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FLANDERS BATTLE

... FLANDERS BATTLE Nearly All Nazi Armoured Divisions Batter at B.E.F. in Their Retreat to Sea, But R.A.F. are Smashing Them as Grim Battle Goes on WITH heavy fighting, most violent on the Yser and in the neighbourhood of Cassel, the British and French retreat ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1481 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IN FLANDERS Nazis Say Part of B.E.F. Embarked: Surrender

... IN FLANDERS Nazis Say Part of B.E.F. Embarked: Surrender of 300,000 Belgians DRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS IN FLANDEBS ARE FIGHTING ON “WITH THE SAME RESOLUTION,” IN SPITE OF THE INCREASED PRESSURE THROWN AGAINST THEM THROUGH THE LOSS OF THE BELGIAN ARMY’S ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

r1 THE LEICESTER MERCURY FRIDAY 31st MAY - 'From Page One Dunkirk A Fortress With Qigantic Moat evacuation it is

... the' only one rescued- The beaches and sand diines aiound alive With Iroons for the past three days waitine to evacuated and being evacuated At more and more frequent intervals German aircraft appear over them and dron and fire their machine-suns troops ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1627 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

May 29, 1940 (270 th Day)

... from next Monday, unless they have a police permit. May 30, 1940 (271 st Day) Large numbers men from the B.E.F. in Flanders, evacuated from Dunkirk, land in England . . Tell how enemy machine - gunned women and children . . . Warships, aiding Allied armies ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FROM PAGE ONE Allies Facing Mad Onslaughts

... Other attacks took place in the region ot Valenciennes where, after victorious defensive action, the French spontaneously evacuated a sharp salient. - - On the Channel coast the Boulog n e citadel fell late yesterday afternoon, but this mornin Calais was ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 409 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LATE NEWS

... kirk to German p ftir f / German losses far as they firmed amounte ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Refugees Pour Into Paris

... been attacking harmless villages, and in some places have ' dropped bombs on schools, where children had assembled to be evacuated. Air raid alarms have been so frequent, they say, that they could not distinguish the warning from The Allclear. A woman ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MOST OF ARMY MAY GET AWAY

... MOST OF ARMY MAY GET AWAY EVACUATION UNDER BOMB-BLIZZARD after dawn to-day I watched number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders, writes special correspondent. British, French and Belgians have been ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 682 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. MEN COM MOST MAY CE

... 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 Intervals German aircraft appear over them and drop bombs, and fire their machine-guns ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 469 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BELGIAN REFUGEES' FORTITUDE

... Provinces of Liege and Namur, fleeing before the pitiless bombing of the German Air Force. They are hoping to find a refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts with women, children and old people sitting on top of their hastily ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 6 | Tags: none