... GREAT BATTLE HAS BEGUN THE GREAT FLANDERS BATTLE HAS BEGUN. THE GERMANS ARE ABOUT TO MAKE THEIR SUPREME EFFORT TO BREAK THROUGH THE ALLIED ARMIES. This was stated in London this morning. The British and French soldiers and airmen, facing their greatest ...

... s h e ll s an d a fierce infantry attack, the Germans last night and this morning launched the first big onslaught in the Flanders battle. British troops, under fire on a serious scale for the first time, stood the test magnificently, and although they ...

... EVACUATED GIRL IS TAKEN FROM INVALID AN elderly retired Army officer successfully applied to Eastbourne billeting appeal tribunal yesterday for a thirteen-year-old girl to be moved from his house. He said: I have a large house and three servants. I ...

... percentages compare with an average of 8.3 per cent. for all evacuation areas when the registration was taken in March. Three of the Medway towns—Chatham, Gitlingham and Rochester — were evacuated in September, and a number of children from these towns are ...

... military spokesman said that the number of troops evacuated had reached important proportions. Thousands of B.E.F. men kept on arriving i England. And on the other side of t Channel the evacuation went swiftly, unceasingly. Small boats were still ferr ...

... week, since Hitler had thrown All his iarmoured divisions—ten to twelve—into the Flanders battle. The Bremen radio, in English, said that as Germany attacked in Flanders to thwart the Anglo-French plan to attack the Ruhr district, she was not likely ...

... BURN 20 IN BOAT GERMAN airmen, in their fury at their failure to stop the embarkation of the Allied troops withdrawn from Flanders, set fire to the sea to kill a score of men in a rowing boat. The men had found the boat ashore on Saturday while waiting ...

... has been wounded in Flanders. He is thirty. FLANDERS SOLDIER TOOK CAR IN BID TO SEE WIFE Lance-Corporal Clifford Edward Williams, twenty-five, a Guardsman, whose home is in South Wales, is one of the B.E.F. evacuated from Flanders. Unable to get leave ...

... BLOCK PORTS TO ENEMY IN the greatest naval feat in historythe evacuation of vast numbers of Allied troops from Flanders—it is now revealed that: Zeebrugge has been blocked by the sinking of concrete-filled blockships. Other ports now in enemy hands have ...

... Campbeltown (Scotland) man who forced down, after he himself had ► took part in the evacuation of the shot down several enemy aircraft, he HELP WAN 5 • B.E.F. from Flanders. quickly realised that it would be fatal to wear his uniform. . • THE WAR My ship ...

... IN EVACUATING THE ALLIED ARMIES FROM FLANDERS. A week ago he feared that 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked. Instead the thousand ships carried over 335,000 men, French and British, out of the jaws of death. This triumph of evacuation was gained ...

... LADY WIT ustained records. A Dunkirk, nurses, shadow soldiers, ,aved. French in Dunkirk Fought to the End In the evacuation of Dunkirk, it was explained yesterday, British troops held the Corunna Line while their comrades and the French passed through ...