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Reluctant to Leave

... Vienna, Hanover and Munich. JUNE 3, 1940 THE EMBARKATIONS AT DUNKIRK THOUSANDS OF MEN STILL LEAVING PROCESS GOING ON DAY ANT) NIGHT Paris, June 2 While the re-embarkation operations at Dunkirk continue on a particularly large scale, tlie tront from the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 850 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BELGIANS LEAVE GAP

... BELGIANS LEAVE GAP ON ROAD TO DUNKIRK M. REYNAUD’S BITTER COMMENT Paris, May 28 First news of Belgium’s decision was announced to the world at 8.30 this morning in broadcast by M. Reynaud, French Prime Minister. During the night there had been a two-hour ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO ALL SERVICES

... carried out from Dunkirk and from beaches in the vicinity. The whole operation was screened by naval forces against any attempt by the enemy interference sea. In addition to almost incessant bombing and machine-gun attacks on Dunkirk the beaches and the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 615 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

R.A.F. MAKE i RECORD “Kill’

... R.A.F. MAKE i RECORD “Kill’ INURING Saturday and yesterday our have accounted for 113 Nazi planes battles over the Dunkirk area. Saturday's bag of 78 was a record for a day. of our planes are missing as a result of these action Spitfire squadron alone ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 607 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Flood Defences

... Flood Defences Commenting on the flooding of regions around Dunkirk, French, military circles to-night suggest that several days must elapse before such action becomes effective. The water, it is explained, must have time to soak into the soil before ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Rowed Troops from Beaches

... Beaches A man who until a few weeks ago was cinema manager in a London suburb to-day recounted his adventures in the inferno of Dunkirk. He responded to an appeal for men to help evacuate the 8.E.F., and .was in charge of small motor cruiser with two other men ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 448 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZIS ADMIT

... 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 embarking at Dunkirk and intervened in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Sports Argus
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIGHT TO THE COAST

... of Ostend, received from its King the order to cease fire, thus opening to the enemy the road to Ypres, to Fumes and to Dunkirk. Since then our troops, under the command of General Blanchard and General Prionx, in close collaboration with the Briti&h ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 306 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZIS ADMIT

... 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 embarking at Dunkirk and intervened in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 236 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“ Ceaseless Fighting ”

... evacuation was also given in last night’s French war communique, which stated:— Since the order was given to them to fall back on Dunkirk, French and British troops engaged on three fronts in the region from St. Omer to the neighbourhood of Arras, Valenciennes ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Warning!

... Warning! EVACUATION OF ALLIED TROOPS FROM THE Dunkirk area goes on steadily —a magnificent achievement and a significant warning if Mussolini reads it aright. Although hemmed in on three sides, our forces have been withdrawn despite the onslaughts of ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

” Freed for Fresh Tasks ”

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

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 297 | Page: 7 | Tags: none