Allied Strategic Moves to Parry the Grave Effects Of Surrender; Calais, Dunkirk Still Held May 29.
\AKING full advantage of the breach in the Allied lines caused I by the surrender of the Belgian forces, German troops pushed] forward rapidly yesterday and are at present engaged in stiff fights against the rear of the Allied armies trapped in Flanders. Last night, the Allied forces undertook a number of strategie moves in order to parry the effects of the grave threat caused by the Belgian surrender.
The British and French soldiers are facing the situation courage ously. The capitulation of the Belgians far from discouraging them has, on the contrary, stiffened their. determination to fight on till the end, The Allied air force continues to intervene in the battle with mass bombings of Germ: lines.
In German territory, they attacked llitary objectives in Bremen and Hamburg, setting a number of fuel depots on fire.
The German air force was equally active, subjecting Dunkirk to a severe Bombing, The harbour was damaged.
Dunkirk is not yet directly threatened by the Germans, while Calais:
still being held by French forees.
Along the Somme, French troops ccéntinued their local operations with a view to freeing certain bridge heads. To do so, however, they had to engage in. stiff ghting—Havas.
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