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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

GERMANS CLAIM BIG RAID OFF FLANDERS 19 Ships Alleged Sunk

... GERMANS CLAIM BIG RAID OFF FLANDERS 19 Ships Alleged Sunk A special announcement by the Get- I man limn Command which tt as read the °facial German wireless this morning, claims that strong units of the ' German Air Force yesterday evening : attacked ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Navy Is There HILE the great battle continues \ in Flanders thousands of men of the British Expeditionary Force

... battle continues \ in Flanders thousands of men of the British Expeditionary Force have already been extricated and are back in England. Al the news tells of the wonderful rearguard actions which covered the retreat and evacuation, and are still Going ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER FRIDAY MAY 31 1940 - FLANDERS BATTLE “FANTASTIC AND MERCILESS” BITTER FIGHTING SAYS ..

... Allies vie with each other in courage and tenacity” “This fantastic and merciless struggle which portion of French Flanders remnant of Flanders” the description applied to battle by M Morice (writing in Parisien ”) has written about of extermination never ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWSREELS LOSE EQUIPMENT IN FLANDERS BATTLES CAMERAS AND SOUND VANS BLOWN SKY-HIGH IN AIR RAIDS THOUSANDS OF ..

... NEWSREELS LOSE EQUIPMENT IN FLANDERS BATTLES CAMERAS AND SOUND VANS BLOWN SKY-HIGH IN AIR RAIDS THOUSANDS OF POUNDS WORTH OF VALUABLE EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN LOST BY THE NEWSREEL COMPANIES IN THE NAZI ONSLAUGHT ON FLANDERS, BUT HAPPILY FEARS FOR THE SAFETY ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 404 | Page: 3 | 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

‘CORUNNA LIN INTENSII

... division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders. Another estimate is that of M. de Kerillis, the well-known French war commentator, who says in the Epoque that more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders and that to these a third cr perhaps ...

GERMANS “ CORUNNA LINE” VERY LARGE ALLIED ARMY ALREADY OFF

... now holding at a certain distance from the Flanders coast a line which has become known as the Corunna Line. Behind it the evacuation of French and British troops from Dunkirk goes on. Figures of evacuation are not permissible but it is stated that they ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Allies’ Desperate Drive to The Coast

... they have gained a footing on the first of the Flanders Hills Mount Cassel Forty divisions more than 1.000,000 men—and almost the whole of her armoured divisions, have been flung by Germany into the Flanders battle. There is no confirmation of a German ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 1 | Tags: none