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’PLANES

... advising them to? return to Britain. If they cannot find a means of leaving the country, they arete report to a rendezvous for evacuation^ ALLIES' ADVAME Belgians Strew Roads With Flowers (From a British United Press Correspond dent with the 8.E.F.) British ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
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AIR ATTACK HORROR Machine-Guns Mow Down Refugees WOUNDED BOMBED

... COMMUNIQUE issued to-day by the French Admiralty states: “In the course of North Sea operations off the Dutch islands and Flanders coasts, we have lost the submarine Doris, the destroyer L’Adroit and the supply ship Le Niger. “The crews of the last-mentioned ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 656 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

VALUE or NARVIK

... The Allied victory at Narvik and the firm attitude of king Haakon will tend to bring more and more young men to the North. Flanders Battle The Allied armies in the pocket in the North-West corner of France have still a port at their disposal. They are receiving ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 506 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

F mt this to of reg critici demn: faltere leader It m had to testing well-m existed The and that

... Victorianism.” There was more than a modicum of truth in that observation. We looked back when we should have looked forward. Flanders Crisis There is no use denying any of these things. History will record them, and students in the future will look back with ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ALLIES FIGHT WITH CLOSE UNITY

... was no sign of the third. Steadiness Unequalled It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders a combined Allied operation, during which the British and French are working in the closest unity with a steadiness never ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIGHT STUBBORNLY Enemy Tries To Mine Coast

... Fighting with a steadiness never excelled in military history. Allied troops are continuing their grim rearguard action in Flanders. THOUSANDS British troops continued to arrive in England to-day, and Estimates of the number who have returned vary from ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 350 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Withdrawal goes on as allies

... this country.” R.A.F. Screen Operations The Air Ministry announced to-day: “Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East Coast of France. “Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FOURTH ROUND

... Argentina masses of printed propaganda prepared by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. Evacuation Defied Air Blitzkrieg IT'ROM a military point of view the evacuation from Flanders —most difficult of all tasks—.has been carried out with great success against the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 379 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

huge losses

... huge losses all the beaches in the Dunkirk area 'vh ' embarking the last heroic defenders have covered the evacuation of the * arm * rom Flanders is proceeding adJiy under the protection of the Allied . *es and air forces. ermans seem to have given up ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1220 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MURTON PRESENTATION

... Lodge. Alnwick Mourns Duke Killed In Flanders A LNWICK was a town of mourning to-day for the Duke of Northumberland, who, as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed the thick of the rearguard action Flanders. Flags were flown half-mast from public ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 479 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALL PLAY THEIR PART

... applicable to the present day. This week alone duke, an earl, and a viscount have appeared in the British casualty lists from Flanders, proving once more that democracy stands for all of us. It also testifies the falsity of the one-time jibe that the rich ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 372 | Page: 4 | Tags: none