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ALIANT BRITISH IN EPIC STRUGGLE Hope That Withdrawal May Be Completed WNIFICENT HELP OF NAVY AND AIR FORCE ..

... 25 bombers. lie port of Dunkirk, described as a fortified camp, is held by Allied warships and Air Forces. Apparently at Dunkirk are assembled transport fuels for the evacuation of troops. iceording to the Paris spokesman, Dunkirk forms the port of a sort ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

yesterday or last night

... yesterday or last night The fortified area of Dunkirk. around which all the withdrawal operations we,re taking place, was continuing to resist solidly. It is now a kind of fortress, completely surrounded by water stretching for several kilometres like ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WITHOUT ANY

... WITHOUT ANY WARNING It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army in the north. The Belgian Army has now suddenly and unconditionally capitulated, in the midst of battle ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 173 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MACHINERY

... capitulated suddenly and unconditionally in the midst of battle, opening the Dunkirk road to the German divisions. The group of three Allied armies was being provisioned from Dunkirk. Leopold, this despicable King, only eighteen days ago, had appealed to the ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 207 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Towards the Sea

... defection, on the order of King Leopold, left the Allied • left wing in the air and opened the road to Ypres, to Fumes, and to Dunkirk. Showing in these grave circumstances indomitable resolution —to quote the words of last night's communique— they are ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

We Shall Go Back

... We Shall Go Back 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 frequei:t intervals German aircraft appear over them and drop bombs and fire ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

French Communiques

... of Ostend received from its King the order to cease fire. thus opening to the enemy the road to Ypres. to Furnes. and to Dunkirk. Since then our troops, under the command of General Blanchard and General Prioux, in close collaboration with the British ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 358 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Inundation Impeding the Germans

... Inundation Impeding the Germans 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: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 358 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COMMONS TOPICS

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Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY ITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE INTACT AND TOGETHER

... ONE PENNY ITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE INTACT AND TOGETHER Ostend . Dunkirk KENTIe.6, =C4/d% `l • ) o Coy i BRUSSELS Aiqt;. ‘ GI U or.. LILLE A ' • Tournai NAINuR '`Mons Lens e a se l 2 es tra Mad Nulls s , • • • sae AVeteS Aibe ..me Air. k, .. AMIN ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 87 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIGHTING

... loth' is an attempt to Allied armies there Possession of the V i t, hills, which .'een Cassel and th at of the region of of Dunkirk. both in the artehemleitiiieng Particularly of the Germans have the front the to have gained a of the Flanders Pocket the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 468 | Page: 1 | Tags: none