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Great Ravages

... all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied Forces in Flanders. Nazis Difficulties The rest the front is relatively calm j The upper Somme is securely held the French ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS’ DESPERATE Infantry “Mowed Down” in Massed Attacks evacuation CONTINUES FRENCH STEM BIG RAIDS ON THE ..

... NAZIS’ DESPERATE Infantry “Mowed Down” in Massed Attacks evacuation CONTINUES FRENCH STEM BIG RAIDS ON THE SOMME NIGHT & DAY THE Germans have launched a supreme effort to capture Dunkirk, hurling masses of infantry through flood waters in successive attacks ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 696 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NO CAUSE FOR FEAR

... the quays channel rescue boats which they could not reach *• i * 'xhis !s the 'ixth dav of the evacuation 1 A Cheshire regiment is spoken of with from Flanders. The new • arrivals- are ' bated breath.by veterans in other units reorouard who fought stubbornly ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 536 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Line Up With the Nazis

... Most of the people opened their homes to the men for Sunday dinner and tea. From almost all the cent re* where soldiers from Flanders ami France spent Sunday come reports indicating how insistent the men were having a church parade on Sunday morning, even ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Satire and Fantasy

... said believed in miracles. The evacuation from Dunkirk is a miracle. Wales Does Well Wales has risen wonderfully to the occasion in its reception both of battlescarred soldiers straight from Flanders and France and of evacuated schoolchildren. Glowing testimony ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 956 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Welsh News in Brief

... Nelson, who fell off a pony's back and died without recovering consciousness. Reunited in Wales. -Private Harry Smith, evacuated from Flanders, reached his home at Folkestone Sunday few hours after his daughters, aged seven, five, and four, had left for South ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 714 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITHDRAWAL OF B.E.F. A TRIUMPH OF allied power “Will Surprise the World” ZEEBRUGGE AGAIN BLOCKED: OTHER PORTS ..

... almost every type of seagoing craft—took part in the evacuation. FILL STORY—PAGE 5. SUCCESS GREATER THAN WE DARED HOPE THE KING A moving message of admiration and sympathy for the Heroes of the Flanders rearguard battle has been received from the King by ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 733 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRODUCTION

... Britain had Sceptical About worked together as one man in the evacuation from Flanders, from which four-fifths of the B.E.F, had returned. A much less proportion of the French would be evacuated, for the French had been in the rearguard. Still, with Britain ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 773 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HEROIC RESISTANCE TO LAST

... rearguard defenders kept the Germans at bay and prevented them from interfering with the evacuation, exceot with their aircraft and heavy the soldiers from Flanders are already on the front stretching from the Somme to the Rhine -Press Association War Special ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 397 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

M.P.s and Foreign Diplomats Stirred By Dunkirk Story

... M.P.s and Foreign Diplomats Stirred By Dunkirk Story RAF.’s Big Part in Evacuation Emphasised By Premier- Home Defence Measures—Dividends Bill Withdrawal 176, Fleet-street, E.C. 4, LONDON, Tvssday Night. MR. CHURCHILLS detailed story of the events which ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1501 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Britain

... peace salion from Flanders, glorious was not victory, but a ■ glorious episode, and it was uty of all to make a maxifor final victory, andant expressed his thanks rv. helming kindness shown by this country to the French had been evacuated from claimed for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NEW OFFENSIVE . The new enemy offensive which began dawn yesterday on front extending from the coast to point

... the sea we shall be able to reinforce it tremendously indeed have not already done so. Eventually the whole force evacuated from Flanders will find their way back into the new fighting line which in many of its sectors is identical with that firmly held ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 382 | Page: 4 | Tags: none