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First Full Story of the Remarkable Evacuation from Dunkirk: Heroic Deeds Revealed MEN REFUSED TO LEAVE WHILE WOUNDED SOLDIERS NURSES REMAINED ON BEACH WITH DOCTORS AND

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.

To-naval-officers who went to evacuate them they said firmly: "There are wounded men with doctors and nurses on the beaches. Take them first. We will cover.

And so to-night a thin long line holds the Dunkirk beaches from

onemy.

Outnumbered by hundreds to one,

they keep up a steady concentrated fire and have done for days. When the Nazis come too close they churge

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 stund to cover the Dun- kirk evacuation.

A naval man said:

"Dunkirk will be the most glorious name in the scrolls of these regl ments. I have never seen such grin courage as in these men. We could not budge em, Bur could the "They kept saying to me: Get these women out of this with the wounded. We are not going before them."

A Contrast

Germans.

Contrast this story of nutchless courage and chivalry with the news 10-day that Nazis alrmen have at tacked two more hospital ships-the Worthing and tire Puris, peace time cross-Channel steainers.

The attack on ile Parts took place In clear weather. The ship was lying in mid-Channel, clearly mark

times.

"The deck boy, aged seventeen,

was killed. Ils was the only life

we lost. The nurses were magnifi-

the

TRIUMPH OF SEA

AND

AIR POWER

-OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE

London, June 4.

The Admiralty issued last night a long communique on the 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 other 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 communique

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Donations to Charitable And Other Causes

The following is a list of subscriptions received to date for credit of the irish War Organisation Fund, Hongkong Branch: 11.12; Previously acknowledged $348,180. M.E... $20; J. D. McClatchie (montity) 83: A. M. Kennedy (monthly; 138; A. Guinness manly) 20; b. a. Tay finonthly) $15; G. Gerrard $10; Mr. and

HM Mackenzie $20; Sale

Slat

MG. II. Piercky in memory of Mrs. 5 Anonym

Kow-

1. 3. Miller 115; Women's Inon Union Church $100: Sale of Stamps 109 Amount collected nt display of

Karden $730: L. Syken 30; Rev. and Mrs. E. Startin $100; T. J. J. Fenwick (monthly) (monthly) 130; $40; E. P. Siraleld

ranges in Mr. and Mrs. 3. T. ingram's

He Blew Up Bridge and Himself

British

It happened while troops were withdrawing from Boulogne.

+

Our soldiers had pushed lorry, laden with explosives, beneath a bridge in order to blow "I up. "KUTTM they could-net-ind

any fuses.

A captain in the Royal En- gineers arrived. He ordered all the troops to get out of the dan- ger zone.

Then he fired his revolver into the explosives and blew himself up will the bridge.

Joseph Prentice $25: D. E. Clark 150; M. W. Wood Imonthly) $50; B. R. Catter (monthly $25; the Staff of Lane Craw- $73: Bain ol (June) ford & Co. Lid. Stamps $192; C.. S. P. Heywood $200 Hongkong Football Referees Arelation $500; Kowloon Dispensary $12.30; V.S.n.C. Working Party $22.70; Mr. and Mrs, C. B. Hall 850; the Ladies of Taikoo Centre $200; the Military Churches $120; Sonie Members of the Staff of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. (April/May) $400: the European Y.M.C.A.. Hockey Club at the Peninsula Hotel 10/4/40 $20.00; tre. { 2000000

Jin-wang $30 19. 0. $100; wok

(monthly) 125; L Tilchard Inndcock

His action led to the German advance being checked, and gave to get the others more time away,

Blair (monthly) 19: Sale of Stamps Cigarettes in Cells

$145. Tein! $550,013,17.

the

The 5. C. M. Post has received following, dompting to the British War organisation Fund in memory of the late

Kowloon Union Churchi, $5,

Mr. J. C. Brown

Supplies Sent

During the course of last week the British War Organisation Fund ship- success of the operation and the ped to England fifteen cases of means of saying thousands of lives. hospital supplies and knitted woollen

The withdrawal was carried out ceniforts, as under: from Dunkirk and from benches in!

Ten cases hospital

ad- supplies

And The Prisoners Get Free Matches

LEWES. LIGHT-UP till lights out the vicinity. The whole operationdressed to the British Red Cross; is the new rule in Lewes was screened by Naval forces against four cases army comforts addressed any illempt by the enemy at inter-lo the Army Comforts Depot; one Gaol. ference by sen.

case navy comforts addressed to the Royal Naval Comforts Depot.

Amongst those cases addressed to

The most extensive and dimeùnt combined operation in naval history has been carried out during the past week.

British, French, and Belgian troops have been brought back safely to nnsi Belgium country from this Northern France in numbers which, when the full story can be told,-wili surprise the world.

comed.

Was

"Most Hazardous"

Purdment

motor

"They mean to make their pocket money go as far as possibic," said..a. warder.

"Most of them carn

rent. They kept their heads and small craft of all types was carried braches slow and dificult. Only from American firms and Individuals | -

ducked ilke veterans when

To Try Again «

enough

to

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 that suddenly told last Thursday volunteers were needed.

One was Mr. Raphnel de Satu, wealthy brother-in-law of Sir John

Ellerman.

He was along 300 volunteers who assembled at the Port of London offices, where the job was explained to them.

of the Royal London Yacht Club,

Swim for It While they were anchored off Dunkirk Mr. de Sola was told to take k-litebout to rescue what was of soldiers aught to be a group showing light on the shore,

Be found, however, that the light was not a signal, but a lamp on a ic:erted

lurry. Germans

tho machine-gunned bach, and Mr. de Sola and his half-

belind dozen companions hid

wing-bont lying on the sind. Then they found their lifeboat feft too heavy 100

Д

Many had no time to go home to change, but Mr. de Sola hurried to his Knightbridge flat and changed into the kit he wears as a menberg and dry by the tide. It was for them to launch, and decked to swim for it.

out They were taken by motor-couch When they were a short way

a south-east coast town,

they heard voices on the beach, and signed on for a month as officers insanı back. They found other life-

the Navy.

and

All were given steel helmets. Again they were told a dangerous Job was ahem, and that any one who wished to withdraw could do

Mr. de Sola's boat was towed be- hind a drifter ncross the Channel.

by They were machine-gunned low-flying German planes, and the radio mast of the drifter was shot [away.

WHEN CHILDREN

OUTGROW THEIR

STRENGTH

With rapidly growing children, nou- When it doesn't the child gets thin, pale, weedy, with no energy or incli- nation for food.

rishment must keep pace with growth.

Many boys and girls at the difficult age owe their success in echoolwork Bod at games to the extra strength and vitality supplied by Horlicks. Get

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they

bout parties had

come

ashire, and ether they managed to launch

stranded bant.

When their work was over, and 10y were back la London, the volunteers were paid off.

Most got a little more than £2, including an extra day's pay in lieu of notice.

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Prisoners are now allowed Thuddition to almost incessant the Army Comforts. Depot are nine to smoke in their cells in bombing and machine-gun attacks on helmets and 24 pullovers, being gifts the evenings tobacco bought

·05 comumunity ed with the Red Cross. She was The withdrawal has been carried Dunkirk, the beaches, and the vessels from the Foreign

Total shipments to date under a new earning scheme. Dunkirk-bound with a party of doc-out in face of Intense and almost operating off then, the port of Dun-Shameen.

hospital supplies, 36 tors and nurses,

continuous air attack, and increasing kirk and the shipping plying to and no 73 cases

They roll their own cigarettes, comforts and 10 cases three

dive-bombers artillery and machine-gun are. fro were under frequent shell fire, cases army

the authorities providing free Sukienly

The success of this operation was This was to some extent checked by navy comforts.

matches and cigarette papers. For extra nourishment, doctors and swooped. The ship was hit three,

only made possible by the close co bombardment of the enemy artillery

American Donations

nurses say there is nothing better by our Naval forces. Naval

than Horlicks. It builds up flesh, bone The crew and the medical party operation of the Allies and of the pest

de-

also protected the The American community In Hong-

the and muscle by providing all there were six voluntary nurses Services, and by never-flagging

the withdrawal. The tong will not hold its usual July 4 took to the boats. The radio oficer terminution and courage of all con-flanks of

an easily digestible form. It replaces all the stayed behind to send out SO Scerned.

enemy was active with submarines celebration this year. Instead, the

essential food slements in torpedo cast will be donated to the British It was undertaken on the British and high-speed signais.

energy children expend on work and been inflicted War Organisation Fund.

play. Through its delicious flavour I was told: "The swine must have side. by several flotillas of destroyers bonts. Losses have picked up the messages. Back carne and a large number of small craft of upon both these forces.-

Normally on America's Indepen- buy half an ounce of tobacco, and by

that children get more good out of the bombers. They dropped seven every description. This force

all their food.. bombs. One lill the davit of a boat rapidly increased, and a total of 222 The operation was rendered more dence Day. a reception is held at the rationing themselves hope to make it Horlicks stimulates the appetite so

Other prisoners spent their earn- British naval vesscis and 665 other cult by shallow water, narrow American Club. Last year 400 people, last a week."

(channels. and

The attended, we were launching.

strong, tides.. A stewardess, the only other British craft and boats took part in situation was such that one mistake

At an Informal meeting of leading ings on sweets,

There are about 220 men in the woman aboard, was blown many the operation. These figures do not in the handling of a ship might have Americans last week it was decided yurds into the sea. We picked her include large numbers of French blocked a vital channel or that part that few Americans would wish to guol, but only half of them get poc- up later.

Naval and merchant ships which of the port of Dunkirk which could

be used. Nor was the weather en-commemorate America's breaking-ket money, as a man has to serve niso played their part.

becoming eligible to benefit under tirely

of the operation. On away from Britain at a time when three months of his sentence before Horlicks to-day at your usual store. favour Magnificent Spirit

The usual contrik ations collected the scheme. The rapid assembly of over 000 two days a fresh north-westerly wind Britain was fighting for her life.

raised a surf which made work at These showed out by volunteers.

on one forenoon did ground ist in Hongkong for the reception will be sought now as donations to the machine-gun bullets came spatter-magnificent and tireless spirit. ing around our boats.

Through the operation of the Small curtail enemy alr activity..

A withdrawal of this nature and B.W.O.F. Ad- "One girl was wounded in the

Craft Registration Order the shoulder. She never murmured.

miralty already had full details of magnitude, carried out in face of

The Intense and almost continuous bir P. Castobade, R. N.); one Fleet Air all available sinail vessels. these attack, is the most hazardous of all Arm tender, H.M.S. Grive (Lleu-

assembly order for the

operations. Its success is a triumph tenant C. E. West, RN.R.); Ave "British planes caire out of the vessels met with instantaneous resof Allied sea and air power in face paddle minesweepers, Brighton K Perrin, a warship pleked

We are builders, yacht clubs, river boatmen which the enemy could bring to bear RN.V.R.). Gracie Fields (Lleutenant

and boat building and hiring Arms

A. C. Weeks, R.N.R.), Waverley going to try again."

Zeebrugge has been blocked by the (Lieutenant S. F. Hammer-Elliott, (Lieu- One of the nurses had been spend-manned their craft with volunteer from air bases close at hand. ing most of her time recently fund-crews and rushed them to the sinking of concrete-filled block-ships. R.N.V.R.), Medway Queen

RNR

Brighton sembly point, although they did not ing Corman wounded,

(Lieutenant A. Stubbs, Crested Among survivors from Dunkirk then know for what purpose they The sea gates of the canal and the tenant A. T. Cook,

demolished. The lock gates have RNR); ont

B. R. who arrived to-day were two mid-were required. They operated suc-lock-working mechanism have been Queen

(Liculeander soldiers, refugees

and a number of the most difficult and dangerous in enemy hands have been rendered Booth,

conditions.

virtually useless. Fuel stocks have Johnston (Chief Skipper L. Lake, German prisoners.

The Admiralty cannot speak too

RN.R.), Thomas Bartlett (Skipper strange sight I saw was a long, i

services of all con-cen destroyed.

G. E. Utting, line of tiny craft sailing highly of the

30 Vassols Lost

L. Simpson. (Chief Skipper B) Thuringia Into harbour. It was led by a flat-cerned. They were essential to the

The losses sustained by our Naval RN.R.), Calvl (Skipper B. D. Spind- bottomed Duten coastal best com

Stella Dorado (Skipper RNR) have becn comparatively lex, manded by an RN.VN offlcer. This

On n Dunkirk bench they set them forces

H-Burgess, RN.R.), Argyllshire his story: "I got into Dunkirk minis charts. Up and blazed away at Nazi air-mail. The loss of H.M. destroyers

Grafton (Commander C. E. C. Robin (Sub-Lieutenant E. G. D. Healey, pinnes. They were blown away when

They brought down two Junkers, son R.N.); Grenade (Commander R. R.N.V.R.). Blackburn Rovers (Skip- bomb partially hit us going over. I got my load, fourteen Tommies, and On their return they were officially C., Boyle, R.N.), and Waiteful (Com-per W. Martin, RNR), and Westella mender R. L. Fisher, RN.) was an (Chief Skipper. A. Gove, B.NR.): guns. *****reprimanded for taking the

three driften, Girl Pamela (Skipper thought, "Well, here goes.'

om-C. Sansom, R.N.R.), Faxion (Skipper "We just had to chance, the and formally congratulated on their nounced on May

Roy H.M. destroyers Basilisk (Com- markmanship. mines. To my horror I found a Another INR man had his mander M. Richmond, IN.); Keith A. M. Lovis, R.N.R.), and Boy

(Skipper E F. Dottman, R.N.R): whole line of small craft following trawler put out of action by hitting (Captain E. L. Berthon, R.N.), and armed boarding vessels, King a derelict in our port.. Before then Havant (Lleutenant-Commander A. two

Durnoll-Nugent, R.N.) F.

Orry (Commander J. Elliott, B.N.R.), have also

and Mona's Isle. (Commander J. He went to a local bank man-been sunk by enemy action.

war IC. Dowding, R.N.R.); one dan-laying Of more

minor, war than 170 nger who owns a yacht. This afternoon he went back to Dun- veneis of 11.M.; Fleet engaged in the buoy-laying] vessel. Comfort (Skip kirk in it. The bank manager was operation 24 been lost. These per J. D. Mair, R.NK); and one tuż,

have:

St. Fagan (Lieutenant-Commander

of

sky and drove the Germans off and on

ponse. Fishermen, yachumen; yacht- of the most powerful air forces Belle (Lieutenant

us up.

L

land rentments, hundreds of French cessfully by day and night under en blocked. The other porta now En..); eight trawlers Folly

WOH

mc.

►

Apparently they thought though

way. not, shells and bombs were falling to make it advisable to keep going. We got here, anyway."

Harbour Usaloss Now!

I heard, too, of two young naval

I

he had shot down is Messerschmit

compriso; --

10.

tw..

his navigating officer. The Navy's demolition squads One Flest minesweeper, H.MSG. II. Warren, R.N.), JM ( arrived back to-day They have Skiplock Lleutenant ComeuanderThe next of kin of all casualties SAME, B. Proudfoot, R.N.); one gunboat are being htötifed, ar detalis-be- cadet officers who slowed away a done their work well,

Dunkirk harbour is blocked H.M.B. Mosquito (Lieutenant AN, come available. couple of Bren guns in a trawler.

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