EMBARKATION OF ALLIED TROOPS AT DUNKIRK B.E.F. GETTING OUT OF TRAP

... gained footing on the first of the Flanders —Mount Cassel. the bottom of the pocket the French army, commanded by General Rene Our fighter planes, which together with our bombers attacked the enemy evacuation action, brought down 68 enemy aircraft ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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

Allies’ Desperate Drive to The Coast

... they have gained a footing on the first of the Flanders Hills Mount Cassel Forty divisions more than 1.000,000 men—and almost the whole of her armoured divisions, have been flung by Germany into the Flanders battle. There is no confirmation of a German ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS CLAIM 19 SHIPS SUNK

... NAZIS CLAIM 19 SHIPS SUNK BIG RAID OFF FLANDERS A special announcement by the German High Command, which was read over the official German wireless to-day, claims that strong units of the German Air Force yesterday evening attacked British warships ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

The Home-Coming

... adding to the epic. The Ministry of Information has sufficient evidence to speak of the successful progress of this crucial evacuation, screened so gallantly all through by the R.A.F. Anxiety must continue while the big battle still rages, and until the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATTLING THROUGH MANY SAFELY HOME

... parents ,o register their children for evacuation under the Government scheme. The Government said, feel that the risk early bombing so real that they must now make as complete aa possible plans for the evacuation of children. Troops pasting through Longen ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 2053 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON STATION SCENES

... LONDON STATION SCENES “SEND MORE PLANES” PLEA British troops evacuated from Flanders (see Page 6) were passing through London on their way to rejoin depots in a continuous stream to-day. The men said that the B.E.F. had inflicted casualties at the rate ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 10 | 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

COMING HOME

... considerable numbers among the members of the B.E.F, who have been transported back to England from the historic battlefield of Flanders, So skilfully is this difficult operation of retirement and embarkation being carried out that Britain and France can regard ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 353 | Page: 6 | Tags: none