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... three fighting forces on both sides has been splendid. The outcome has been the successful evacuation of many men of the 8.E.F., leaving the fields of Flanders to flood and fire and the invader. Leaving a commano post is General Weygand. Commander-in- ...
... MILES OUTSIDE DUNKIRK, A FORCE OF A BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS BEGAN THE FINAL REARGUARD ACTION OF THE GREAT RETREAT FROM FLANDERS. The latest weapons of warfare—guns, tanks, armoured units, machine-gun units, and everything the enemy can command—are closing ...
... perspective. Mr. Churchill once wrote of the skilful evacuation of the Dardanelles, This consummation was acclaimed by the shallow and the uninstructed as if it had been a victory. The retreat from Flanders has been a superb, heroic piece of work, and the ...
... France had an incredibly difficult and thankless task to COMKADES-IN-ARMS BROUGHT FROM FLANDERS PACKED LIKE SARDINES. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FRENCH TROOPS WERE EVACUATED WITH OUR OWN. (G.P.U.) perform. This it played to perfection, in executing a rapid advance ...
... 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 ...
... we have been warned to steel ourselves for heavy tidings. We cannot guess at this hour how many of our men will be evacuated from Flanders, how many will be killed or wounded in the unequal struggle. But while we wait, we can apply our mindt and our energies ...
... come home from the Flanders inferno. The woman was modestly dressed, but an oLlooker calculated she must have given away at least £2O during the time he himself looked on. y 343,000 London Children Have Not Been Registered for Evacuation h tragic :Anaor ...
... With the quays packed with naval vessels lying moored three deep, further vessels continue to arrive full of troops from Flanders. These men are getting their first sight of England after withstanding almost superhuman hardships in their long battle ...
... HAD SLEPT PERHAPS FOR TOO LONG. And won't it mean something, too, for the future development of the minds of these little evacuated children, that they should have had such a wonderful experience of the essential kindness of men and women ? The TENDERNESS ...
... safety. We are proud of them. But now that the evacuation is almost completed, let us give a special thought to the French. Had it not been for the tenacity and self-sacrifice of the poilu the story of Flanders would have had a much more tragic ending for ...
... have to be evacuated, but steps are being taken to prevent streams of refugees and evacuees from clogging the main roads Local •authorttieT personnel and Local Defence Volunteers may be required to checa any oanic movement The lesson ot Flanders and France ...
... within the ..is. 1 meaning of the Act. Flanders Leave Instructions had been issued, said Mr. Eden, Secretary for War, for a free travelling warrant to be granted for the leave given to men es- who were evacuated from ports 'lf north of the Somme on or ...