FINAL PHASE
IN BATTLE OF FLANDERS
ALLIED TROOPS FIGHTING STERNLY.
FURIOUS GERMAN EFFORTS TO STORM LINES.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, June 3. The Germans are concentrating 15 divisions for a final assault on the Dunkirk area, where the last of the British forces are still fighting sternly. French troops are standing shoulder to shoulder with them, sharing the final desperate hours as the Battle of Flanders draws to its end.
Reports from French military circles say that the line is still held, but that the Germans are making furious efforts to storm the fortified zone. Allied planes continue their ceaseless combats overhead, and they are also dropping food and water to troops bivouacked along the Dunkirk sand dunes. The embarkation continues in orderly fashion from the beach, which is constantly under fire from German heavy artillery. The German news agency claims that a British transport fleet off Dunkirk was scattered or destroyed and several divisions were drowned in the Channel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 5
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