TRUCE AT DUNKIRK
EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS
Rec. 10.15 a.m. LONDON, October 4 A truce has started at Dunkirk so that civilians may be evacuated, says Reuters correspondent at Twenty-first Army group headquarters. The truce will last for 60 hours—l 2 hours for the Germans to clear the road leading from the port, 36 hours for civilians to leave via this road, and another 12 hours-for the Germans t<j restore the road to its original mined and demolished state.
The truce started at 6 p.m. yesterday, and the evacuation of 20,000 civilians began at 6 a.m. today, and will end at 6 p.m. tomorrow, when the Germans will begin to remine the road. The truce is due to end at 6 a.m. on Friday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1944, Page 7
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