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OBSERVER. RIDING FARES

... pouring across the frontier, through the gathering dusk. I watched the unending stream ' Tommies go rolling down the Flanders road, and over the frontier on to the cobbled Belgian highway. Of this British Expeditionary Force not a single man went ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1032 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REFUGEES POURING INTO PARIS Singing Tommies Cheered Them Up

... have been attacking harmless villages and in some places have dropped bombs on schools wilere children had assembled to be evacuated. Air raid alarms have been so frequent, they say. that they could not distinguish the warning from the all clear. A woman ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

B.E.F. COUNTER-ATTACK NEAR ARRAS

... al sector might turn out to be bridgehead for most serious movement against the prolongation of the wedge. The B.E.F. in Flanders, operating finely on the Scheldt, hold the German right, whose 6th Army is not, therefore, contributing much towards driving ...

THE HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER SATURDAY MAY 25 SATURDAY Policy of Honesty Might of Right The Expediency of Principle ..

... Colonel Keith Sykes home Thongs-bridge commissioned to the of Wellington’s Regiment 1914 and to the Holmflrth Company He served Flanders with the Battalion adjutant continuously from April 1915 to May 1919 the he continued to with the Battalion commanded tha ...

CALAIS STILL IN FRENCH HANDS

... in the region of Valenciennes to prepared positions. (3) The Germans continue to suffer terrific losses. In the Battle of Flanders they are throwing enormous quantities of human and material forces into the fight, regardless of wastage. In the Argonne ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ENEMY'S DIFFICULTIES

... the north is increasing in vlolestoe. said the official French military Commentator to-day. He isaid that in the Battle of Flanders the Germans were throwing enormous human and material forces into the fight. regardless of loaees. and were trying t o overwhelm ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CALAIS HELD DESPITE NAZI CLAIM

... defensive action, the French spontaneously evacuated •harp salient. On the Channel coast the Boulogne Citadel fell late yesterday afternoon, but this morning Calais wis still held the French. Enormous Losses -In Flanders the Germans are attacking regardless ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMANS WARNED

... that Losses Have Been Heavy The official German News Agency has stated that most of the British forces In position to be evacuated from Belgium have already embarked (saya British United Press). It also asserted that French attacks from the south In effort ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

1 n ffcemoriam

... factories engaged aeronautical work and the aerodromes attached them. THE QUEEN TALKS WITH FLANDERS YVOL.ADI Soldiers wounded in Northern France find Flanders yesterday told the how German 'planes attempted to bomb ship which brought them across the Channel ...

OVER THERE IN FLANDERS

... which the next few days will find an answer. We know with what bravery and skill the Navy has evacuated at Boulogne. We can be sure that if further evacuations are desirable equal courage and dexterity will be shown. But my view the war will be won or lost ...

Berlin and the Capitulation

... Several civilians were killed.— Press Association War Special. Evacuation The official German News Agency. In Its front report this evening, states that most tho British forces position to evacuated from Belgium have already embarked. In the Northern sector ...

if-1 HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER WEDNESDAY MAY 29 1940 BELGIAN ARMISTICE MAY BE SIGNED TODAY PEOPLE’S FURY WITH ..

... declaring that her suffering the which inflicted her by traitor “ She King “She not She Provisional LEOPOLD'S BROTHER Count of Flanders (brother Leopold) has been severely wounded and to have amputated to Rome radio quoting report Government including upright ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3516 | Page: 3 | Tags: none