WAR DIARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 8

WAR DIARY.

MAIN EVENTS OF WEEK. Principal items in the war news over the past week are as follow: May 31.—Evacuation of British and Allied troops from Dunkirk under heavy fire continues. Admiralty announces loss of cruiser Curlew, second cruiser o' war to be lost. French recapture Abbeville. Belgians fighting at 6ix points. June 2.—Four-fifths of B.E.F. safely evacuated from Flanders. Dunkirk and Calais holding out against- severe enemy pressure.' Growing Italian hostility to Allies. R.A.F. establishes new record, bringing down nearly 100 enemy ’planes in one day. June 3.--French standing their groun/J at Dunkirk. Twenty British destroyers lost since war opened. Between 240 and 300 German ’planes raid Paris. America, roused, feeling for Allies grotvs. British take action against Fifth Column activities. Joe Beckett and 8.8. C. official arrested. ’ June 4. —Last- troops leave Dunkirk; 335,000 men saved. Paris raid casualty list grows to 254 killed. 654 injured. .Garages mobilised in Britain in munitions drive, June s.—Great German attack opens on 120 miles sector of Western Front, Paris believed to be objective in this second phase of Sehlieffen Plan to encircle Allied flank. Munition works in several large German cities bombed by R.A.F. with obvious success. June 6. —New stategy against tanks proves effective, successive nests of antitank guns taking toll. Specially equipped corps round up tanks cruising loosely in French territory. German losses in whole campaign estimated at 400,000 to 500,000. French Premier (M. Reynaud) says: “Battle may decide fate of world for hundreds of years.”