BRITISH TROOPS
ABOUT HALF NOW BACK IN ENGLAND.
LOSSES LIGHTER THAN WAS FEARED.
(Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 31
About half the British Expeditionary Force thus far has returned to England, according to the British United Press Association. Seven transports docked within half an hour at one reception port. The B.E.F. losses may still be high, but much lighter than was at first thought possible. The percentage of wounded men arriving is becoming less. MORE MEN ARRIVING WAITING TROOPS DIG IN ON BEACH. DURING EMBARKATION OF WOUNDED. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 31. The heroes from Flanders still are returning. Those who could walk and swim dug themselves in on the sand beach and waited for hours, under a murderous aerial bombardment, until the bulk of their disabled comrades had embarked. The difficulties of the evacuation have increased hourly. Many transports were bombed both on the outward and homeward journeys. German artillcr.• is now shelling Dunkirk, but the men say they are confident their comrades are still maintaining a gallant rearguard action and will get away under the screen of the Allied navies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 5
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