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EVACUATION OF CHILDREN

... EVACUATION OF CHILDREN TO DOMINIONS Government Seeking Practicable Scheme The Government are considering the offers received from the Dominions for the reception of children from this country for the period of the war. Mr. Shakespeare (Under-Secretary ...

ONE WHO PRAYED

... Scarborough, June 3. The Supreme Controller Sir. —It the conviction of thousands that the miraculous evacuation our troops from France and Flanders was the response Almighty God to national prayer. The facilities of transport hurriedly made, the smoothness ...

SCENES AT PORT DESCRIBED

... are arriving In large numbers, and Is still hoped that m::et the B.E.F. may be evacuated, although the difficulties and dangers Increase every hour. It Is. this mass evacuation 1s a stupendous feat, only made possible the dauntless efficiency of the Royal ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

The Dunkirk Retreat

... service France and were evacuated from Dunkirk. The Rev. V. D. Slddons, Methodist padre, who served a combatant the Northampton Regiment, and in the Flying Corps in the last war, gave some details of the evacuation from Flanders. Describing the retreat ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HEROIC DEFENDERS

... of the Allied navies and air forces, the work embarking the last heroic defenders who have covered the evacuation of the northern armies from Flanders Is going steadily forward, in spite of aerial bombing and bombardment by German long-range guns. The troops ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GERMANS WARNED

... that Losses Have Been Heavy The official German News Agency has stated that most of the British forces In position to be evacuated from Belgium have already embarked (saya British United Press). It also asserted that French attacks from the south In effort ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STUBBORN SELF-RESPECT

... M.s. 7s. from H.M.S. Repulse and £55 from the Royal Naval Bai racks at Devonport. ENGLAND'S FLANDERS.— The Dockland area of London to-day is the Flanders of England, said Alderman Thomas, chairman of Glamorgan County Council, at yesterday, expressing ...

G.C.B. FOR LORD GORT His Confidence in Victory Lord Gort. Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ..

... the King first-hand account of the Flanders battle during an audience at Buckingham Palace. Lord Gort's return was recorded by the War Office In this announcement:— As result the good progress made in the evacuation of the B.E.F. and the consequent reduction ...

MORE B.E.F. SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN LEEDS

... SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN LEEDS SCENES AT CITY STATION GREETINGS FROM CROWDS Yorkshire Postcard* From Train* in South Evacuated troops from Flanders continued to pour through Leeds night and to-day. Crowds *aw one large party, which arrived at City Station yesterday ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Compensation for Farmers

... told that during the early months of the war few complaints of the kind were received, but since the evacuation of the B.E.F. from France and Flanders, far larger numbers of Service men are moving about the country—many in small parties—and it has been ...