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FRENCH FIGHTING CLEAR

... and also to the unloading supplies and medical stores. Dealing with the evacuation Flanders, the spokesman said there is continual coming and going. Ships leave with the evacuated personnel and material and return with supplies of food, medical stores ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

GERMANS USING “VERDUN-UKE” TACTICS

... GERMANS USING “VERDUN-UKE” TACTICS •pHK Germans are throwinK enormous human and material forces into the Battle Flanders, regardless losses, and are trying to overwhelm the successive defence lines of the Allies, said the official French military commenUtor ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. IN FIGHTING WAY OUT OF NET

... Lord Oort's disposal, and even though it was being severely bombed remained reasonably possible to evacuate tne B.E.P. from it, even though the evacuation would have made Gallipoli lock easy. But the end Is not vet. The BE.P. and the French Army may succeed ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE DAILY POST PRESTON: FRIDAY. MAY 31, 1940

... hazardous movements of the heroic British and French troops in their tenaciouslyfought rearguard actions and their evacuation from the Flanders coast. Some of the greatest and grimmest feats in military history have been and are being achieved as these forces ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRITISH NAVY HAS DEFEATED HITLER (BY OUR DIPLOMATIC OORRESPONDENT)

... domination the seas. PUT TO PEELING ARMY POTATOES” crowd of vessels of every type and size came In to the beaches on the shore of Flanders and took away thousands of our men with their equipment. Meanwhile, the Navy kept away the submarines and the torpedo boats ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 940 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HOW NAVY WORKED UNDER “BLIZZARD OF BOMBS”

... Friday. SHORTLY after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come Into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders. British, French, and Belgians have been arriving during the past few days. It is late in the forenoon as I telephone, and ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 6 | Tags: none