AIR FORCE RECRUITS
FIRST BROADCAST APPEAL IN GERMANY. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. For the first time since the outbreak of the war, all German stations broadcast an appeal to German youth to enlist in the Air Force. ENEMY CLAIMS PROGRESS TOWARDS DUNKIRK. ADMISSION OF TENACIOUS DEFENCE. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) BERLIN, June 2. The High Command announced: “The coastal strip which the British are defending tenaciously has been further reduced from the east. Nieuport and the coast north-westwards are in German hands. Adinkerke and Ghyvelde, six miles from Dunkirk, have been taken. The Germans captured 200 guns from one army alone. Four warships and eleven transports have been sunk and fourteen warships and 38 merchantmen damaged by bombs. Troop concentrations at Dunkirk were effectively bombed. “Our Air Force attacked Marseilles, setting on fire two large merchantmen. The Lyons-Marseilles Railway was damaged by bombs. Enemy air losses yesterday totalled 58 planes. Fifteen German planes are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 6
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160AIR FORCE RECRUITS Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 6
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