GALLANT DEFENCE OF CALAIS
(Received June 26, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. Appallingly ill-supplied with munitions, food and water, 4000 men held Calais for four days, fighting and moving ceaselessly and without sleep. The men did not know that they were saving the British Expeditionary Force, but it is a fact that they held two German armoured divisions, which
were on their way to cut off the British Expeditionary Force before ' it reached Dunkirk. They also are believed to have forced the diversion of a third armoured division to Calais. The full story was told by four Englishmen and 11 Frenchmen, who were the only troops to escape death or capture. One English officer escaped to the coast and rowed a dinghy single-handed across the Channel. The others found a motor-boat.
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Southland Times, Issue 24163, 27 June 1940, Page 5
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