TRUCE EXTENDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 7

TRUCE EXTENDED

POSITION AT DUNKIRK

11,000 CIVILIANS EVACUATED ■- ~ , LONDON. Oct. 5. v Tbe Dunkirk . truce has been extended for. four hours to 10 a.m. tomo,rrow, says.Reuter’s correspondent at Twenty-first Army Group Headquar--,4Th.e Germans apparently found difficulty m lifting mines and repairing bridges .on the roads by which the evacuees are leaving the city, and therefore they have been granted additional time To enable them again to blow up the bridges and relay the mines.

.Eleven thousand civilians left Dunkirk before ,noon to-day, and 4000 more are expected: “ " The Daily Express correspondent near Dunkirk says only the width of the tarmac road over which the long string of rain-drenched evacuees is moving divides the British and German outposts. ' On the left-hand side are rtour men from . British units serving with the Canadians, and opposite are four Germans.

. A British major supervising the truce told the Germans: “We must see that every civilian goes. There will be a terrible bombardment after this.”; . The refugees scarcely looked at the Germans, but all waved to the British soldiers. The children seemed reasonably well, but old women, sagging under .the weight of heavy bundles, looked pathetic. One said: “Monsieur. 1 pray you don’t take any prisoners in Dunkirk." and she looked daggers at the four Germans.