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Belgian Government Move Reported

... Belgian Government Move Reported The Belgian Government has moved from Ostend to Dunkirk. according to the Russian newspaper lzvestia. quoted by the Moscow wireless. ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 25 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

bursting in the sky

... bursting in the sky The fighi across the E Dunkirk-C FELT THE SHOCKS We saw creat flares, thcr bombs w f the Channel on ' Heavy arly all continu dropped killing another bombs on Diepp n and injurin Enemy I gunned fish says Reuter. ff the coast “TERRIBLE ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LEAVE

... LEAVE refugees who landed at West Coast port on Monday evening in trawler told how they were homhed off the coast of Dunkirk by (lernian aeroplanes, and how British lighters api*eared, heat the raiders ai ul drove one down into the sea in rtames. There ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 479 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RAVE

... 000 volunteers have now registered in the county. Further appointments wi!l be announced in a few days' time. Osten- Bruns -Dunkirk MINT Gild; out ) fl• Coll rd.. BRUSSELS S, LILLE.• B GI U Tourna; Mons NAMUR L' . #s.o° • difgc ewes rra I • (); 1 Camkrai ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

night in cellar

... five through time. We* pushed our car for two miles to save petrol, and then made for Dunkirk where we saw our local agents and arranged for transport over here. *• Dunkirk wa* bombed while we vere there and they dropped parachute and incendiary'bomb*. But ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 729 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

German Supply Difficulties

... guard for a westward movement. The bulge affords manoeuvre room for the purpose, and the object is to reach the coast between Dunkirk and Calais. A glance at the map will show that the strategic triangle of Belgium formed by the coast, the Maginot extension ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 502 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOLD-UP AND AFTER

... may win no actual foothold on our soil, may not even hold single one of those Channel Ports—Zeebrugge, Ostend, Nieuport, Dunkirk —which he covets as nests for his U-boats to harry our shipping in all our sea-ways and to lighten up our blockade. VITALLY ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WESTERN FRONT NEWS MAP

... British Army, for this would then be separated from its main bases and be dependent on ports such as Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk, which are not only of limited shipping capacity but would be within close range of advanced German air bases. It should be ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 651 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZIS STILL THRUSTING

... West and North-West spread. 11l 11111111 l II 12 From Our Military Correspondent the object is to reach the coast between Dunkirk and Calais. POSSIBLE NAZI MANCEUVRE A glance at the map will show that the strategic triangle of Belgium formed by the coast ...