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B.E.F. COUNTER-ATTACK NEAR ARRAS

... al sector might turn out to be bridgehead for most serious movement against the prolongation of the wedge. The B.E.F. in Flanders, operating finely on the Scheldt, hold the German right, whose 6th Army is not, therefore, contributing much towards driving ...

CALAIS HELD DESPITE NAZI CLAIM

... defensive action, the French spontaneously evacuated •harp salient. On the Channel coast the Boulogne Citadel fell late yesterday afternoon, but this morning Calais wis still held the French. Enormous Losses -In Flanders the Germans are attacking regardless ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | 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

1 n ffcemoriam

... factories engaged aeronautical work and the aerodromes attached them. THE QUEEN TALKS WITH FLANDERS YVOL.ADI Soldiers wounded in Northern France find Flanders yesterday told the how German 'planes attempted to bomb ship which brought them across the Channel ...

Berlin and the Capitulation

... Several civilians were killed.— Press Association War Special. Evacuation The official German News Agency. In Its front report this evening, states that most tho British forces position to evacuated from Belgium have already embarked. In the Northern sector ...

EMBARKATION OF ALLIED TROOPS AT DUNKIRK B.E.F. GETTING OUT OF TRAP

... gained footing on the first of the Flanders —Mount Cassel. the bottom of the pocket the French army, commanded by General Rene Our fighter planes, which together with our bombers attacked the enemy evacuation action, brought down 68 enemy aircraft ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Entrenched Camp

... flags.-—Press Associatloln War Special. EVACUATION OF CHILDREN More May be Moved Next Week the view of the Government It may necessary to start some time next week the evacuation of school children from evacuation areas other than the East and South- East ...

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

GIVE US MORE •PLANES

... MORE •PLANES B.E.F. Demand HEAVY CASUALTIES AMONG GERMANS Many thousands of B.E.F. troops passed through London to-day from Flanders. Among them were a number of A.T.S. girls. A reporter was told that the B.E.F. had inflicted casualties at the rate of at ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Experienced Nazi Methods

... go. They were undaunted. Alive With 'Plane** A party of E.AJd.C. men who arrived this morning described their evacuation from the Flanders beaches. They were taken off the sands by boats transports. The sky was alive with enemy •planes. said one man ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE GALLANT REARGUARD

... should saved. _ « they make their desperate attempt escape they can be assured that every possible gun the ships covering the evacuation, and possible -plsne that can be spared will be hammering the Germans bring about this final and complete triumph. Steamers ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MORE BLOWS AT NAZI AIR FORCE

... MORE BLOWS AT NAZI AIR FORCE R.A.F. Bag At Least 70 The Air Ministry announces: Air Force fighters continue screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-east Coast France. Further reports show that during yesterday enemy aircraft were destroyed ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 6 | Tags: none