-our retreat with the remnants of a houts the shermen and merchant Belgian division, which had been in sullors set out to run the gauntlet of very heavy fighting. German bombers as culmly as BOMBED they were off to the fishing or a plea- sure cruise with holiday-makers aboard.
'PLUCK'
the fighting on the Flanders
"A woman came in, produced a £1 note and paid for refreshments
far the whole party.
Then she collected the names and
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the
telephone numbers of all those whose phone, and went away to tell them parents or relatives were that we were safe."
Women of the W.VS, have been working
in eight-hour shifts, collect- ing food, making sandwiches and lea, and serving them to the troops at open-air canteens. w.V.S. a cheque for £100 to pro-
'In man one town gave the vide refreshments.
A
Three
London daily, arrived at their station aree young women who travel to to catch their usual train.
As they reached the platform a large batch of soldiers arrived. cases, took off their conts, and gol The girls put down their attache to work helping to feed the men."
Six hours later a railway who had seen the girls arrive stop-| ped them and
them about their
in Jobs
Lo "Hang the job," said one of them, we're needed more here."
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of Bombs
"
An officer who' arrived home after taking part in the evacuation of the Channel ports, said Dunkirk was for several-dayain— 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 oll stores were blazing furious- ly, but veterans of the last war-men of the pioneer corps-calmly proceeded to * unload it.
"The German airmen knew what was in that ship. They tried everything they knew to hit it, but the veterans kept on with their vital task for a solid 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 picited up and hurried
to a post and fruit.
office..
At about 3 o'clock in the evening! we were being bombed by 10 Dore niers when suddenly four Splißres appeared. They engaged the enemy, I talked to a few of them yesterday and within six minutes brought down four Dorniers. The others dispersed. as they were waiting to return to
"One of the Dorniers tell within save more men. Some had already
"The boys are so grateful," said As soon as possible, the BEF. crossed the Channel nearly a dozen
a few yards of our column. The one woman. "It is enough to make men are being given short leave of times but they made light of the ad-Pilot and crew were burned before you cry, but they are still smiling." absence.
we reach them. But one_of_fle Telegrams to wives-and-sweet- „Bulley-will-still be on netive machine-guns was intact.
hearts, scribbled on the backs of service, able to immediate recall- "My sergeant dismantled it, and cigarette packets, have been thrown to fight again. took about 700 rounds of ammunition) in drums from the 'plane.
venture; entre
They are not men who have much to say.
Most of their brief comments were
"We continued on our journey, and about the pluck of the BEF.
One said: "When we got there, eventually camped in a wood for the the beach was as crowded as Black-night, where one of the fitters mount- pool on a Bank Holiday. Just as woed the German machine-gun on had taken our full load aboard, and sidecur. a bit over, Jerry spotted us and start- ed bombing.
"But the lads were too piensed to be in a boat to worry. They sang and shouted deflance at the planes."
The skipper of one boat told me how he rescued an IL.A.F. man on the
way over.
He said: "I saw him in the water, THIS WEEK but I did not know whether he was a speak Jerry, so I yelled, 'Can you English?'
"He shouted book. Of course I can THIS WEEK you fool.
When we went ashore to look for the BEF. men, the rescued airman came with us.
"As
creater
we were passing a
We
were
Two days after this, bombed at dawn by a Heinkel. We had with us a trooper who is a Bisley shot. Using the Geiman machine-gun he brought it down.
enemy
"When hout lo embark, the had been bombing. the quayside trying to get our small beat all day. Just at dusk the last German plane brought down one of our fighters.
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"The British pilet jumped in his parachute and was actually in the air when the German 'plane circled low over the sheds where we were shel- lering. We got in a burst of gun fire and brought him down as all over the country, Britain's war machinery in ordnance ascertained at any of its Agencies and
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The German plane crashed, the factories and munition shops, whirred in ceaseless heard a whistling sound. I pilot in his parachute coming down activity. FORTNIGHTLY don't think I should have realised at about the same time.
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what it was, but the airman pulled "We sent out a motor-cycle to pick Mr. Morrison's words in his brand- me down into the crater, and a se-up the British pitol, whom we took cast, "Go to it, had been adopted STOCK MARKET $15.00, China. Light "Old" at $6.50 cond later a bomb went off right be aboard and brought back to Eng-as a matta by workers on the home side us.
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I saved aftack. Her engine-roam was dam-Allled war effort by one million rite- A single arms factory increased the aged, and the ship drifted helplessly And now let me tell you
vast quantity of stories of the men who have come destroyer came alongside-and-towcd
more on a treacherous tide until another cartridges and a
shells, back; of their days' fighting; of their her to an anchorage, night without sleep or rest; of the
The production curve in the fuse- There it was discovered that the shop shows a rocketing increase. It hell, they
have endured on the Fland-hull was holed just above the water is estimated that production will ers beach.
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 realising that the ship was helpless have been achieved by employing days among the sand dunes with attacked repeatedly.
only two-thirds the staff. little food and no shelter from the Germon dive bombers.
No NO
were
hit was scared. Repairs
started a football ted and finally the
Yet, the men still joked, ployed cards, and even
game
He said: "At irst, when we saw terman planes coming over, the men, would stop playing football.
to keep up their spirits.
"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 making right for them."
Speaking of the actual fighting, the artilleryman added: "We took plenty of prisoners. Most of them were between 17 and 20 years old-only
boys.
They did not seem to have much stomach for their work unless they masse. When we
came
over
en
isolated them into small groups they soon gave in."
'SURRENDER!"
home
An N.C.O.. by now back at his how in Belfast, described leaflets wero dropped on the Allied troops defending Calais.
"They sold: Surrender Calats
within an hour,”” he told me.
"We gave Jerry his answer. 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.
to
"I saw one naval gun score a direct hit on a tank. It was blown smithereetis.
"All the time the air was filled with German planes.
with many troops ор board, steamed at 20 knots British port.
"It's Got To Be Done"..
10 n. Girls between 10 and 30 were mak- Jing the clockwork fuses for anti-
A Royal Artilleryman said that ns atreraft shells; assembling fuses us a he and his cornrades were leaving watchmaker assembles i watch France, they were not only bombed, carrying trays of the finished, conical, but also came under the fire of long-shining objects like trays of pastries,
range guns.
Here are some of the employees'
knocked out by shrapnel," he said. think of Sunday work?"
"Five men, not far from me, were replies to the question, "What do you
The buildings on the quayside were "Horrible but it's got to be done." blazing, but our men remained calmly
"I don't really mind; I'm not at their.
[courting." positions to the "We had stayed the night in the
fast.
sand-dunes and early in the morning have to do 11.
"No use worrying-1 suppose we
we saw four British soldiers launch
soa.
"Well, work's prayer, they say,
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folding dinghy, get into it, and row don't they?" off towards England. The last we of them, they were far out to An aircraftman told me how hel At a small arms factory it was Ike had seen some of his comrades shel-every weekday. Every
mari
and tering with their own bodies refugee boy is putting in a full 111⁄2 hours. women and children who were being Outside were parked curly-handled machine-gunned by low-flying Ger-racing bicycles and sporty motor- man 'planes.
biken. Allotments and back gardens "The Germon airmen were merel-languished for the hoe. less." he said."
"Before we left our base we blew 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 tin under the
watchful eye of Harold Stevenson,
· mans.".
Two warships, and merchant Sunday was the only day he could -his hip sailed into one part with their devote to his rose-trees. It is decks jammed with men in khak
pride when they are in flower to deck
Some had even managed to bring the length of the Bren gun bench with back souvenirs. One had a man fine speelmens. "I shall have to do dolin, another had a saxophone.
what I can in the garden now before
Others had lost their clothing. One seven in the morning or at night." was dressed in pyjamas and an over-
"The dive-bombing Was nerve coat. Another was dressed in Navy; shattering; but it needs the bombers while ducks. and the tanks to bolster up the Ger- man Infantrymen.
A third had no trousers at all The Minister of Mines has asked merely an overcant.. He hnd slippers all ex-miners who are working In
his feet.
Jother industries or are unemployed
"They were mown down. They on advanced in massos, but they had no idea of taking cover."
Telling of his escape, the N.C.O. said that he and a dozen others took to the sen. nt Dunkirk.
A sailor told me that a vessel in to return to the mines so that coal which he had been assisting on the production cun be increased. He Eelgian const had been sunk. Jasked for an even greater effort from
No sooner and he and his com-the mhiers of this country to answer- rades landed then they all volun- the appeal from France for conl. ttered to go back at once. WELCOME HOME ·":
"We swam for a mile. to a small Dutch bont which was drifting. Two men lay dead on the deck from ma- chine-gun fre...
And now another side of the story **We signalled to a hospital ship, story the B.E.F. men want told but a bomb dropped beside itära anore than any account of their own
"Eventually we were taken on heroism jungl boord another hospital ship, and ar It is the story of their welcomo rived back in England in a pair of home again pyjaman hout oven tooth
brush
An onleer said: "Troplo Dave, been grand. A few of us were wait- Two sets of herolmo, ho said, would ing in the buffel-of-e small ralkway remata for ever in his memory.
sintion.
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