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... have estab- Ikhed complete supremacy the air in the region the offensive. GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. INFANTRY BATTLE FLANDERS OPENED.” In Flanders artillery activity again increased evening to most extreme violence. This continued undiminished during the night ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1917
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A SENSATIONAL ARTICLE

... article states that the Germans, although unconquered, are obliged to shorten their Western front, and they will therefore evacuate the greater portion of French territory and the western part of Belgium, including the coast. The Germans are preparing a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1917
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BELGIANS HEAVILY ENGAGED

... BELGIANS HEAVILY ENGAGED. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 6. _ A Ghent correspondent reports that fierce fighting took place recently in Flanders. Ger. man troops which were quickly moved up from Zarren and Eessen I) a seed through difficult hours. The Belgians again ...

Published: Monday 08 November 1915
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

* GERMAN OFFICIAL

... GERMAN OFFICIAL. In Flanders artillery activity remained strong, especially between Houthoulst. Wood and the Ypres- Comines Canal.' After nightfall English twice attacked with strong forces between the road leading from Ypres to PoelkarPelle and Zonnebeke ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1917
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Withdrawal Goes On

... perspective. Mr. Churchill once wrote of the skilful evacuation of the Dardanelles, This consummation was acclaimed by the shallow and the uninstructed as if it had been a victory. The retreat from Flanders has been a superb, heroic piece of work, and the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LILLE AND OSTEND. (By Our Correspondent on War.)

... the immediate occasion of the evacuation was, of course, the occupation of Menin and Courtrai by the Second British Army. With Lille goes the rest of Flanders, and we may expect to hear in the next few days of the evacuation of the whole of the Belgian ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1918
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1240 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

6,122 PRISONERS

... BRITISH FRONT HAMPERED BY RAIN. (French Comntentator's , Review.) Paris. Friday (received to-day). Persistent rain on the Flanders front has soaked the ground to such an extent that it is difficult for the Allied troops to bring up their heavy artillery ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1917
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW FRANCO-BRITISH PUSH-ITALIAN SETBACK

... SETBACK Valuable Positions Won by English and Canadian Troops on Main Ridge. ITALIANS WITHDRAW ON 25 MILES FRONT. Our Ally Evacuates the Bain ~ i zz a Piateau. HUNS' BIG CLAIMS. Fighting on I - atian Soil-=30,000 Prisoners, 300 Guas Taken. e 4 , c'Pewall ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1917
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

, ;s THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON’ NEWS—Jr nf. S, 1940 SUPERIOR ‘\JERRV —ALSO IN GOOD HUMOUR ! (British Official ..

... France had an incredibly difficult and thankless task to COMKADES-IN-ARMS BROUGHT FROM FLANDERS PACKED LIKE SARDINES. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FRENCH TROOPS WERE EVACUATED WITH OUR OWN. (G.P.U.) perform. This it played to perfection, in executing a rapid advance ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SALE OR HIRE

... GEORGE ON THE BATTLEFIELI ) 500 500 580 600 WITH THE BELGIANS IN ACTION THE FIGHT FOR CALAIS BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS IN FLANDERS BRITISH TROOPS AROUND ARRAS WAR WITH TURKEY . . . 600 550 ‘VITH THE WARRIORS AROUND YPRES 550 GREAT BATTLE AROUND MUIR= ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1915
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 181 | Tags: none

GERMAN OFFICIAL

... GERMAN OFFICIAL. The day was quiet in 'Flanders and before Cambrai. During the night before last we gave up the projecting positions between Crevecceur and Beaurevoir, on the canal, on the Banteux-Le Catelet line, and withdrew• our troops there to a rearward ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1918
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 185 | Page: 3 | Tags: none