EPIC COURAGE
EXHIBITED BY FRENCH TROOPS STOUT RESISTANCE 1 TO ATTACKS BY BOMBERS, FLAME-THROWERS AND INFANTRY. ENEMY SUFFERS ENORMOUS LOSSES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. “The Times” correspondent with the French forces says the French are fighting with epic courage and tenacity. "For four days, in a blazing sun,” he writes, "this army of citizens had stood up to hell on earth—ceaselessly bombed from the air or assailed by inhuman masses of tanks throwing jets of withering flame 80 yards before them, and wave after wave of infantry, and mercilessly shelled by night. “Nowhere have the French gone back over 15 miles. Furthermore, they have inflicted enormous and unthinkable losses on the Germans. The enormity of the losses among this fanaticised, beastlike generation of Germans is perhaps the most fearful aspect of today’s bloody battle. Allied bombers continue ot blast away hundreds of German tanks and the renowned French 75’s are firing point-blank. One battery destroyed 25 tanks during the day.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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