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BE EVACUATED

... BE EVACUATED WE SHALL GO BACK AND TURN THEM OUT” At a South-East Port, Friday. Shortly after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders (writes a Press Association correspondent ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 409 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Flanders Battle Nears

... Flanders Battle Nears THE great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end, with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there,” says to-day's German official communique. Since yesterday the British Expeditionary Force has ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Tjrand Cross of the Legion of Honour. 3 ONE PENNY. lMaa ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MOST MATERIAL

... the area in landing supplies and in the work of evacuation. British and French troops are reported to be still heroically holding on in Calais. Amplifying his earlier statement on the operations in Flanders, the French War Office spokesman said that the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Trek Through Brussels

... Trek Through Brussels There is no question yet of an official evacuation of Brussels, but messages from the Belgian capital tell of streams of refugees passing through the city from the Provinces of Liege and Namur. The refugees, carrying their possessions ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 148 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Getting Down To It

... enemy is proceeding. The development of the new Local Defence Volunteers, the plans for the evacuation of children from the coastal regions opposite France and Flanders, the drive against the Fifth Column,” and other administrative changes are all evidence ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Home-Coming

... adding to the epic. The Ministry of Information has sufficient evidence to speak of the successful progress of this crucial evacuation, screened so gallantly all through by the R.A.F. Anxiety must continue while the big battle still rages, and until the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON STATION SCENES

... LONDON STATION SCENES “SEND MORE PLANES” PLEA British troops evacuated from Flanders (see Page 6) were passing through London on their way to rejoin depots in a continuous stream to-day. The men said that the B.E.F. had inflicted casualties at the rate ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Line” Near The Coast

... SOUTH-EAST COAST TO-DAY, THEIR DECKS LADEN WITH ALLIED TROOPS FROM FLANDERS. BRITISH, FRENCH AND BELGIAN TROOPS ARE ARRIVING IN THEIR THOUSANDS, AND IT IS HOPED THAT MOST OF THE B.E.F. MAY BE EVACUATED, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS INCREASE EVERY HOUR ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1342 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ABLAZE

... up a heroic resistance late yesterday afternoon. At nightfall the fighting in many regions of the vast, thickly-populated Flanders plain was continuing as fiercely as ever, and it seemed likely to go on all night by the light of the innumerable fires blazing ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZI SAVAGERY BOMBERS ATTACK REFUGEES

... pouring into Paris. On Sunday afternoon a flight of five Dornier bombers attacked a train of Belgian refugees going towards Flanders. Bombs fell all round the train, which came to a stop. When their bombs had been used up the Dorniers returned, each of them ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN

... TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN MORE stories of the ordeals of the B.E.F. men, both before and during their evacuation from Dunkirk, and of the great work of the R.A.F. and Navy, wdiich made their escape possible, were told as more men, tired and hungry ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1038 | Page: 4 | Tags: none