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... greoath of the two great Empires who erat tor Freedom and Justice, not only but) for the World. welter of the happenings in and Flanders, the Norwegian ati has been overlooked, but cum bers We have good news, In the i Narvik as now in Allied len and the German ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1538 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

German Communique British Tank Attack Near Arras German High Command communique tor yesterday, dated from The ..

... and docks at 0 stand, Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Dieppe were euooeeetully attacked again by the German air loros. In Flanders the enemy still eflsrs strong resistance on the Scheldt to cover hie retreat * At Valenciennes our attack against the French ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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WHY LEOPOLD CANNOT REIGN

... of the enemy. 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 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Hon. Christopher Furness, of the Welsh Guards ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Public Share

... unconquerable endurance. This quality has had a heavy burden cast upon it, but we owe the men fighting so desperately in Flanders that civilian faith and fortitude should stand as firmly as theirs. The B.E.F. it must be remembered is not a beaten force ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1401 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... of difficulties up to the present was the concealment offered to those epemy units in the Scheldt area dykes and canals of Flanders offer splendid natural obstacles Further the bottleneck and Bapaume been narrowed by gallant French counterattacks in the ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 3187 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN HORDES HELD AS B.E.F. RETREATS

... lost 2.000 out of 5,000 mechanised units. GERMAN CLAIMS To-day's German official communique states: The great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there. _ Since yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

-‘ '' GRIMSBY EVENING TELEGRAPH MAY 23 1940 BLACK - OUT TIME 936 pm 416 am LIGHTING-UP TIME 106 pm

... ablaze” TOWN BLAZING FIERCELY A seaman one of the fhips to-dav said “After the first wave of enemy planes orders were given to evacuate the was blazing fiercely “Cargo boats damaged by faking local women and emldren Belgian refugees when the planes again appeared ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 4614 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2309 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EVENING TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 29 1940 PUBLIC THERE IS NOW DEMAND FOR TYPISTS Learn Shorthand and Typewriting ..

... one could be surprised at Mr Duff Cooper’s announcement that it will be necessary to withdraw the British troops from the Flanders position which they occupy difficult and hazardous task this so we must as the Prime Minister warned the House of Commons ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 3844 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

r4 EVENING TELEGRAPH TUESDAY MAY 28 1940 PUBLIC NOTICES THERE IS NOW DEMAND FOR TYPISTS Learn Shorthand ..

... with enemy aircraft the Royal Air Force has played magnificent the great battle which is now raging across the plains of Flanders Not a day passes without some new example of the skill and bravery of these men being revealed and fully substantiated Fighters ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4313 | Page: 4 | Tags: none