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DUNKIRK
This year,1965,seems to
have been full of anniversaries.
750 years since Magna Charts
was signed. ' 150 years since`
Waterloo' was won and 25 years
since Dunkirk and the evacu-
ation by sea of 338,226 men of
the British and French A reties,,
train-° incl-er -bile #enemy's nose:
On the 14th of May, 1940,,
Daladier- had phoned Churchill
after the logs of Sedan: "We
have been defeated!" On May
24th, 194Q, the Germans took
Boulogne, their Panzer forces
having made advances of 40
mile 'a day. Calais, only 60
miles along the coast, was ob-
viously the key to Dunkirk, art -
other 25 miles on and to which
place the Allied Armies were
being forced _back.
On May 25th the - Germans
called on Brigadier C. N. Nichol-
son to surrender Calais, to
which he replied: "No. It is
the British Army's .duty to fight
as well as it is the German's."
At midnight Churchill wired cester, cutting all corners, pass-
ed Land's End Light, doing' 29
knots, at a range of 300 yards,
which left the lightbousekeep-
er'n daughter most surprised.
We made Dover with only fuel
for three hews steaming, but
were iminedia ely packed off to
Dunkirk without refueling. The
shoals --outside_- Dunkirk—leave-
Only three channels, X,' Y and
2, : open 'to a destroyer and as
we had no charts, . we did not
knew where on earth Dunkirk
lay. However, as always in ad-
versity, we turned up" Pear's
Esncyclopedia and the day was
saved. Arrived off Dunkirk,
the beaches looked exactly eas
though filled with ants. Be-
hind them the casino buildings
were already on fire. The
beach shelves very gradually
and so it is impossible for a
destroyer to moor nearer thaRn
three quarters of a mile frOiii
the foreshore.
The port possesses two piers.
The west one was already in
flames from the bombed oil
tanks. Worcester berthed
against the east pier, but as
the sea was so bad and lack
of. fuel had lefeher unballasted,
we only took on 300 on this
first trip. At this juncture it
was very noticeable that the
hire; "The Government has de
-tided you must continue to
fight." heroic, Calais fell early
on the 27th and oh the -same
lay the cvaeuation frere Dtin-
wick commenced and lasted 8
days.. An armada of 6l3r ships
of all sues, to effect this was
brilliantly organized. iroin-May_
20th onwards by : admiral Sir
Bertram Ramsey, commanding
at Dover. The cost of °the oper-
ation was six destroyers, eight
personnel ships, five mine-
sweepers, 17 trawlers, a sloop
a hospital ship, three fug boat 4
three yachts' and -183 others.
At Whitsuntide 1965, some 60 of
the grIginal,craft made the trip
to Dunkirk again, several un-
der the same skippers who had
piloted them in 3940.
In 1941
In 1941, with edehts clearly.,
in mind, Coxnmandez , Allinson,
R.N., described the scenes:
"I was in command of an.
ancient vintage destroyer Wor-
cester, on convoy duty in the
Irish Sea, when we were sig-
naled to return to Dover with
all speed. As far as we were
concerned the situation in
France was entirely satisfactory
and we imagined we were to
land troops at Antwerp. Wor-
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troops were beaten ;mels an .000 men, ofitifferetit regi,,
for f"atime it was erne xaent8 These men had been
Q cs t�,
in on me that we were, ess in,vontart with the ,enemy and
to a disaster of the Ant mag- theirs spirit was .magnificent,
nrtode.. which only goes to prove that
+time =.o,.. -lover^ :and, the zearetiou getto'floilierk
refueled, and took on a full the better the spirits of the
complernent Of `shell. My great, troops.
est anxiety was . never to arrive
at the French' coast' without
plenty of shell, partic larly
anti -Oman, z alt, as we expected to
be badly bombed. I do pot
remember the ,number of trips
we made .because for five dales
I was without sleep of any dur
atibn, but I do know the Admir-
alty paid pilotage for six. Al-
though a tremendous amount
51" ciceiiiiasaeeza 'given to the
"little ships" it is just as well
to be historically accurate and
realize that 70 per cent of the
troops were taken off the east
pier, while the small craft fer-
ried troops from shore to barges
etc. which could not berth at
the pier.
Hit Beaches
For some extraordinary rea- { of German aircraft cannon:
son the Germans expended all `However 1 subsequently dis-
their bombs on the beaches I covered a 600-1b. bomb had
rather than on the piers and so turned our two -pounder pom
failed to turn Dunkirkinto the
RECIPE OF.THE MONTH
By the Ontario Tender Fruit Institute
`1Buy Canada,Choice Canned Fruit"
Summertime Salad for Your Party or Your Family
2 boxes of lemongel- Ontario -produced
atin. - peaches!) _ v
1 cup dessicated coc- 1 4 -!package cream
oanut. ' cheese •(white) ..
1 sheet tinfoil- 1 bunch watercress
2 tins Canada Choice (or other green ,f or
peach halves, (buy . garnishing)
your favorite brand of
Dissolve gelatin in one cup of hot water and pour into
cake tin (glass or aluminum). Sprinkle cup of cocoa-
nut into gelatin. Divide tin foil in 4 strips and fold stiff
to use as dividers for 9 equal square servings of ,jelly,
• Leave jelly in refrigerator until slightly set. Fill 9
peach halves with white' cream cheese and place one in each
square (flat side down). Hold in place with toothpicks.
Cut up the rest of the peaches and add some to each square.
Dissolve second box of gelatin in one cup of cold water
and pour slowly into mould. Sprinkle remaining -cocoa-
nut over all. Chill thoroughly. Unmould, remove tin-
foil dividers carefully. Slice each square -with sharp
knife. Garnish with watercress.- Serves 9:
Owing xo}
,the general recall
order Worcester was the .only
target available to the enemy.
Skye was soon attacked by, dive
bozpbers i& considerable num-
hers. " Her propellor damage
reduced speed to 18 knots and
the .channel was too narrow far
zig-zagging. it was at this stage
we noticed the Germans flying
.severraL _,captured _ British, • _air-
craft, still with their British
marking. This did not diseon-
cert Worcester as she haA stand-
ing orders to fire am -any air-
craft within her range. There
were a great many near misses.
I was looking back at our fun-
nels from the bridge and • saw
them being "blown to lilts. I
rernarked on the effectiveness
.The es•ehSi. a1 nrad4th
zero #or the ink atta�ek :to the the,.b)eacben l"a
s" speech :444-
south on - Anne 00 French dtV .
Jens still. at large.
;victory for h
Luftwaffe, . Goering bad, said
'1 will see to itl' It was ':the
_sense poppycock as at :Stalin•
grad. 'Stalingrad will be sup,,
plied by my Luftwaffe,' Every
normal • soldier knew it was
possible,
disaster everyone feared. 1
remember that on one of the
trips we had, General Brooke,
hater C.I.G.S. and Geperal Sir
Ronald Adam were on board.
They wanted to get back to the
War Office very urgently. The
destroyer which left ahead of us
was torpedoed in Y channel,
so I decided to risk the mine
field on the flank of X channel.
During the passage we ran on
a shoal- and only wriggled off
at the expense of bent propel-
lor shafts and the loss of some
blades. We were in danger of
being found on the shoal - b
daylight by dive bombers an
had a full complement of 1100 -
on board. When we did get
off, the ship vibrated so badly
that it was necessary to hold
the chart in my hands to read
it. We were four hours late
into 'Dover.
While we were mooring at
the -east pier,' Dunkirk; we were
subjected to bombing by no
less than 40 aircraft at a time.
Each aircraft had one 609z1b.
bomb and four small anti -per -
sonnei bombs. The former was
delay action, o that its effect
was equivalent to depth -charg-
ing. Dive bombing has to t
experienced to be appreciated.
It is just as though a steel wire
connected your eye to the air-
craft and down this wire bombs
slid down upon you. By June
1st only nine out of 32 destroy-
ers ,remained serviceable. ,Just
pom around, unbeknown to its
gunner, and it was our own
gun which was blowing ,pieces
off our smoke staeks'°. Wor-
cester eventually reached Dov-
er with a great many casualties.
As we entered harbor I saw
the "Maid of Orleans" steaming
out at full speed. I reached
up to the lanyard and gave
three blasts on the siren to in-
dicate I was going full astern.
There was no reaction whatso-
ever from the siren or the ship's
telegraph. I realized the form-
er had been shot away, while
the damage to the propellors
Prevented any movement a-
stern. We struck the "Maid"
a • shrewd blow amidships, 1
even so, she was able to pro-
ceed to Dunkirk. Worcester's
bows were considerably bent,
but the additional damage was
quite unnoticeable amid the
shambles on the rest of the
ship. On this last trip we had
on board some men of the
Worcestershire R e g i m e tit.
Three hundred years before, to
the very day, a former H.M.S._
Worcester carried men •of this
regiment from thebattle of
"The GIorious First of June."
The Panzers
Why were the Panzers held
lack from Dunkirk? General
Nehring, who was General Gud=
erian's chief of staff at Dun-
kirk, has recently explained:
"Hitler was laboring unser
three delusions. 1. He did not
think a direct armored attack
off Dunkirk, on Worcester's last on the British and French
trip, we received, a cipher signal
recalling all destroyers. ,I was
so pear that I decided to _,put
alongside the pier. We took
on a heterogeneous crowd _of
Ment, In the preamble. he fl,aVe
the-wwrzni ` "Wars e y wok
by 'euationai"
The consumer price index
rose by' two per .cent in the
year -up to ,p, 1965, indexes
stood ° at -food 103;4, housing
1.40,3; clothing 121:2; transport-
ation 1459; health and person,-
* * * al care 176.1, recreation .and
On June 4th Churchill made reading 153.5; tobacco and alto,
as famous "We shall fight oil bol °1.21.9. -
of ;the
PARK HOUSE
We invite you to .come down to
The •Surf Dining Room the next
time you dine out or you have bus-
iness associates you would i"ike to.
entertain. We pave a complete
menu and we are'sure you will find
1 our food tasty and plentiful.
We suggest you try our Southern
Fried Chicken. If you can't get to
the dining room..we have take out
i11I service available. •
forces necessary because he
could catch them anyway. Ev-
acuation by sea never entered
his thoughts, nor anyone elses:
. He wanted to save the Pan -
We _would like to thank most sincerely, all of ,those
who patronized us during bur opening last weekend.
We had many `kind compliments and we hope to see
all of yqu again soon. Many thanks!
524-9942,
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As. Our Specialty
• We are happy to announce that we are now open, for business. •
We had planned to open much earlier in the Season but ,due to un-
foreseen difficulties this was not possible.
For the present time we will be featuring our specialty, PIZZA.
Within a short time we will be introducing other specialty :tor -s
our menu. We feel we• have a distinctive taste treat for you ,n
PIZZA and suggest you drop out and have one soon. We are sob r r
but for the present time we will have+ no home delivery service. This,
service wilt start ,atNa later_dato.
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