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MANY SHIPS, FEW LOST

... sea Falling back from the Lille region and fighting fiercely, the French force is slowly retiring in the direction of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending south-west and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

comrades were in a French ship which struck a magnetic mine and sank, and he, after swimming for some time,

... magnetic mine and sank, and he, after swimming for some time, was the only one to be rescued, The beaches and sand dunes around Dunkirk have been alive with troops for the past three days waiting to be evacuated and being evacuated. At more and more frequent ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH ARMY HACKING ITS WAY OUT

... ARMY HACKING ITS WAY OUT Paris, Friday. Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly not only in the fortified area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded by flood waters, but also to the west of the Yser Canal, the French military spokesman stated ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HAWICK WOMAN'S ESCAPE FROM GHENT

... some bomb killed fifteen people, including two women and a child. From Ostend, Mrs Ser'ippons made journey+ to Dunkirk and Calais, again to Dunkirk, in an abet to bit-omeg* to this and finally wand a ipisee,ca She was one of the fortunate few to be taken ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMANS CLAIM 13 R.A.F. PLANES DOWN

... claimed that the port of Dunkirk destroyer was sunk by two direct hits by bombs of heavy calibre, which sufficed to sink her in a few minutes. Besides this a cruiser and merchantman were seriously damaged by bomb hits off Dunkirk. ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Palin i^-'tycanh

... the french official OIii'MUNIQUE. WAS BEING CARRIED f AT the price of very hard I TINC.” landing supplies for the fortified Dunkirk and the troops who hold overhead land and naval ’planes * petually in action. BATTLE alone last night a *IaI? T, ON of hurricanes ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 136 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F.'s EPIC FIGHT TO REACH COAST

... only 25 miles wide at its widest point. German troops advancing in northern r landers towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. Dunkirk is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its harbour has been destroyed. ' ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MOVE ON SOMME

... the road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied Command has never lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediately went out, “The British and French go on fighting.” The Belgian Army’s task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

u SHIPPING ( Continued )

... SHIPPING ( Continued ) GIBSON RANKING LINE LEITH TO , ItOTTEItDAM . AMSTERDAM , '' ANTWERP . GHENT ' . DUNKIRK , and KOUEN . GRASiUEMOUll TO DUNKIRK AND ROTTERDAM . For Particulars and Sailings and Freight Ratct please communicate with / G EORGE GIBSON ...

Published: Tuesday 07 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FLEET RAINS SHELLS ON NAZIS

... coast. Allied units an- holding the fortified area of Dunkirk and they were also still in possession of a part of Calais earlier yesterday evening. Military circles in Paris last night stated that Dunkirk has been transformed into an entrenched camp. ‘OUR ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 212 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOME FOR LEAVE AND WEDDING Angus Captain Tells of Ten-Hour Air Attack Captain David Chapel, second son of ..

... is home for a short leave. Captain L'haptl, who is in the Royal Artillery, left Dunkirk the week-end and arrived home yesterday morning. Seven hundred men, said, left Dunkirk at the same time. They were due to sail eight o'clock in the morning, but the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

40 GER _ MAA T DIVISIONS » Thrown Into Battle ALLIES' SLOW RETIREMENT

... the French Medical Corps on the way in which Allied iroops are being taken off ai Dunkirk . The officer , himself a member of the Northern Army who ivas embarked at , Dunkirk and landed at another French ' port , expressed the utmost admiration at the efficiency ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none