Evacuation Attempts?

Northern Advocate, 28 May 1940, Page 5

Evacuation Attempts?

The German communique states: “We are continuing attacks in Flanders and Artois. “Northward of Menin we deeply penetrated the enemy position and advanced close to Ypres. “The German Air Force again facilitated the Army's advance and concentrated its activities against the area in which the enemy is hemmed in. “Our planes attacked aerodromes in the vicinity of Paris, roads and raihuays south of Rheims , and destroyed 20 planes on one aerodrome. “The enemy losses yesterday totalled 73 planes. “Our air force also attacked ports on the Eelgo-French coast, and set fire to docks at Dunkirk. “We heavily repulsed attacks by French colonial troops, north-east of Lens, in the Arras sector.

“A German armoured car near Boulogne set fire to an enemy destroyer. “German air attacks against the Channel ports, still in enemy • hands, are foiling British attempts to resctie their hemmed in troops and evacuate them across the Channel. “Fifteen German planes have not returned from operations yesterday. “We landed parachute troops at Narvik.” The communique claims that several Allied warships and transports were damaged by bombs, and adds that Allied planes again carried out indiscriminate bombing of Western Germany. No damage was done. The German High Command claims that speedboats sank a British destroyer during a push towards Ostend, also an Allied submarine off Helder.