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... HUSH TUSH We are to be kept in ignorance of what is happening in France and Flanders, because if we were told the enemy might learn something he does not know. On top of this very thin excuse for concealing unpleasant facts, P,.8.C. speakers recite and ...
... Lille By (I . IS. EV Dai I Herald Diplomatic Correspondent QRIMLY, TENACIOUSLY AND WITH PERFECT DISCIPLINE, THE B.E.F. IN FLANDERS IS FIGHTING THE MOST DESPERATE RETREATING BATTLE IN THE ANNALS OF OUR ARMY. French Navy Rushes I nder incessant bombing ami ...
... military spokesman said that the number of troops evacuated had reached important proportions. Thousands of B.E.F. men kept on arriving i England. And on the other side of t Channel the evacuation went swiftly, unceasingly. Small boats were still ferr ...
... Army. In Flanders it was proved again and again that infantry could defend positions, even against armoured fighting vehicles and air !attack,' he continued. It was infantry who held the Dunkirk bridgehead and made it possible for, the evacuation to be carried ...
... 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- ...
... To Them The Laurels THE annihilating victory for which the Nazis hoped In Flanders is being snatched from their grasp. The evacuation of the B.E.F. and certain French units to this country is in full swing. The hazardous operation of re-embarkation and ...
... 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 ...
... Today the official dispatch is published of the Dunkirk Evacuation SOMEBODY called him the greatest sailor since Nelson. Certain it is that Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the man behind the evacuation of Dunkirk, knew the ways of men and ships and salt water ...
... 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 ...