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GERMAN EFFORTS SLACKEN AT DUNKIRK STORY OF BESTIAL FEROCITY. MEN IN BOAT ATTACKED WITH BLAZING PETROL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. Men evacuated today report a decrease in German dive-bombing attacks on Dunkirk. One boat loaded with French soldiers was aground for several hours, offering a perfect target for German bombers, but none appearedl. A young Frenchwoman arrived alone among a crowd of French soldiers landed today. Her coat was torn by shrapnel. She said that not a building was standing in Dunkirk or in Malo les Baines, near Dunkirk. Civilians were living in cellars. The streets were littered with dead bodies, which could not be removed. A thousand small incendiary bombs caused the chief destruction.
Meanwhile examples of German ruthlessness are pouring in. A noncom described a devilish attack on 20 soldiers attempting to escape in a large rowing boat from Dunkirk. German airmen first futilely bombed the boat and then unsuccessfully machine-gun-ned it. Then they dropped petrol into which they fired tracer bullets. The boat was ablaze immediately, and there was no escape for the occupants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 6
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