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In the Dunkirk Area

... the Dunkirk Area The Trench military spokesman announced to-day that in the Dunkirk area the embarkation troops was still being actively carried out at normal speed despite new difficulties. During the past twenty-four hours the enemy has brought up heavy ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“Opened the Road to Dunkirk

... the Road to Dunkirk “It is this Belgian Army which, at tho height of the battle, has unconditionally, and without warning its British and French comrades in arms, suddenly capitulated on the orders of its King and opened the road to Dunkirk to the German ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FIERCE FIGHTING ROUND DUNKIRK

... FIERCE FIGHTING ROUND DUNKIRK Paris, June 3 To-night’s French official communique states: The enemy continued to attack with ferocity our positions around Dunkirk, wthere they encountered vigorous resistance and unceasing counter-attacks by our troops ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 384 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

200 CASUALTIES RIUMPH OF DUNKIRK OPERATIONS

... 200 CASUALTIES R IUMPH OF DUNKIRK OPERATIONS ; S MESSAGE TO THE PRIME MINISTER aftp ar s region were subjected to attack, yesterday ° » by “a considerable bombing expedition strongly or^e d by fighters.’' It is officially announced that more than j bombs ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 693 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REOCCUPIED

... REOCCUPIED THE DEFENCE OF DUNKIRK Paris, May 31 To-night’s French war communique states: In the North our troops have continued their march towards Dunkirk, where some of them were able to embark under the protection of the Navy and Air Force, despite ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 352 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

IMMINENT

... have foiled 11 efforts to capture Dunkirk; and enemy forces are now t0 concentrating on cutting off the French rearguard been covering the withdrawal to the coast. Part of this la has fought its way through to Dunkirk, but the t is still in great danger ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Admiral’s Signal Answered

... red flares. Near Dunkirk, the oil tanks were still blazing furiously. In the middle of the swept channel, we bumped some wreckage and fouled one of our propellers. We crept ahead on one engine until we reached the entrance to Dunkirk harbour. There we ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 543 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Birmingham Post

... coast to the northwest of it are in German hands. Adinkerke, west of Fumes, audGhyvelde, ten kilometres (six miles) east of Dunkirk, have been taken. “The number prisoners and the amount of booty also considerably increased yesterday. Two hundred guns of ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 274 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

German Air Claims

... corresponds to the strength of several divisions; (3) Tliat the British transport fleet off Dunkirk has been scattered or destroyed (4) That the fall of Dunkirk is to expected soon ; (5) That Marseilles and the most important French railway communications ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

100 FRENCH WARSHIPS AT

... 100 FRENCH WARSHIPS AT DUNKIRK Paris, June 2 Some 100 French warships and more than 200 French merchant vessels of all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1168 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FAVOURABLE

... the Lille region, and fighting fiercely, the Prioux army is slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp of Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending southwest and north-east of the entrenched camp are now ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 446 | Page: 5 | Tags: none