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Italian Policy . Burning Question in Germany [ FROM OUR BALKANS CORRESPONDENT ] Via Zurich , Tuesday

... nullify the effects of Mr Eden's broadcast announcement on Sunday that four-fifths of the B . E . F . had already been evacuated from Flanders . Distortions , sarcasms , and inventions are being resorted to so as to represent the B . E . F . as decimated . ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRENCH OFFICERS HERE

... high officers of the French Navy and three French generals arrived at a south-east coast port yesterday with French troops evacuated from Dunkirk. They travelled to London to visit the Admiralty and War Office. The naval officers included Admiral Abrial ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

WAR IN THE AIR

... the whole firmament was black with enemy bombers, yet four-fifths of the Allied forces were evacuated. Still the wonder grows at the exploit of the evacuation. The Germans, who set their minds on a certain achievement and whose imagination, when they ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH AID FRENCH IN NEW BATTLE

... they lost 10,000 killed and 40,000 wounded. FLANDERS GALLANTRY. There is still no definite knowledge of the number French troops evacuated from Dunkirk the French themselves. All arrangements for the evacuation were on a 50-50 basis, and that was done as ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DOING OUR BIT

... DOING OUR BIT Sir,—When we read of the great exploits of our Army, Navy, and Ail- Force in the evacuation of Flanders and In other battles it does stir our hearts with pride and makes those of us at home feel we want to do our bit to bring peace and freedom ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... The fighting in France and Flanders is well within and we know how, in conformance with the general plan after the German break through, the British retreated steadily and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 103 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MET OFF DUNKIRK COINCIDENCE OF CAMPBELTOWN MEN

... amazing coincidence, told to-day by a Campbeltown man who took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders. 3 “ My ship was among the first to reach Dunkirk to begin the evacuation,” he said. “The sea close in shore was black with soldiers standing up ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Heroes of Dunkirk

... heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made sixty miles' tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went the King was impressed, he said, by the excellent health and spirits of the troops, after their ordeal in Flanders. The award of the D.S.O ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALLIES DEFY FORTY NAZI DIVISIONS

... Leopold's orders, and the troops under I them are still fighting side by side with the British and French in Flanders. The withdrawal and evacuation has been screened the R.A.F., who have been constantly in action, destroying over seventy enemy aircraft in ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BATTLE REVIEW

... become as historic as the unprecedented events with which it dealt. The telling of the story of the Battle of Flanders and the preat Evacuation was in the hands of one who is at once an acknowledged expert on military strategy, an authority on history, ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 660 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BELGIAN REFUGEES PASS THROUGH PARIS

... and had a long battle with Belgian troops Seeking Refuge Flanders. Streams of refugees are passing through Brussels from the provinces of Liege and Namur. They arc hoping find refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SOLDIERS ON THEFT CHARGE

... SOLDIERS ON THEFT CHARGE L./Cpl. Thomas White. who, it was stated, fought in Flanders and was evacuated from Dunkirk, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to-day in company with another soldier, Pte. James Burke. on a charge of theft. They admitted having ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 6 | Tags: none