ARMADA OF SHIPS
REACHING ENGLISH PORTS
SOME GERMAN PRISONERS LANDED. THE LATEST ENEMY CLAIMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 3. Since dawn, an armada of ships has been arriving at south-east ports with more members of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops. Two hundred German prisoners were also landed. The embarkation at Dunkirk continues under intense aerial and artillery bombardment. “The German line is only three miles from Dunkirk,” said a British soldier of the latest contingent to arrive. He added: “The French were attacking like mad when I left.” A German High Command communique admitted slow progress at Dunkirk, but claimed the capture of Bergus and of 330,000 Allies during the Flanders fighting. It added that German planes sank a merchantman, two destroyers and one patrol boat and damaged a warship, two destroyers and ten merchantmen. “The Allies,” it states, “lost 59 planes. Fifteen of ours are missing.” The German Press continues to appeal for airmen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 5
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