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NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION

... NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION BY NORMAN RILEY On the South-east Coast. Thursday night. BRITISH and French troops landing at ports along this coast to-night told an epic story of the B.E.F. evacuation of a Flanders port. During yesterday and last night ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Evacuation IVliracle Of Organisati

... Evacuation IVliracle Of Organisati By NORMAN RILEY ORITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS LANP I^ PORTS ALONG THE SOUTH-EAST | LAST NIGHT TOLD AN EPIC STORY OF EVACUATION OF A FLANDERS PORT. During yesterday and last night two h lay in the harbour,” a soldier told ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 492 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

EVACUATION BOMBS B.E.F. MEN ARRIVING IN THOUSANDS

... EVACUATION BOMBS B.E.F. MEN ARRIVING IN THOUSANDS (From a Special Correspondent.) At a South-East Port, Friday. S HORTLY after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders. British ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALLIES DEFY FORTY NAZI DIVISIONS

... Leopold's orders, and the troops under I them are still fighting side by side with the British and French in Flanders. The withdrawal and evacuation has been screened the R.A.F., who have been constantly in action, destroying over seventy enemy aircraft in ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BELGIAN REFUGEES PASS THROUGH PARIS

... and had a long battle with Belgian troops Seeking Refuge Flanders. Streams of refugees are passing through Brussels from the provinces of Liege and Namur. They arc hoping find refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HEROIC DEEDS BY B.E.F. IN FACE OF NAZI HORDES

... sunk off the Belgian coast three warships and sixteen transports which were to have evacuated the B.E.F. The German communique states:— The great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end with the annihilation of the British and French armies ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HONOUR FOR ADMIRAL ABRIAL

... ADMIRAL ABRIAL Admiral Abrial, who is in commang of the French naval forces which have peen assisting in the evacuation of the Alljed troops from Flanders. hatshbeen awarded t}t{w Grand Cross of the Legion of onour. Admiral Abrial was bogn at Realmont on December ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ON OTHER PAGES

... of school age for evacuation 6 ilr Duff Cooper said that Hitler • would never be asked to the conference seat which so long awaited him 1 Honours awarded to officers ana men of tlie Boyal Air Force , for bravery in France and Flanders , are given 10 ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOW Dk su 't CAME BACK “BI]IGHTY TO Indomitable Spirit of Weary Men

... LADEN WITH ALLIED TROOPS FROM FLANDERS. BRITISH, FRENCH, AND BELGIANS HAVE BEEN ARRIVING DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS. AS | WRITE THEY ARE STILL BEING LANDED IN THEIR THOUSANDS, AMD IT IS HOPED THAT MOST OF THE B.E.F. MAY BE EVACUATED, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFICULTIES ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EIRE'S DEFENCES . . ¦ ¦ - . ——?— - ¦ . - Mr de Valera on an Urgent Need DAIL'S LEAD TO FEOPLE DEFENCE OF ULSTER ..

... Government have decided to remove evacuated children from areas whether rural or urban , within approximately ten miles oi the coasts of Suffolk , Essex , and Kent , and part of Norfolk , and no more children will be evacuated to these areas . This decision ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1285 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

late Prime 3liuister

... to get worse before they could get better. And now, the titento struggoe. has ouncerged 'again on the ofd battlefields of Flanders. We are reminded of our prayers that were focussed on the fighttug lads 25 years ago; and certainly the gams prayers are ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 406 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EDITOR’S POST BAG LET’S GET A MOVE ON NOW

... urgent letter re evacuation that “the scheme will be put into operation only if &ir raids develop on a scale involving serious and continuing peril to the civilian population.” Why wait for that? Surely with our whole Army encircled in Flanders and the Germans ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 4 | Tags: none