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2 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940 Engineers, Draughtsmen, Mechanics PREMIER TELLS STORY OF THE WITHDRAWAL TO-DAY'S B.B.C. PROGRAMMES Questions to Minister CALLING UP TO BE QUICKER Bombing Red Cross "Miracle of Deliverance" which Must Not be Hailed as an Allied Victory SUPERIORITY OF OUR AIR FORCE Replying to Mr. Hely-Hutchinson (C Hastings). Sir KINGSLEY WOOD Eroica Symphony At eight o'clock to-night in the closing programme of its series of summer concerts the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, will play Beethoven "Eroica" Symphony.

At 3 30 the Stratton String Quartet will play Smetana's Quartet fn minor. HOME SERVICE 7671CCS. (391.1 Uetres). 668leci. (449.1 Vitrei), a m.

6 45 Nfws in Norwegian. 7 0 Time. News. 7 IS B.BC. Theatre Ortn.

7 30 Phyilcal Exercises for Yousfer Uen and Older Women. 7 50 Interlude 7 55 Uft Up Your Heart I 8 0 Time. News 8 15 (appro Son and 'Cello Solos. 8 45 BBC. Salon Orchestra.

9 15 Orchestral Concert. 9 55: Ta1k arp lor Housewives." 10 15 Time. Service. 10 30 Nat SMIkret'A Orchestra. 11 0: For schools 11 Music and Movement for Juniors (mm 7-9).

11 20: Current Affairs (fc 13 and over). 11 40: For Home listening Cases 7-12). 12 0 noon: "Ton and Country." A Northern Notebook. 12 20 Orchestral Concert. 1 0 Time; News 1 15: BBC.

Theatra On an. 1 35 The Boulevard Players. 2 0 For Schools. 2 0 MusIc-masiitC (ages SOS). 2 20: Biology fsu 11-15).

2 40: Junior English (aes 9-12). 3 0 i BBC. Theatre Orchestra. 3 30 SmeUna: Stratton Strlnr Quartet. 4 0 Play.

Shades oi the Past." 4 30 Jack Payne's Band. 5 0 NwS in Welsh. 5 5 Studio Service In Welah. 5 20 Children's Hour. 0 Time, News.

0 15 Accent on Rhythm 30 News in Nortian. 45 The World Goes 7 15 Announcements. 7 30 Danger Men 6UU at Work I 0 BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sir Adrian Bou.t (conductor. 9 0 Time.

News. 9 20 To-nlahfs Talk 3 35 BBC. MU.tary Band 10 0 Radio Party Nleht 10 30 G.ielic Musical Procramme. 11 0 Ambrose's Orchestra. 11 40 Kline and Harpsichord Recital.

12 0 Time; Nes. 12 20 12 30 Nes In Norwegian. FOR THE FORCES 804 kes (573 1 Uetres). After 10 877kcs. (342.1 Metres), a 15: Oramophane.

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SITUATIONS VACANT AND WANTED. TO BE LET, SALES BY PRIVATE CONTRACT. will be found on the front pace. CROSS STREET CHAPEL: 246th ANNIVERSARY Cross Street Chanel. Manchester.

which first opened for public worship in lb4 as the new Meeting House, this year celebrates its 246th anniversary In 1694 this country, as now, was at war. and to meet the financial strain of the war a new bank, which was called the Bank of England, was created. Although the national needs to-dav are greater than they were in 1694 the financial rpsnnrrpc rf fVm niv uaiiuii aic fffpatr-r Gtill TlA 4 Vlrt ..1 uuu hi't- i.l,atJCl ctULIlUllllCi) therefore do not hesitate to appeal for muciuui Mipijurt lor me maintenance or the services at the chapel, with which zens have been associated. on iriday. June 7, the Rev.

C. W. Townsend will sit in the vestrv to receive donations which will help to balance the chapel budget for 1940. and the same day a middav service (from 1 15 pjn. until 2 p.m.) will be conducted at the chapel by the Rev.

Rosalind E. Lee, president of the General Assemblv of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. Cricket FORMER ETON CAPTAIN KILLED News was received in Windsor yesterday that A. N. A.

Boyd, the Eton cricket captain of 1934, who was a lieutenant in the Guards, has been killed in action. Boyd was in the Eton eleven for three years, and when he captained them in his third season he scored exactly 100 against Harrow at Lord's. G. Dutton (Warwick) has been chosen to referee the League War Cup final at Wembley on Saturday. N.

von Nida, the young New South Wales professional champion, has won the Queensland open championship for the fourth time. His aggregate of 2S9 for seventy-two holes incliirled a record third round of 68. In aid of charity a cricket match between an England team raised by Parkin, the former Lancashire and England bowler, and the Mayor of Buxton's team, made up chiefly of Derbyshire and Notts players, is being arranged to Jake place on the Park ground at Buxton on two davs probablv during August. missing. We have had a large number of wounded come home safely to this country the greater part.

but I would say about the missine thnt fho be very many reported missing whb wm i-unie oacs nome some day in one way or another. In the confusion of departure it is inevitable that many should be cut off under conditions wrucn required no further resistance from them. Against this lost number of 30.000 men we may set the far heavier loss certainly inflicted upon the enemy. But our losses in material are enormous. We have, perhaps, lost one-third of the men we lost in the opening days of the battle of March 21, 1918.

but we have lust nearly as many guns nearly 1.000 guns and all our transport and all the armed vehicles that were with the Army in the North. This loss will impose a further delay on the expansion of our military strength. That expansion had not been proceeding as fast as we had hoped. The best of all we had to pive have gone with the B.E.F. and, although they had not the number of tanks, they were a very well and finely equipped army.

They had the first-fruits of all our industry had to give, and that is gone. Now th re is this further delay. How long will it be How long it will last depends upon the exertions we make in this island. An effort the like of which has never been seen in our records is now being made. Work is proceeding everywhere night and day.

Sundays and weekdays. Capital and labour have i cast aside their interests, rights, ana customs and put them into the. common stock. Already the flow of munitions has leapt forward. There is no reason why we should not.

in a few months, overtake the sudden and serious lass that has come upon us without retarding development of our general programme. Colossal Military Disaster Nevertheless, our thankfulness at the escape of our army and of so many men, loved ones who have passed through an I agonising week our thankfulness must not blind us to the fact that what has i happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster. Tne French Army has been weakened, the Belgian Army has been lost. A largo part of the fortified lines upon wnich so much faith had been reposed has gone. Many valuable mining districts and factories have passed into the enemy's possession.

The whole of the Channel ports are in his hands, and the strategic consequences tnat follow from that. We must expect another blow to be struck almost immediately at us or at France. We are told that Herr Hitler has a plan for invading the British Isles. That has often been thought of before When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for over a year with his flat-bottomed boats and grand army we were told by someone. There are bitter weeds in England." There are certainly a good many more since the British Expeditionary Force returned.

The whole question of defence against invasion is affected by the fact that we have, for the time being in this island, incomparably more military forces than we have ever had. But this will not continue. We shall not be content with a defensive war. (Cheers In our duty to our Allies we have to reconstitute the British Expeditionary again under its gallant Comman der-in-Chief, Lord Gort. (Cheers.

1 All tnis is in train, but in the interval wc must put our defences in this island into such a high state of organisation that it is made Dossible to give effective security and that the largest possible potential of offensive eflort will be realised On this we are now engaged A Secret Session It would be very desirable to enter on this subject in a secret session. (Cheers.) I understand that some request is to be marii on ciiliiort which will be readily acceded to by the Government. We havp fnilnrl it nonccvr 4 tln I. VI LCmv. measures of increasing stringency, not only against enemy aliens and suspicious characters of other nationalities, but aiau dBamst rjruisn suojects who may become a danger or a nuisance should the war be transported to the United Kingdom.

I know that there are a great many people affected by the orders we have made who are the passionate enemies of Nazi Germany. I am very sorrv for them, but we cannot, in the present stress, draw all the distinctions wc-should like. If parachute landings were attempted and fierce fighting attendant on them followed, these unfortunate people would be far better out of the way for their own sakes as well as for ours. But there is another class for which I feel not tha cTinhtct ill i i ment has given us power to put down Fifth Column activities with a strong hand, and we shall use these powers without the slightest hesitation until we are satisfied and more than satisfied that this malignancy in our midst has been effectually stamped out. mere nas never been a period in all these long centuries in which an absolute guarantee against invas on.

st 11 less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon the same wind that would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always a chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many Continental tyrants. Novel Methods We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice and the ingenuity of aggression which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel strategy and every kind of brutal and treacherous manoeuvre. I think no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching but, I hope, also with a steady eye.

One must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised. I have myself full confidence that if all do their duty and nothing is neglected and if the best arrangements are made as they are being made we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, ride out the storms of war. and outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. (Cheers.) At any rate that is what we are trying to do. That is the resolve of the Government, every man of them.

It is the will cf Parliament and of the nation. wVe Cannot Fail" The British Empire, with the French Republic, linked together in their cause and their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the ddious apparatus of Nazi rule. We cannot flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight 1 on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing; confidence and growing strength in the air.

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, in the fields, in the streets, and in the hills. We shall never surrender, and even if which I do not for a moment believe--this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. COCKS (Lab. Broxtowe) asked the Secretary for War whether he intended to organise a corps of para-Chutists and gliders.

Mr. EDEN replied that recent operations were being carefully studied by his department in order to decide what, if any, changes in the organisation -of the Army were required. It would not be in the national interest to make any furiher announcement at this stage. Mr. GARRO-JONES (Lab.

Aberdeen asked Mr. Eden if he was not aware that operations of this kind had been under experiment in other countries for many e3rs. and was this the first date on which they had come under the study of the British War Office. Mr. EDEN I did not say that.

Mr. Garro-Jones is reading into my answer what has not been stated. Mr. GARRO-JONES rose again and was greeted with cries of Fifth Column when he repeated his questions. Mr.

EDEN The reply I made referred to recent operations. It is these recent operations which are a new develop ment of a method practised before which is now being studied. Mr. SORENSEN (Lab. Leyton asked the Speaker whether it was in order for a member of the House, when another member was asking a supplementary question, to refer to him as Fifth Column The SPEAKER I should say certainly not.

ATTACKS ON RED CROSS Mr EDEN, replying to Mr. George Strauss (Lab. North Lambeth), said that during recent operations the enemy had deliberately bombed hospital carriers in circumstances which admitted of no mistake as to their identity, in complete disregard of the immunity given them by international agreement to which the uerman Government was a party. As regards attacks on hospitals and ambulance trams, he was not yet in a position to make any statement on official information. He was not at present prepared to make a decision to remove the Red Cross or other distinctive markings from hospital accommodation in this country.

POWERS OF THE MILITARY Mr. ATTLEE. answering questions by Mr. de la Bore (C. Evesham), Mr.

Cary (C. Eccles), and Mr. Price (Lab. Forest of Dean), said that if at any time in any area military necessity so required, the military authorities would assume complete control of all the defence organisations of the civil authorities. In the meantime radical changes in the composition and organisation of the civil defence services would be undesirable.

TWO GIRLS JOINED THE B.E.F. Disguised as British soldiers an English girl and a Belgian girl who fled from German bombing raids at Poperinghe have reached England. The English girl is Miss Madden, 21-year-old daughter of a British gardener for the War Graves Commission at Poperinghe, and the other a Belgian relative. Miss Madden's father ioined the British Army and she remained to tend the graves. When the German raiders came she and her Belgian friend obtained British steel helmets and uniforms.

At Dunkirk they mixed with men of the B.E.F. waiting on the beach for sea transport to England and were taken aboard one of the rescue ships. WRIT FOR NORTH CROYDON A writ for the North Croydon by-election, caused by the resignation of Lieutenant Colonel G. K. M.

Mason on his appointment as a zone organiser of the Local Defence Volunteers, was ordered to be issued in the House of Commons yesterday. Colonel Mason, who had been Conservative member for the division since 1922. is organiser for the City of London and a large area of the West End. The prospective National Government candidate is Mr. H.

U. Willmk. K.C.. and no opposition is anticipated. The figures at the last general were Lieutenant Colonel Mason (C.J 36,383 Mr.

Mitchell (Lab 17.872 Ma j. 18,511 tjuiuiucjv itaa utrxrn JJluvl'sluritiuy nxca i ior nominations Fleet, will carry on the struggle until, in God's good time, the New World with all its power and might sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. iLoud cheers FURTHER SPEECHES RESISTED Mr. Churchill having spoken. Mr.

LEES-SMITH (Lab. Keighley) said he was glad that the Prime Minister had told the nation in the plainest terms the effort which it would be called upon to make and of the gravity Mr. MAXTON (I.L.P. Bndgeton), intervening on a point of order, said I am somewhat at a loss to understand what is now taking place. (Cheers.) I understood we were to have a statement from the Prime Minister and finish (Hear, hear), and proceed to the business on the order paper.

Do I under stand now that Mr. Lees-Smith is pro ceeding to open an adjournment debate? The SPEAKER 1 certainly did not understand he was contemplating an adjournment debate. Captain BELLENGER (Lab. Basset-law) asked if the same indulgence would be allowed to private members as was being permitted to the Front Bench. I have got something to say as well as others," he added.

The SPEAKER said that he did not propose to give members of the Front Bench any special indulgence. He hoped Mr. Lees-Smith would confine himself to one or two remarks. Mr. Lees-Smith again rose, and Sir JOSEPH LAMB (C.

Stone) asked: "Will this create a precedent for the future (Cheers.) The SPEAKER said that, as there seemed to be some misunderstanding, he thought Mr. Lees-Smith had better not continue his speech. Captain BELLENGER appealed to the Speaker not to stifle views which are prevalent in those members who have returned from overseas," and to give them an opportunity, on an appropriate occasion, to say what they had to say. If you are to stifle debate, then there is going to be trouble." be added. Mr.

MAXTON The Prime Minister has offered you a secret session. Captain BELLENGER asked the Prime Minister for an assurance that the secret session would take place at a very early opportunity. The PRIME MINISTER: I understood it would probably be convenient on Tuesday. the decision to raise the excess profits tax to iuu per cem uix i uuu i.au at en ally affected the limit ation-of-dividends proposals. The companies Willi.

II AUU1U UC HityiAlJ Limitation of Dividends Bill were passed were inose which uau auuw tFiwvri.c in the distribution of their dividends. have decided tot to proceed with the Dill. The prohibition imposed on bonus issues for the period oi the' war would remain. He emphasised that the objective of the original proposals remained as important as ever, and to the limited extent that it was not attained by the imposition of the 100 per cent excess profits tax he was sure that all public companies concerned would act in accordance with the general principles underlying the bill. QUICKER CALL-UP Mr.

EDEN, in reply to Captain Plugge (C. Chatham), said that the calling up of men was being accelerated. The maximum number that could be trained would be called up this month, giving an intake of about double the normal rate. In addition, volunteers between 18 and 19i were being formed into extra companies in certain home defence battalions. COAL SUPPLIES Mr.

REN FELL (Secretary for Mines), in reply to Mr. Lewis (C. Colchester), said it was too early yet to say whether the arrangements now being made to increase coal production would enable the Government to avoid the reintroduction of rationing. In the meantime it was of the highest impoit-ance to make full use of the transport facilities to distribute supplies for next winter. He urged domestic consumers who could do so to lay in stocks and he was arranging with the trade thut supplies should be fairly distributed.

In leply to a further question, Mr Grcnfell said that it should not be assumed from his reply that thi-Government was not also providing stocks from which everybody could bo served in their turn. ARMAMENT OF PARACHUTISTS Captain BALFOUR (Under Secretary for Air), replying to Mr. Martin (Lab. Southwark Central), said that German aircraft engaged on troop-carrying operations weie generally of the unarmed transport class. In addition to the usual small arms, the troops carried are known to have been equipped with heavy machine-guns of 13 and 20 millimetre calibre, with 5-centimctre and 8.1-centimetrc mortars, with 7.5-ccntimetre infantry guns and possibly 10.5-centimetre light howitzers.

INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION The report presented at the annual meeting yesterday of the Invalid Children's Aid Association of Manchester, Salford, and District referred to the eilect of the war on the association's activities. Convalescent homes which had been cleared order of the Government at the outbreak of war and had remained empty for some time were, however, now available again, and there was sufficient accommodation in them for all the children who were referred to the association Con-Vtlescent treatment had been arranged for 465 sick and rripplcd children for periods of from three weeks to twelve months. It was intimated th.it a branch of th association had been opened at Wythen-shawe, so that mothers there would be saved the long and expensive journc to the Manchester ollic The childn ii and staff of the Luncastcrian School, which was founded by the association, and is now part ot the Manchcstcr Education Committee's scheme for physically defective children, had been evacuated to the country for th duration of the war. It had been hoped that a new day school fin crippled children would "be built thi-year on the outskirts of the city thi plans had. in fact, been accepted and passed, but the war had compelled the postponement of the project.

Lady Mayoress (Mrs. G. White) presided, and congratulated tin association on the extent of its win 1: during the year, in spite of th difliculties created by the war VIMY MEMORIAL SAFE At a South-east Coast Poht. Tuesday. I have spoken with British soldier, who were at Vimy a week ago and thf told me that the Canadian national memorial on Vimy Ridge is untouched There were earlier reports that it been blown up by German bomber--.

British United Press. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE Women required immediately for enrolment and training up CO JO tf they have had previous war tenruce) as COOKS (trained or iciai-trainedj MESS AND KITCHEN STAFF (must be strong and hard-working). BALLOON FABRIC WORKERS (machinist or npbolstcruig experience useful but not essential). TELEPRINTER OPERATORS typing experience valuable). 00 Between aces if snd 35 as CLERKS sll Duties).

(must hare good education). In addition to pay (for terra days a week), food, accommodation and uniform are provided free, ray increased on promotion. Enrolment 11 for duration of war with liability to serve at home or abroad. Minimum height five feet. iy or fmU la tke W.A.A.F.

RECRUITING OFFICE, 70. CMtridf WMHuad, Mitff-nid HOTEL 1 POLE asm mm BOURNEMOUTH Situated on the healthy East Cliff MODERNISED and REFORfHSHEP HOT COLD RUNNING WATER IN ALL BEDROOMS. FAMED FOR COMFORT CUISINE tnxr LICENSED. Ideal for BUSINESS or PLEASURE. Tor rorttmr Term, mrvlg to JTCMpcr OHaWZMOUA Making his statement on the war situation in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr.

Churchill, the Premier, who was received with cheers, said From the moment that the French defences at Sedan and on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week of May only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French armies which had entered Belgium at the appeal of the Belgian King. But, however, this strategic fact was not immediately realised. The French High Command hoped they would be able to close the gap, and the armies of the north were under their orders. Moreover, a retirement of this kind would have involved almost certainly the destruction of the fine Belgian Army of over twenty divisions and the abandonment of the whole of Belgium. Like a Sharp Scythe Stroke Therefore, when the force and scope of the German penetration was realised, and when the new French Generalissimo, General Weygand, assumed command in place of General Gamelin, an effort was made by the French and British Armies in Belgium to occupy and hold the right hand of the Belgians and to give their own right hand to a newly created French Army which was to have advanced across the Somme in great strength.

However, the German eruption swept like a sharp scythe stroke around the right and rear of the armies of the north. A force of eight or nine armoured divisions, each ot about 400 armoured vehicles of diflerent kinds, carefully assorted to be complementary and divisible into self-contained units, cut off all communications between us and the main French armies. It severed our own communications for food and ammunition, which ran first to Amiens and afterwards through Abbeville, and it sheared its way up the coast to Boulogne and Calais, almost to Dunkirk. Behind this armoured and mechanised onslaught came a number of German divisions in lorries, and behind them again there plodded comparatively slowly the dull brute mass of the ordinary German Army and German people, alwas so ready to trample down in other lands the liberties and comforts they have never known in their own. The Defence of Cahiis I have said this vast armoured scythe stroke almost reached Dunkirk.

Boulogne and Calais were the centres of desperate fighting. The Guards defended Boulogne for a while and were then withdrawn by orders from this country. The Rifle Brigade, the 60th Rifles, and the Queen ictoria Kilies. with a battalion of British tanks and 1,000 Frenchmen in all about 4,000 strong defended Calais to the last. (Cheers.) The British Brigadier was given an hour to surrender.

He spurned the offer (cheers) and four days of intense street fighting passed before a silence reigned over Calais which marked the end of a memorable resist ance. Only 30 unwounded survivors were brought off by the Navy and we do not know the fate of their comrades. Their sacrifice was not, however, in vain. At least two armoured divisions which otherwise would have been turned against the British Expeditionary I force had to be sent there to overcome them. Thev added another page to the glories of the Light Division, and the time gained enabled the Gravehnes water line to be flooded and held by the French troops.

Thus it was that the port of Dunkirk was kept open Hope Seemed Forlorn When it was found impossible for the armies of the north to reopen their communications through Amiens for the main French armies, only one choice remained It seemed indeed forlorn. The Belgian, British, and French armies were almost surrounded their sole line of retreat was a single port and its neighbouring beaches. They were pressed on every side by heavy attacks and far outnumbered in the air. When, a week ago, I asked the House to fix this afternoon for a statement, I feared it would be my hard lot to announce from this box the greatest military disaster in our long history. I thought and some good judges agreed with me that perhaps from 20.000 to 30,000 men might be re-embarked, but it certainly seemed that the whole of the French First Army and the whole of the British Expeditionary Force north of Amiens and the Abbeville gap would be broken up in the field or else have to capitulate for lack of food and ammunition.

This was the hard and heavy tidings for which I called on the House and nation to prepare themselves i a week ago. The whole root and core' and brain of the British Army, upon which we were to build, and are to build, the British armies of the later years of the war. seemed about to perish on the field or to be led into an ignominious captivity. That was the prospect a week ago. Another blow which might have proved fatal was to fall.

The King of the Belgians had called upon us to come to his aid. Had not this ruler and his Government severed themselves from the Allies who rescued their country from extinction in the last war. had they not sought refuge in what proved a fatal neutrality, the British and French armies might well at the very outset have saved not only Belgium but perhaps even Poland. Belgian Kings Surrender Yet. at the last moment, when Belgium was already invaded, the King of the Belgians called upon us to come to his aid, and even at the last moment we came.

He and his proved efficient Belgian Army, nearly half a million strong, guarded our eastern flank, and thus kept open our only line of retreat to the sea Suddenly, without any prior consultation and with the least possible notice, and without the advice of his Ministers and upon his own personal act. he sent a plenipotentiary to the German Command, surrendered his Army, and exposed our whole flank and means of retreat. (Cries of I asked the House a week ago to suspend its judgment because the facts were not clear. I do not feel that any reason now exists why we should not form our own opinion upon this pitiful episode. The surrender of the Belgian Army compelled the British, at the shortest notice, to cover the flank to the sea of more than 30 miles in length, otherwise it would have shared the fate to which King Leopold had condemned the finest Army his country had ever formed.

One has only to look at the map to realise that contact was lost inevitably between the British and two out of the three corps forming the French Army, who were still much farther from the coast than we were, and how it seemed impossible that any large number of Allied troops could reach the coast. The Struggle at Dunkirk The enemy attacked in great strength on all sides, and their main power the power of their far more numerous Air Force was thrown into the battle or concentrated upon Dunkirk and the beaches. Pressing in on the narrow exit both from the east and west, the enemy began to Are with cannon along the beaches by which alone shipping could approach or depart. They set magnetic mines in the channels and the seas, they sent repeated waves of hostile aircraft, sometimes more than a hundred strong in one formation, to cast their bombs upon the single pier that remained and the sand dunes upon which the British troops were trying to take shelter. Their U-boats, one of which was sunk, and their motor-launches took their toll of the boats.

For four or five days the intense struggle raged. An armoured division, together with great masses of German artillery and infantry, hurled themselves upon the ever-narrowing and contracting appendix upon which the French and British Armies fought. Meanwhile the Royal Navy, with the willing help of the Merchant Navy and craft of all kinds, strained every nerve to embark the British and Allied troops. Over 220 light warships and more than 650 other vessels were engaged. They had to operate upon a difficult coast and often under adverse weather conditions, and under an almost ceaseless hail of enemy bombers and increasing concentration of artillery fire.

Nor were the seas themselves free from mines or torpedoes. It was in conditions such as these that our men carried on ith little or no rest lor days and nights, moving troops across dangerous waters. The numbers they have brought back are the measure of their devotion and courage. The hospital ships which brought off many thousands of our wounded, and which were so plainly marked, were a special target for the Nazi bombers, but the men and women aboard them never faltered in their duty. Meanwhile the A.F..

which had already been intervening in the battle as far as its range would allow from home bases, now used parts of its metropolitan fighter strength to strike at the German bombers and fighters. A Miracle of Deliverance This struggle was protracted and fierce. Now, suddenly, the scene is clear and the crash and thunder has, if only for a moment, died away. A miracle of deliverance has been achieved by valour, perseverance, perfect discipline, and faultless service. The skill, resource, and unconquerable fidelity is manifest lo us all.

The enemy is hurled back by the retreating British and Ficnch troops. It was so roughly handled that it dare not molest their departure. Our Air Force decisively defeated the main strength of the enemy Air Force and inflicted upon the enemy losses of at least four to one The Navy, using nearly 1,000 ships, carried our 335,000 men, French and British, out of the jaws of death back to their native land, and to the tasks which lie immediately before them. (Loud cheers.) We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory Wars are not won by evacuation, but there was a victory inside this deliverance which should be noted. It was gained by the Air Force.

Many of our soldiers, coming back, have not seen the Air Force. They only saw the enemy bombers which had escaped their attention. Many people have underrated this achievement. I have heard much talk about this. That is why I have gone out of my way to tell you about it.

Great Trial of Air Strength This was a great trial of strength between the British and German Air Forces. Can ycu conceive a greater objective for the power of Germany in the air than to make all evacuation from these beaches impossible and to sink all the ships outside almost a thousand Can there have been an objective of gi eater military importance and greater significance to the whole purposes of the war than this They tried hard, and they were beaten back they were frustrated in their attack. We got the Army away, and they have paid fourfold for any loss they have inflicted. Every day formations of German aeroplanes and we know this is a very brave race have turned on several occasions from an attack of one-fourth of their number of the Royal Air Force and dispersed in different directions. Twelve aeroplanes have been hunted by two.

One aeroplane was driven into the ater and cast away by the mere charge of a British aeroplane which had no more ammunition. (Cheers.) All our types and all our pilots have been vindicated. The Hurricane, Spitfire, and the new Defiant, all have been vin- as superior to wnat they have When we consider how much greater would be our advantages in defending the air above this island against an yvctacas duacK, i must say that I find in tnesp a cuva i practical and reassurin? thoughts may I will pay my tribute to these young airmen rhpr qh un trench Army, which, very largely, for Micmuc uruig, riave oeen cast back and disturbed by the onrush of a few thousand armoured vehicles. May it not also be that the course of civilisation itself will be defended by the skill and vision of a few thousand airmen There never has been. I suppose, all the history nf tha tunity for us.

The Knights of the Round Crusaders they all fall back uti. past, noi only distant but nrnsam to fhnen juuu iiicu going forth every morning to guard their native land and all we stand for these men. going forward, holding in their hands the instruments of colossal and shattering power, of whom it can be said Every mom brought forth a noble chance and every chance brought forth a noble deed." These young men deserve our gratitude, and all the brave men woo. in so many ways and on so many occasions, are ready and will continue ready to give life and all to their native land. (Cheers.) Our Losses I return to thp Armv i luiig series of very fierce battles, now on this front and now on that, fighting on three fronts at once, battles fought by two or three divisions against an equal or somewhat larger number of the enemy and fought very fiercely on the old ground so many of us knew so well in the battles our losses in men have exceeded 30,000 killed, wounded, and yuu uj express ine sympathy of the House to all who have suffered bereavement or are still anxious.

The President of the Board of Trade is not here to-day. His son has been Killed, and many in the House have felt private affliction in its sharpest form. I would say this about the Any day Any three. Lines Saturday but dasalthln Week Saturdayi aecfc ad ad. ad s.

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