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SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK

... SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK NAZI COMMUNIQUE ADMISSION To-day's German communique says:—- The attack against Dunkirk from the West, the South, and the East, is slowly making progress. The difficult terrain, which is flooded and trenched by numerous ditches ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK AREA

... with le withdrawal of their troops from Dunkirk, the lere lias reached a ferocity unparalleled tin the Ca nipaign, according to reports reaching Paris. f s German communique claims that Nazi troops ene^ra into Dunkirk, and that house-to-house ln is going ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WILD CLAIMS BY NAZIS

... on fire. DUNKIRK DESTROYED British attempts to rescue their hemmed-in troops and take them heme over the Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy's hands. The port of Dunkirk was destroyed ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ALLIES CONTINUING GRIM REARGUARD ACTION

... more troops are Quickly and safely evacuated from Dunkirk. 0 the west of the Yser Canal the Allies stand firm, the e.vrny of General Prioux, which was hemmed in continues to make progress towards Dunkirk. r ls now entrenched camp, almost completely ded ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES WILL FIGHT TO FINAL VICTORY

... have reached area at Dunkirk and are taking part in its erman attacks, presumably intended to sound on the line of the Somme, have been ' nch military spokesman said to-day that lacking ' le rt ifi e d positions at Dunkirk from l ' le err iiave been ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1001 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BOMBED ON BEACH

... and the final evacuation by the Navy of the men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. He told an Echo reporter how the British forces are being taken out of blazing and bomb-blasted Dunkirk not in battalions, nor yet in companies, but man by man, under the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOST MINESWEEPER IS SAFE

... LOST MINESWEEPER IS SAFE Of the 24 minor war vessels lost in the operations during the withdrawal from Dunkirk one is now safe. This was announced when early to-day the Admiralty made the following correction to last night's naval bulletin: The paddle ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS CLAIM 19 SHIPS SUNK

... warships and troop transports which were to bring home the remainder of the beaten 8.E.F., in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend. All branches of the Services joined in the attack, which was directed against more than 60 ships. Three warships ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIAN PRIDE IN B.E.F

... Minister, has sent the following cable to Mr. Churchill: Every Australian has watched with pride the great feat of the Army at Dunkirk. Its amazing capacity to convert defeat into triumph inspires us, and the holding up of the German arms is of inestimable ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH FIGHTING STUBBORNLY

... broken in a short time. The attack against the rest of the British Army in the loop between Furnes, Bergues, and west of Dunkirk, is proceeding. The loop is only a few I miles deep, is flat, and has been flooded. The enemy is resisting here stub- j ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THIS SHINING THING

... THIS SHINING THING CO long as the English tongue survives, the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence. A leading article in the New York Times, paying this tribute to-day, adds:— The rags and blemishes which have hidden the soul of democracy ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TALL CLAIMS BY GERMANS

... on both sides of Dunkirk, which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very difficult terrain, is making good progress. Despite the bad weather our Air Force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops disembarking at Dunkirk, and intervened ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 4 | Tags: none