enormous number of new contingents of the second B.E.F. crossed the English Channel yesterday to join the French armies in an effort to smash the German Blitzkrieg.
While the movement of men and materials to France reached its highest peak yesterday, thousands of men and an enormous amount of equipment had already been sent to France earlier in the week, writes F, M. Fisher, United Press staff correspondent, I saw a transport ship draw up alongside a dock here just as a troop train arrived from central England.
The train immediately pulled up beside the transport and hundreds of British troops in steel helmets, and full war kit poured out of the train ind directly into the transport.
Ten minutes later another train came alongside the transport and the procedure was repeated. The scene Snacted around this one transport was being duplicated around dozens of other ships in this same harbour and at numerous other south-east ports.
We got everything we asked for: and got it quickly," one BEF. unit commander told me. "All our guns fare the very newest and the best you can get"
He said there would be no duplication of the Battle of Flanders. in which the BEF. was overwhelmed by superior German war equipment, The men of the BEF. embarking }for France yesterday appeared to be in frst class condition and ready for the fray, Hundreds of boats, ranging from cargo boats to pleasure cruise ships, have been mobilized to carry to France the largest British army ever 10 go to the Continent—United Press.
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