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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 ...

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 ...

Same Fate As Nurse Cavell

... lls half a ton of scrap They were some of the un- has been made available. known heroines of the evacuation • • • • from Dunkirk. But they did not L.remain unknown to the G er mans.! It has been calculated that if we : Gabrielle was found out, betrayed ...

Alyth

... l. A plumber, he served his apprenticeship with D. Langlands & Sons. Queen Street, Forfar. The award is for gallantry at Dunkirk. Kilry Pulpit Chastge.—The Rev. J. Sibbald Clark. 8.D.. Alyth, conducted the service in Kilry Parish Church on Sunday evening ...

POLISH SOLDIERS SAY SCOTTISH FOLK ARE VERY KIND Mr Churchill A Great Favourite He A Good Man, Says One

... came the fall of France and the Poles, driven first from their homeland, and next from France, found themselves, after epic Dunkirk, on the friendly soil of Britain. Scots Are Very Kind I speak for all the Polish soldiers in this country when I say that ...

1116, WAR NEWS FROM DAY TO DAY

... Admiralty announced the loss cf ;ix naval trawlers during the evacua,wn from Trondheim I The British collier Brighton sank off Dunkirk following an explosion. The I 34 members of the crew were saved by a motor launch. Ten members of the ;crew were injured. ...