Echoes and Gossip of the Day

... each ? Answers On Friday Ansxcers to Monday’s problems: 7.004. —l2 per cent. 7.005. —Four-fifths. 7.006. l% miles. * * * The Flanders Coast The desperate bid of the Nazis to reach the Belgian Channel ports, and the no less determined efforts of the Allies ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
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FRENCH REGAIN ARRAS

... along the Maginot Line there is nothing to report. Senlis Told Evacuation Unnecessary The population of Senlis, about 25 miles north-east of Paris, was warned to-day by Radio Paris that evacuation is quite unneces- sary. A message trom the Prefect of the Oise ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1456 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AIR ATTACK HORROR Machine-Guns Mow Down Refugees WOUNDED BOMBED

... COMMUNIQUE issued to-day by the French Admiralty states: “In the course of North Sea operations off the Dutch islands and Flanders coasts, we have lost the submarine Doris, the destroyer L’Adroit and the supply ship Le Niger. “The crews of the last-mentioned ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 656 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

-‘ '' GRIMSBY EVENING TELEGRAPH MAY 23 1940 BLACK - OUT TIME 936 pm 416 am LIGHTING-UP TIME 106 pm

... ablaze” TOWN BLAZING FIERCELY A seaman one of the fhips to-dav said “After the first wave of enemy planes orders were given to evacuate the was blazing fiercely “Cargo boats damaged by faking local women and emldren Belgian refugees when the planes again appeared ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 4614 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ORM!' ANS 0110,111111

... out from Portsmouth the parashootists will be mobilised In the country's cause. FURTHER EVACUATION PLANS Arrangementa have been made for a further evacuation of Reboot-children from Portsmouth should the necessity arise. In order to maintain contact ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: West Sussex Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1519 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

German Communique British Tank Attack Near Arras German High Command communique tor yesterday, dated from The ..

... and docks at 0 stand, Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Dieppe were euooeeetully attacked again by the German air loros. In Flanders the enemy still eflsrs strong resistance on the Scheldt to cover hie retreat * At Valenciennes our attack against the French ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1166 | Page: 3 | 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 ...

CONFIDENCE IN GRAVE HOUR

... our country and our Empire of our Allies, and above all the cause of freedom. A tremendous battle is raging in France and Flanders. The Germans, by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armoured tanks, have broken through the French defences ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1034 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCHEME FOR VISITS TO WOUNDED

... different from the last, when the wounded were so largely cared for in hospitals in France and Flanders. 44 This time every man who can possibly evacuated hospital in the United Kingdom is brought here. Hundred* of inquiries are reaching us for news ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATTACKED BY NAZI 'PLANES

... ATTACKED BY NAZI 'PLANES Cornishman And His Family FLANDERS ORDEAL Baby Saved By British Soldier \RRIVING at Penryn yesterday after a hectic flight from Flanders, bringing with them their two-months-old baby, a son aged 6, and a daughter aged 10, Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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 ...

SUNDAY SUN MAY 26 1940 Bey in Mobilises Britain's Working Man Power To PRICES RISING: —BUY NOW! i JOEL GALLERIES

... population the Germans are dropping from the air tracts printed in Norwegian giving a highly coloured version of the fighting in Flanders From personal observation of the effect of these leaflets on the people I can state that the Germans are wasting their time ...

Published: Sunday 26 May 1940
Newspaper: Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 4224 | Page: 12 | Tags: none