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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

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

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

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... certtan distance propnately known as the Corudna L that the fleeing I are TT is stated aul 1 evacuation of 'lfirffrern France si that the troops from of evacuation and on. art not kilted troops are now becoming appropt !sprang German claims army is in disorder ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1116 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

''' - ' ' r-i:-: -— - LARGEST CERTIFIED NET SALE WEDNESDAY MAY 1940 Phone 58544 Mr! Henry: Smith KBOA

... came to be on the line No Evacuation of Children To The Dominions Mr Shakespeare asked in House of this afternoon whether he would approach Canadian and other Dominions Governments to if children' others to go could evacuated to Dominions said that apart ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1459 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OUR FLEET a SURE SHIELD

... very well be in a better position for fighting the war than we are at the moment. It must be remembered that our force in Flanders is an expeditionary force, and the maintaining of lines of communication for any form of expedition is one of the greatest ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 842 | Page: 4 | 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