Fighting around Dunkirk today, supplementary reports asserted tonight reached a peak of ferocity never yet attained even in the epic Battle of Flanders. The Germans apparently massed all their resources for a final large-scale drive against Allied lines.
London, June 4.
A wave of anger and indignation swept over the capital today as newspapers and broadcasting stations announced the bombing of Paris by German planes, The German assertion that only military objectives, mostly airports, were aimed at was ridiculed in London where it is pointed out that there were many civilian casualties.
Public opinion hopes that the Allies will not allow this action to get by without retaliation. The belief prevails that the Allied air force have not bombed German areas sufficiently in the past and it is stressed that Germany must pay for her voluntary violations of the rules of warfare, German industrial towns, it is emphasized, must not be spared.—Havas, Details of the day's fighting were not available this evening, but it was gathered from short despatches that weight of numbers was beginning to tell and the Germans secured "certain local advantages." The slight progress that the massed German forces did make was made at an enormous cost in men and materials, however.
Hostilities around Dunkirk 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 resistance 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 incessantly for weeks, who have veen placed between the sea and much larger enemy forces."
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