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GERMAN CLAIMS

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy’s hands. The port of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. important events on the southern front. The German air force also attacked aerodromes in the vicinity ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ALUM POMO= MITIIIIMIA. Ody OWN Is Osaka to Oss

... ;onus have Piton* In retire In the sea. and there eiwkavnur in maintain a perimeter defence under the nme• tit enemy bnlnher• Dunkirk held RA 1 , and Preach 'planes are drawee barrage , nr bomb altord pruiertunn 1.. i!.tr The t•ltuatu.m. httwe‘er. i• fraught ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Germany Announces Resumption of U-Boat Warfare

... blocked or otherwise eliminated.’ —P.A. War Special. GERMANY’S GREAT PLANE LOSSES Dunkirk Attack Costs 75 \ MESSAGE from Paris last night stated that aerial attacks on Dunkirk cost the Germans dear yesterday. The toll taken by Allied aircraft and anti-aircraft ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS

... damaged by bomb's. The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover. _ _ - German high speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk. _ _ - In general the activity of the Air Forces on both Meg wee limited by ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Wttfast ititgraph MOND.I Y. M.4l' 27. 1940

... ground firmly and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, both in men and material. It is reassuring to learn that Calais, Dunkirk. Ostend and Zeebrugge are strongly held by the Allies, though a French message admitted on Sunday that Boulogne is, for the ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHAT GERMANY IS TOLD

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy's hands.. The Port of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. No important events on the Southern Front.—Reuter. ROME 'NEWS FROM AFAR. 'The Soviet organ Izvestia ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THREE DESTROYERS SUNK

... warships and troop transports, which were to bring home the remainder of the beaten B-B.F. in the harbour and on the sea Off Dunkirk and Ostend. All branches the services joined in the attack, which was directed against more than 60 ships. Three warships ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUTCH LINER AT NEW YORK

... and east of France arrived in Paris by train to-day in a continuous stream- The contingent came mostly from the Ardennes, Dunkirk. Bethune, Hagebrouck, Lille, and Tourcoing. Well-organised arrangements had been made to receive the refugees and to send ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAINTAINED

... network of canals and ak the Herman I* War i mans —from ,ille region and army is. how- : *■ ,ng lie direction rt l,e a* nkirk Dunkirk r ' f,! picked Frer Firfct Army 1 of Mis-statements ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH TOWNS BOMBED

... ions, workshops and mines were attacked. bu». also .iviliau centres. Among Ihe place® attacked were Betlmne. | Choqu-s. Ixns Dunkirk. Nancy. Haze- k. (‘aktis. Aiblieville, Douleus. Alberti and Lyons. Forty four German ’planes were ought down French territory ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GENERAL PRIOUX

... their way of retreat the sea. General Prioux’s army is. however, slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp of Dunkirk from the Lille region. BRITISH ADMIRAL AND KING LEOPOLD Sir Roger Keyes. Admiral of the British Fleet, who. ns Special British ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REFUGEES STREAM INTO

... east of France arrived in Paris by Irani yesterday in a continuous stream. The contingent came mostly from the Ardennes, Dunkirk. Bethuue, Hazebrouck. Lille, and Tourcomg Well-organized arrangements had been made to receive the refugees and t° send them ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none