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The Russian Enigma

... have been accepted. In about a month’s time these are to be displayed in three iooms, together with selection of worts not evacuated with the bulk of the collection, illustrating aspects of nineteenth-century art. Recent acquisitions include bequest of modern ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1297 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Trek Through Brussels

... Trek Through Brussels There is no question yet of an official evacuation of Brussels, but messages from the Belgian capital tell of streams of refugees passing through the city from the Provinces of Liege and Namur. The refugees, carrying their possessions ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 148 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZI SAVAGERY BOMBERS ATTACK REFUGEES

... pouring into Paris. On Sunday afternoon a flight of five Dornier bombers attacked a train of Belgian refugees going towards Flanders. Bombs fell all round the train, which came to a stop. When their bombs had been used up the Dorniers returned, each of them ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

German Claims

... and Namur in long files, fleeing before the pitiless bombing of the German air force. They are hoping to find a refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts, with women, children and old people sitting on top of hastily collected ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1177 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

With the B.E.F. in Belgium, May 14

... little notice.—Exchange. Paris, May 14 The division of the German Army attacking Sedan is occupying the town to-day—after the evacuation of civilians yesterday—it is learned from official sources. Advance German elements have pushed down to and along the Meuse ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 757 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

lies Column Ready

... victory.” Some idea of the scene at Cambrai is drawn by a British United correspondent who saw the whole civilian population evacuated within six hours, despite the destruction of one of the railway stations. Over the scene of battle, masses of German and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1202 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Getting Down To It

... enemy is proceeding. The development of the new Local Defence Volunteers, the plans for the evacuation of children from the coastal regions opposite France and Flanders, the drive against the Fifth Column,” and other administrative changes are all evidence ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Flanders Battle Nears

... Flanders Battle Nears THE great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end, with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there,” says to-day's German official communique. Since yesterday the British Expeditionary Force has ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MOST MATERIAL

... the area in landing supplies and in the work of evacuation. British and French troops are reported to be still heroically holding on in Calais. Amplifying his earlier statement on the operations in Flanders, the French War Office spokesman said that the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ABLAZE

... up a heroic resistance late yesterday afternoon. At nightfall the fighting in many regions of the vast, thickly-populated Flanders plain was continuing as fiercely as ever, and it seemed likely to go on all night by the light of the innumerable fires blazing ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

■jp,

... Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Tjrand Cross of the Legion of Honour. 3 ONE PENNY. lMaa ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN

... TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN MORE stories of the ordeals of the B.E.F. men, both before and during their evacuation from Dunkirk, and of the great work of the R.A.F. and Navy, wdiich made their escape possible, were told as more men, tired and hungry ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1038 | Page: 4 | Tags: none