Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 01, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page fourteen Winnipeg free press saturday june 1, 1940 Dunkirk is prologue to new blast of War by Francis Steven s London june 1. I special Cable Public rejoicing Over the Rescue of the greater part of the British expeditionary Force from Dunkirk cannot divert attention it the pres ent moment for it is but a pro Logue in uie flaming Elrama ref full blast War yet to came. As the threat to Britain and France draws nearer each Day. And possibly hour is a Cep Tible steadying and i Irmin resolve not Annc in bu1 also in channels. The growing activity is evidence of an almost subconscious Faith in he sting foundations of . If the return of the soldiers safely from the deluge of fire in seems like unfold Iii i in iracle. Per haps the of Faith of this is also a Dlhy of nou financial machinery the is steady As a Mick City Stock and Money markets reflect an unfaltering nation. During the first week of the gov j a rement securities dropped about two Points but during. The past i there has been steady buying 1 of British government securities Thrno ghost Britain. I individual shares Dropper slight july. Not under Large soiling pressure but on the calculation that wartime industries might by still German air Force is so Invin Cibb How Are these men Here at Ali when they were massed on shores or ferried in solid masses aboard ships barges and destroyers one bomb could have slaughtered mor British soldiers than could be Lac out in Long Days of infantry attack and if Hie tanks Are so All Power us and j Bow. Then have these men backed per up across Miles of strange and in a j of i known country to Dunkirk Cha soul government they were not merely by tank Many other j columns but by hordes of massed German infantry this evacuation of the British army is the answer to three or four of the major questions in the world s mind at this hour let us never forget the action fit that French rear guard. Per haps because they Felt the French army had the germans to break through this French division apparently volunteered to fight Hie uttermost rear guard action. Though Man British fought All the Way with the germans pressing there is scarcely one that does not Tell with Pride of the Way thu. French rear guard detachments came and thrust themselves in Between Ibe germans and the retirement. So on tie Quay Here when two further i Small fishing tugs each packed curtailed by the government Savins policy. Thus the drop in Price was not caused by investors Selling but by jobbers marking Down prices. Solid As pills in a bottle with French troops Drew alongside there passing at that moment one of those j rag tag detachments of British sol a the financial editor of the news Diers of All units. They were just chronicle to Nav said the reflect staggering off a big destroyer Tion of the strength of Gilt edged had just come in. As these weary stocks and the trend toward lower and dazed britishers in the Emo interest rates is seen n the discount of the Market. For he weekly pounds of Treasury Bills reached an All time r e c o r d o where applications quota of 65.000.cco tonal grip of feeling their own Sod under their feet caught sight Down there of the French troops stand Abul 1 urd from rate Ono looking up at them there Sud 130.305.000 Denly burst Over that Quay a great. I hoarse cheer. I the column of British swayed to Stop and there with arms up i lifted they cheered and shouted i Down to the Little shipload. The frenchmen in their wide Khaki i Coats and funny Little steel helmets and took the cheers with Pride a. I indescribable on their White up gifted faces. And when the British Ith lads had landed and started on Low Reat among those standing quivering chins and unmanly eyes from those two fishing tugs on quays watching this extra-1beneath the quayside Rose one Ordinary item in the Long Parade shout. Of Laden and Swift and last Man of Small and slow was one Man. Close i his overflowing River of to 70 in a stained Blue quare i this incident is just one suit and White yachting of Lulal i a saw and you must who looked As if he had been sleeping in a ditch. I said to him by god that is effete in t it he said i am Here to try and get aboard for the return trip of those barges. I lost my ship on other Side and was brought Back Here on a destroyer. Are you in the i asked. Said he. I took Over my own bit of Craft from the 40-footer she but i was sunk by bomb. How Ever that is not the Point. I have damned these barges for years. Now i see a Chance to make my my bedraggled Friend was a Lon Don business Man. Yacht owner and sportsman. Though i did not see him go. I believe in my heart thai those barges unloaded their glorious cargo and were tugged off out into the Harbor Back Over that 40 flaming Miles to Dunkirk that unshaven Blue Clad gentleman and sportsman was sitting in the cubby of a Barge across a dirty table from his old Friend and enemy and fellow Riverman. Some cursing Barge skipper. Gigantic Jiff saw How can we Tell the Story of this Pic. This improbable this incomparable ferrying of an army from very Core of hell not by such incidents As these. Incidents arc no Good for they Are like mixing up All the Jig saw puzzles there Are and then from the vast Heap trying to make one picture. So blazing with significance is this Story of the Rescue of the British army already More than 75 per cent Home along with thousands of their splendid French rear guard. First if the less at the whole picture. For it contains such material As this that in the hour of what should have been disaster these men of two a j Lions remnants of armies can pause whatever their agonized exhaustion and shout their affection to one another in the Dawn. That is not the effect that Hitler s Blitzkrieg has formerly wrought. My friends from this nettle has in deed been plucked a Rose. From this Miracle of Rescue armies comes the first manifestation of that mys tic Force which through nine Cen Turies has risen to our Call. So think of this Over sunday of this still endless procession amidst aisles of guarding men and fighting ships. And i go Back now to Ratcli for the end. Because the last Man off will by Worth the seeing. Cross the Atlantic shows the which Thev say brought Down Toui German plants. Water Rifle machine gun and Pis Tol ammunition and hand grenades. Taking off from English Fields. The great bombers carried the water in containers in the bomb Racks and dropped it by Means of Para chutes through the rifts in the dense smoke Clouds. The British planes swept Down daringly within 50 feet of the Citadel dropping their supplies under a furious Ger Man anti aircraft bombardment. One British plane was lost most of the others were hit several times. Afterwards a Fleet of planes accompanied 39 British by dive bombers flew Over the Citadel. The dive bombers attacked the germans while the other planes dropped ammunition and hand grenades ii the Citadel. The lines in the Dunkirk Are had been drawn in behind the water barriers so that a relatively Small Force of determined men could de fend them. It was indicated that the might seek to hold of there for some time and certainly until All Hope had gone of saving More men of the. Northern army who were still apparently fighting their Way toward the coast in groups against overwhelmingly larger German forces. It was conceded that eventual la the germans should be Able to make the position untenable by bringing up Long Range guns More about continued from Rase one leave will enable authorities to get them reassembled. Some rescued men were in such a state they had to be met at the ship with uniforms. Before our troops made their re said a British officer they had in almost every Case succeeded in blowing up gasoline dumps and leaving nothing useful to the enemy. They stayed to do this at the risk of being first As a Rumor the mommies said word of the surrender of the belgian Ord ered by King Leopold which exposed their left flank to the Ger mans. First came As an unbeliever Rumor. There already had been rumours of different a gunner re marked. But we realized this one was the real thing when the Ger mans suddenly appeared All around us. They were firing at us from what had been belgian lines. The order was Given to the returning Flanders veterans loudly praised the Royal Navy and the Royal air Force that cleared Way new evacuation plans prepared London. June 1. Macdonald health minister bounced today that the regarded the danger of a germ air attack on Britain As so real it plans for evacuation of children should be As Complete possible by the beginning of week. Evacuation May not Start Macdonald said but May definitely decide to Star i in some areas in the course of week according to who do not Register pc Ildren by monday evening a. Across the Channel As German loss there was development Asj bombers attacked the ships yet unforeseen. J Southeast ports welcomed hourly More and More troops from flan Ders who crossed from Dunkirk. A Canadian press despatch says re turning mommies told of nazi losses in Flanders five times As great As those of the allies. A naval spokes Man declared that the loss of a Small transport three destroyers and several auxiliary vessels in the evacuation operations was trivial compared to the lives saved. The nation steeled itself for the expected casualty list from Flanders. Bloody bitter fighting All the one Soldier called it. He came Home on one of the seven ships which reached the same port within two hours Friday. The merr carried All the equipment they could Salvage. We left the heavy stuff behind and destroyed one . Reports described the entire area on and in from the Flanders coast As like a great Volcano and Childre ening a. The risk of not having their ninety sever special trains take children from mouthed const towns to new areas in accordance with plans announced Macdonald said. One Tommy said i never believed anything like i the Wall of fire our ships put up to screen the troops was possible. Shells were falling in a mathematically straight Linn behind our positions. Many of he survivors had to Swirn to the ships through a Hail of bomb splinters. One officer declared our losses in the last few Days have been far less than might be expected. But the Slaughter among has been incredible. Commanders seem to away their men s the germans the German be throwing our fliers were said one Soldier. Bui it s volume we Hospital ships As Well As troop ships were targets for German bombs on the homeward trip they declared. A wheel shaped implement has been invented to Cut round cakes military experts asserted that there i and pies into eight or ten equal size had never been a Battle in All the j pieces with knives made of wire world in which so Many men and machines were lighting in such a Small area Charles Morice. Military commentator from the newspaper Petit Parisien. Said the retiring move German experimenters have in creased the number of grazing Days More about continued from Page three g6th Montreal and 81st Shaw i Gan Falls quo Field batteries. . 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