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...German High Command, announcing the occupation of Dunkirk, claimed the capture of 40,000 Allied troops in the siege-wrecked coastal town. And Hitler, describing it as the end of the greatest battle of destruction of all times, asserted that the Allied defeat in Flanders assures a German victory...
...last week progressed, the German thrust which had reached the sea near Abbeville curled northward. The Channel ports began to fall and with them the bases of the isolated Allied Armies. Only Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge-all shatteringly air-bombed-were left when, after gripping Boulogne and Calais, the Germans on Saturday, May 25, struck down Vimy Ridge to the coast at Gravelines...
...week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...
...Deyo, like all Woolworth executives, came up through the ranks of the Woolworth store managers. His first job was in 1902 as assistant to the stock man at Woolworth's London, Ontari'o, store. In 1903 he got the management of the Dunkirk, N. Y., store, moved to Kansas City in 1907 and to St. Louis in 1916. He has belonged to the Woolworth Building executive group since 1929, is currently the head buyer in a purchasing organization which spends upwards of $160,000,000 a year...
Twice in seven months the Duke of Manchester's erratic second son has set out to join the French Foreign Legion. The first time, last summer, he got as far as the Dunkirk recruiting office before changing his mind, decided to open a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead. "I am Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train...