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WAR NEWS FROM DAY TO DAY FRIDAY:

... the B.E.F. and French armies from Dunkirk. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY The official French communique confirmed that it had been possible to embark the greater part of the Allied, troops who fell back to the coast at Dunkirk. The territorial success attained ...

TUESDAY:

... Churchill told the House if ,Commons the full facts of the Flanders 'battles and the evacuation of the Allied forces from Dunkirk. A crowded House listened intently to an amazing story—a story of fine achievement and of miraculous deliverance. - but one ...

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... Normanby, who was serving with the Green Howards, is a prisoner of war. He was last seen at a casualty clearing station near Dunkirk. ...

SPORTS TOPICS i• • •

... pyjama suits, 30.000 dressing 'gowns, and tens of thousands of slippers was necessitated by the return of the troops from Dunkirk. the Red Cross and St John War Organisation have announce I. Recent fighting has resulted great losses of Red Cross material ...

MONDAY:

... German occupied territory. the R.A.F. bombed a basin at Ostend used as a base for enemy supply ships. The men of Flanders and Dunkirk-- nine divisions strong, brought out with little or no equipment—are now fully reorganised and at the disposal of the Com ...

The Stuff We Are Made Of

... giving is only in the gift of free men who believe in the cause for which they wcrk. Men use the machines. The spirit of Dunkirk is unbeatable, given the weapons our vic rkers are making. In days of trial and adversity, the British peop'e show (be stuff ...

MONDAY:

... stated that 222 naval vessels and 665 other British craft took part in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. This did not include the French naval and merchant ships which' took part. ...

THERE'S A PETER PAN TOUCH In Scotland's Defences

... by a roadway cut through the trees and named Bergues Bourevarde by the troops in memory of their sojourn in France and at Dunkirk, I began to have the feeling that Peter Pan had joined the Army. For in the dark shadows in the thick forest there were gypsy ...

MONDAY:

... with' unshaken morale, was fiercely battling its way to the coast. French naval forces firmly held the fortified area of Dunkirk open for the retreating troops. In the words of a message from the Kinq to th.• Commander-in-Chief. it is fighting with a ...

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940 By Faith

... fantastic and wicked faith that thir ruthless actions spring. To that faith we oppose another. What held us in the dark hour of Dunkirk and turned disaster into glory was our faith Faith in ourselves, in the destiny of the British people. Fait!) in our cause ...

A Sprig 0' Heather

... Heather. In a south coast hospital a Scottish soldier lay ill. Ile had been carried on a comrade's shoulders from the sands of Dunkirk, and for weeks he had hovered between life and death All that medical skill and gentle nursing could provide was his, but ...