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Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
...main force of R. A. F. flights still fell on Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, Le Havre, Calais and every intervening cove and roadstead...
...equanimity. On only one point would R. N. agree: the war by sea is certainly going to be intensified, but the R. N. would be the intensifier. During the week R. N. warships indulged again in their bold practice of shelling "invasion ports" along the German held French coast*-Dunkirk, Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient. Paris heard that before long the Germans would be driven back from the coast, presumably by a British expeditionary force landed under R. N.'s guns and R. A. F.'s bombs...
...getting trapped while two British officers held him over whiskey and "good stories." A Belgian fortress officer told him how treachery had robbed him of a third of his troops the night before the invasion. He was given dispatches to General Weygand, dodged a Panzer column and got through Dunkirk, out to Britain and back to Paris. When Calais fell he was on a train to London, watching the English boys in their towns playing football...
...destroyers, five minesweepers and 37 small auxiliary craft. Last week it had 120 vessels (including six ex-U. S. destroyers) and was growing fast. And though its vessels had long been engaged in the humdrum work of convoy and patrol, and distinguished themselves in the hell of Dunkirk, last week for the first time the Royal Canadian Navy gave the world a good, smacking sea brush of its own to show it had no barnacles on its bottoms...