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Reported Attack on 60 Ships

... bombs. Thirty-one ships were hit. Some of them were rendered unnavigable and others were set on fire. The sluice gates at Dunkirk harbour were destroyed and the harbour docks emptied. German fighter 'planes attacked enemy 'planes which were covering the ...

Germans Bomb Hostel

... Germans Bomb Hostel At Dunkirk they went a Salvation Army hostel for what they thought would be good night's sleep. She had just got undressed when the Germans started bombing the place. was the most frightful experience I have ever had, she said. My ...

CALAIS HELD DESPITE NAZI CLAIM

... Germans have advanced almost as far as Ypres in the Menin area, and that they have captured Calais after a grim fight. Dunkirk, it is claimed, was destroyed by fire. The French Military Spokesman said to-day that the German losses were enormous on ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GERMAN COMMUNIQUE Successful Attacks on Channel Ports BERLIN, Wednesday To-day's German communique stated: ..

... Channel coast was continued yesterday North-Westward St. Pol and Montreuil-«ur-Mer. The harbour and docks at Ostend. Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again by the German air force. In Flanders the enemy resisted toughly cover ...

given In a broadcast by M. Reynaud, the French Prime Minister, at 8.30 a.m. France can no longer count

... Army and the British Army are now fighting alone against the enemy in the North. M. Roynaud pointed out that the road to Dunkirk—through which the three Allied Armies In the North received their supplieshad been opened to the German divisions. Paris ...

Berlin and the Capitulation

... Bourbourg—are in German hands. The German air force bombed the communication lines leading to Zeebrugge, Nieuports, Ostende and Dunkirk well the ports and ships in the ports. An enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover. On the Southern front ...

B.E.F. IN DANCER OF BEING CUT OFF FROM SEA

... Belgium in answer to King Leopold's own urgent appeal for aid, are in danger of being cut off from their Channel base at Dunkirk. The Belgian Premier this afternoon declared in a broadcast over the French radio that the Belgian Government had no part ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 542 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A CRAVEN KING

... Albert, surrendered his army and his country to the enemy early this morning and thus opened the Way lor Qerman divisions to Dunkirk. This inglorious act, of bitter consequence to the British and French armies who answered this same King's call for help only ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

British

... Three enemy planes were shot down anti-aircraft fire. Two merchant ships 5,000 and 2,000 tons were sunk between Calais and Dunkirk by bombs. A German U-boat sank an enemy submarine, and a German armed speed-boat sank an enemy destroyer The situation in ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 523 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S COMMUNIQUES French Itoemy pressure continue* the direction the coast the form raids small motorlsed ..

... Channel coast was continued yesterday north-westward Bt. Pol and Montreullaur-Mer. Tbe harbour and dock, Ostend, Calais, Dunkirk. Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again the German air force Flanders the enemy resisted toughly cover their ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THIS WORLD OF OURS

... traffic. Such the woodpecker's substitute for song. does not seem beyond the scope at modern dance band. Battle of the Dunes DUNKIRK name with Scotch sound about it —a name one would hardly expect to find designating town in the North of Fra ice. Its French ...

Removing railings from Woodhouse Moor for the scrap metal campaign

... managed to reach the French border, from whence the great trek of refugees began when the frontier was opened. We got train to Dunkirk, where we managed to get car. but we were forced to beg borrow, or steal petrol. After Rouen the road was one solid stumbling ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 7 | Tags: none