Long Shots

... Government in any way that will win the war. NEWSREEL cameramen and newspaper men who returned from Flanders exchanged their experiences during the evacuation of Boulogne at an informal party held on Tuesday evening at the Berkeley Hotel. Although everything ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 922 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMAN HORDES HELD AS B.E.F. RETREATS

... lost 2.000 out of 5,000 mechanised units. GERMAN CLAIMS To-day's German official communique states: The great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there. _ Since yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER THURSDAY MAY 30 1940 fttotoi & aic 4jtliscclhincr FLEEING FROM NAZIS o ..

... gardener and caretaker with the Imperial War Graves Commission at Lizisokenth Cemetery Poperinghe in the Ypres 'district of Flanders He worked in one of the biggest cemeteries standing as a memorial to the men who sacrificed their lives in 1914-18 where ...

GRIM DRAMA WITHDRA

... to-day amid —as one “Tommy” di of bombs and machine-gun bul comrades in Flanders are grimly rearguard action against the Germ In England to-day there was arrivals from the evacuated seen several thousands. The French military spokesman said to-day Thai ...

39th WEEK OF WAR. King Leopold Orders Surrender. BRITISH CAPTURE OF NARVIK

... on Theeday night, said that it would be necessary to withdraw our Army in Flanders from its positions, but it would not be a defeated army that we should withdraw. The Evacuation of Boulogne. Vivid accounts by eye-witnesses have been published of the brilliant ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1734 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

B.E.F. MEN HOME

... B.E.F. MEN HOME ' It was officially announced to-day that many thousands of men from the BE F Flanders, with large numbers their French comrades, evacuated from Dunkirk, were landed in England yesterday. Speaking at Broadstairs on Thursday, Capt. H. H ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

rillEgrtrWM

... bombing and then inachine-gunning it. They set fire to the hospital and then machine-gunned the wounded as they were being evacuated. They also put the fire engines out Of action. The behaviour of the Norwegian nurses earned the highest admiration of the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1335 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE DAILY POST PRESTON: FRIDAY. MAY 31, 1940

... hazardous movements of the heroic British and French troops in their tenaciouslyfought rearguard actions and their evacuation from the Flanders coast. Some of the greatest and grimmest feats in military history have been and are being achieved as these forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THREE DEST

... crippled the operations of Who Who? Who? our Army in Flanders? ! News Chronicle.—The annihilating victory for which the Nazis hoped in | Flanders is being snatched from their ‘grasp. The evacuation of the B.E.F. ‘and certain French units to this country ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“Give Us More ’Planes”

... “Give Us More ’Planes” Many thousands 8.E.1. troops passed through London to-day from Flanders. Among them were a number of A.T.S. girls. The men told a reporter that the B.E.F. had inflicted casualties at the rate of at least five Germans to one British ...

SCENES ON ARRIVAL HOME

... Shortly after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders. British, French and Belgians have been arriving during the past few. days. It is late •in the forenoon as I telephone, and ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 1 | Tags: none