EPIC COURAGE
FRENCHMEN UNFLINCHING GEEAT NAZI LOSSES. (United Pres 6 Association —By Electric t Telegraph.—Copyright.) Eeceived June 10, 12.15 p.m. LONDON, June 9. Tlie correspondent of the London Times with the French forces says the French are fighting with epic courage and tenacity. For four days, in a blazing sun, this Army of citizens has stood up to hell on earth—ceaselessly bombed from the air, assailed by inhuman masses of tanks throwing jets of withering flame eighty yards before them and wave after wave of infantry, and mercilessly shelled by night. Nowhere..have tlis French gone back over fifteen miles. Furthermore, they have inflicted enormous and unthinkable losses on the .Germans. The enormity of the losses among this fanaticised and beastlike generation of Germans is 'perhaps the most fearful aspect of to-day’s bloody battle, says the correspondent. The bombers continue to blast away hundreds of German tanks, and the renowned French “75’s” are firing point-blank. One battery destroyed 25 tanks during the day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 7
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162EPIC COURAGE Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 7
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