Ottawa, June 3. Netuae centeitiony of oes Sent from Canada to join the Allied forces end tore were feady t0 follow immediately, declared Mr, James Duncan, acting Deputy Minister of National, Defence, ina here. speech
ing programme was not shelved, but added thatthe Empire air train-Canada had decided that the most impelling necessity was to send as] many planes, pilots and trained. round crews as possible across the Atlantic. for immediate service—Reuter. aerodromes as well as communication Hines," the communique concluded. roclous Fighting Fighting around Dunkirk today, supplementary reports asserted tonight reached a peak of ferocity ever yet attained even in the epic Battle of Flanders, The Germans apparently massed all their resource for a final large-scale drive against Allied tines, Details of the day's fighting were not available this evening, but it was othered from short despatches that weight of numbers was beginning to tell and the Germans secured "cer tain local advantages." The slight progress that the massed German forces did make was made at fnarmous cost in men and materials, however.
Hostilities around Dunkirke during the last two days, military experts here declared, analysing reports from the north, were obviously of an intensity rarely known. They were full of praise for the gallant resist-nce still put up by the Allied troops who have been constantly harassed. by superior forces in a campaign of 20 days, who have been bombed th-cessantly for weeks, who have been placed between the sea' and much larger enemy forces."
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