At Least 75 Per Cent. of B.E.F., French Allies Reach Safety; "Suicide" Rearguards London, June 1. 'AT least 75 per cent. of the British Expeditionary Forces and their French allies have been snatched from what appeared! 96 hours ago to be the certain annihilation of 00,000 men, according to well-informed sources here today.
In the most incredible feat in military history, the evacuation of the Allied armies of the north was carried out like a peace time ferry service, with every conceivable craft pressed into service. Dirty little oilers, pleasure steamers, yachts, barges, fishing boats, tramp steamers and motor boats have cut across the English Channel for the past three days loaded with battle-scarred Allied troops. These ships were subjected throughout the Channel crossing to the most fierce German air and artillery bombardment.
The evacuation of the Allied armies team Flanders has been almost completely accomplished, with, only one: Allied division remaining late today in the Flanders area, according reliable but unofficial sources at south-eastern English port today.
The battered Allied soldiers were Uterally scooped up by the handfuls from the beaches and the French surf and were dumped at British ports by the tens of thousands.
'The rescue work was carried' out while the Allled navies and air forees plastered Flanders ills with 'a fire shield, behind which the "sulcide" rearguard, including General Viscount Gort, commander of the BEF, wore holding off the Germans from vital jumping off points—United Press.
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