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DUNKIRK STILL HOLDING OUT

... DUNKIRK STILL HOLDING OUT French Army Hacking Way to Safety WHILE ever increasing numbers of British and French troops are being safely landed in England their comrades in Flanders are grimly continuing their great rearguard action against the German ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING AT DUNKIRK: NAZIS'

... FEROCIOUS FIGHTING AT DUNKIRK: NAZIS' 10 for Trial on National Service Act Charge IMPERSONATION AT MEDICAL BOARD '-ALLEGATION EFERENCE to a man with a very bad condition of the heart who on five occasions, it is alleged, took the place of other men before ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Evacuation of Dunkirk's Heroic Rearguard Goes On TROOPS' GREAT DISCIPLINE

... Evacuation of Dunkirk's Heroic Rearguard Goes On TROOPS' GREAT DISCIPLINE Hint of Nazi Offensive Verdun ON all the beaches in the Dunkirk area, under the protection of the Allied navies and air forces, the work of embarking the last heroic defenders, ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Grim Night Fighting Towns: Allied Drive DUNKIRK STRONGLY HELD BY FRENCH

... Grim Night Fighting Towns: Allied Drive DUNKIRK STRONGLY HELD BY FRENCH Violent Struggle Cassel and on Near Yser Paris. Thursday. FIGHTING with indomitable resolution the British and French armies in the north are making a desperate bid to drive their ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIED MILITARY REVIEWS FRENCH UNITS STILL HOLD CALAIS AND DUNKIRK Belgians' Valiant Fight Before Capitulation ..

... ALLIED MILITARY REVIEWS FRENCH UNITS STILL HOLD CALAIS AND DUNKIRK Belgians' Valiant Fight Before Capitulation Paris, Wednesday. A UTHORITATIVE advicee state • that while the situation on the northern front is not clear, the battle is extremely violent ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES' MASS AIR RAIDS Navy Keeps Dunkirk Life-line Open Front Press Association Special Correspondent with the ..

... ALLIES' MASS AIR RAIDS Navy Keeps Dunkirk Life-line Open Front Press Association Special Correspondent with the R.A,F. Somewhere in France. Wednesday. THE troops on land are receiving the greatest possible assistance both from the combined British and ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AIIitiENTIERES--SHAMBLES

... ground. It is believed that ships of the All.ed navies were shelling areas at the back of Dunkirk. Although machine gunned, bombed and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently burii'd the Allied dead. We have been fighting and ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BITTER FIGHTING

... being quickly and safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently Today's French communique reports : In the north opera- tions are continuing with the same bitterness around Dunkirk. On the Somme and the Aisne several local ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SAAR SORTIES

... FRENCH COMMUNIQUE This M-I'llaig s French cont. niutuque states•- - During the night embarkation went on actively in the Dunkirk region thanks to the rt:•:siance of our troops and in spite of ceaseless difficulties caused by enemy pressure. On the rest ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WITHDRAWAL TO NEARER COAST

... WITHDRAWAL TO NEARER COAST French Hold On In Calais, Dunkirk Still Safe ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 12 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RIG GERMAN ARMY

... possession of the famous line of hills, which extends between Cassel and Ypres and divides the region of Lille from that of Dunkirk. The German attacks both in the south-west and north-east are meeting with fierce resistance from the Allied troops consisting ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WITHDRAWAL IS UNINTERRUPTED

... Sea & Air Defence Still Triumphing WHILE the Allies have continued uninterruptedly with the withdrawal of their troops from Dunkirk, the fighting there has reached a ferocity unparalleled in the present campaign, according to reports reaching Paris. The ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 1 | Tags: none