STORY OF DUNKIRK
85 Per Cent. Of Effectives
Withdrawn
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, March 6.
The whole story of the Dunkirk evacuation will, it is expected, soon be told In Lord Gort’s dispatches.
Meanwhile, the War Secretary, introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, revealed that in the retirement to the coast the Army succeeded in withdrawing no less than 85 per cent, of its effectives. Captain Margesson added that the transformation effected in one mouth of June was perhaps unequalled in the history of the British Army. By the end of the month practically the whole of the British Expeditionary Force had been reformed and units provided with a minimum of weapons and transports.
The breathing space since Dunkirk, be said, bad been turned to good effect. The wheels of production were now turning faster. Most of the major formations were now comparatively well, equipped.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 11
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