... have been accepted. In about a month’s time these are to be displayed in three iooms, together with selection of worts not evacuated with the bulk of the collection, illustrating aspects of nineteenth-century art. Recent acquisitions include bequest of modern ...

... and Namur in long files, fleeing before the pitiless bombing of the German air force. They are hoping to find a refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts, with women, children and old people sitting on top of hastily collected ...

... little notice.—Exchange. Paris, May 14 The division of the German Army attacking Sedan is occupying the town to-day—after the evacuation of civilians yesterday—it is learned from official sources. Advance German elements have pushed down to and along the Meuse ...

... South-East Coast port yesterday morning of a number of steamers laden with Allied troops from Flanders, a Press Association correspondent writes: This mass evacuation is a stupendous feat, only made possible by the efficiency of the Royal Navy, the Mercantile ...

... GERMAN EXPLANATION OF B.E.F. ESCAPE EVACUATION FACILITATED BY DENSE FOG COVER FOR “HEADLONG FLIGHT Berlin, May 31 Weather conditions over the Channel are hampering the operations of German aircraft against the evacuation of the 8.E.F., according to the official ...

... Press Association. UNITED STATES PRAISE FOR ALLIED ARMIES “A DEFEAT, BUT NOT A DISASTER New York, May 31 Evacuation of the Allied Armies from Flanders is recounted at great length in the New York Press to-day. A despatch to the New York Times ” from Berlin ...

... Foiled The German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by rising flood waters, which Allied engineers have loosed over the Flanders Plain, redoubled its efforts to-dav to cut off the French rearguard fighting its way to the coast. This force—part of General ...

... from which children were evacuated schools will not be opened from to-day. In other evacuation areas where registration has been going on during the weekend the schools will continue to be open for the time being. If evacuation should ordered they will ...

... ULTIMATUM Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for War, broadcasting last night, announced that more than four-fifths of the in Flanders have been embarked and saved. { apart from what the French had done for their own been able to bring tens of thousands of our ...

... were installed.—Reuter. KILLED AFTER SURVIVING PERILS OF BATTLE TWO B.E.F. MEN IN ROAD ACCIDENTS After returning safely from Flanders, Sapper A. Rutherford died on Saturday in military hosipital in the south of England from injuries received on Friday night ...

... economic war effort. BELGIAN TROOPS FIGHTING IN FLANDERS SECOND CORPS ATTACHED TO THE B.E.F. Paris, June 2 A second Belgian Army corps, commanded General Desfontaines, is fighting with the Allies in Flanders, according to the Petit Journal.” The newspaper ...

... use. am surprised there is so little recoil.” In another part of the factory his Majesty saw rifles which had arrived from Flanders only early that morning being overhauled. Mr. Herbert Morrison said afterwards how' grateful he was to the King for going ...