... bulk of the city's civilian population has been evacuated in carts, bicycles, cars, and afoot. If the city was heavily shelled in to-day's fighting the library, a landmark for miles in the flat Flanders plain, has probably been demolished. When I saw ...

... London Filling Up London's population, which suffered a decline last September through evacuation, is growing rapidly owing to the influx of refugees from the Low countries. Children who have been sent away from London to reception areas on the South ...

... sure. ★ ★ ★ MR. F. CROSS RETURNS I hear that Mr. F. Cross is returning in June to Brentford from the South Coast, where was evacuated at the commencement of war. This will mean that Brentford is to lose ten new friends who have come to regard the old town ...

... determined and how very nearly successful was this fight is described in thriling despatch published to-day on Page 7. IN FLANDERS frontier, where the Germans have been advancing through the Belgian Ardennes, one German mechanised column pushed forward ...

... GREAT BATTLE HAS BEGUN THE GREAT FLANDERS BATTLE HAS BEGUN. THE GERMANS ARE ABOUT TO MAKE THEIR SUPREME EFFORT TO BREAK THROUGH THE ALLIED ARMIES. This was stated in London this morning. The British and French soldiers and airmen, facing their greatest ...

... armies hammered at Nancy and Epinal. The Third Army went through Dinant, Mezieres, and across the River Aisne. Soon Lille was evacuated. the French Army ; battalions were cut to pieces. Gun crews fought until no one was left to put shell in breach. Rhelms and ...

... estimated that the Nazis have lost 1,000 since they invaded the Low Countries. DUTCH ISLANDS EVACUATED THE ISLANDS OF BEVELAND AND WALCHTEREN HAVE BEEN EVACUATED, IT WAS LEARNED LONDON EARLY THIS MORNING. Both islands, including the towns of Middelburg ...

... AS BETWEEN BELGIUM AND THE UNITD KINGDOM ON THE OTHER HAND. Learned in London last night that yesterday’s operations in Flanders have gone much according to expectation. Operations now in progress make It clear enemy is now about to put forth supreme ...

... success I am sure. MR. F. RtURNS I hear that Mr. F. Cross is returning in June to Brentford from the South Coast, where he was evacuated at the commencement of war. This will mean that Brentford is to lose ten new friends who have come to regard the old town ...

... and contact with the enemy has been maintained throughout the day.” It was leamt officially in London that operations in Flanders have gone much according to expectation. The operations now in progress make it clear that the enemy is about to put forth ...

... little notice.—Exchange. Paris, May 14 The division of the German Army attacking Sedan is occupying the town to-day—after the evacuation of civilians yesterday—it is learned from official sources. Advance German elements have pushed down to and along the Meuse ...

... France flows a pitiful stream of refugees—women, children, and old men. Civilians from the battlefront have been compulsorily evacuated- Some were bombed by the Germans as they left lorries end cars. There has, in addition, been a voluntary exodus from other ...