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ALIANT BRITISH IN EPIC STRUGGLE Hope That Withdrawal May Be Completed WNIFICENT HELP OF NAVY AND AIR FORCE ..

... 25 bombers. lie port of Dunkirk, described as a fortified camp, is held by Allied warships and Air Forces. Apparently at Dunkirk are assembled transport fuels for the evacuation of troops. iceording to the Paris spokesman, Dunkirk forms the port of a sort ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Towards the Sea

... defection, on the order of King Leopold, left the Allied • left wing in the air and opened the road to Ypres, to Fumes, and to Dunkirk. Showing in these grave circumstances indomitable resolution —to quote the words of last night's communique— they are ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AIR FORCE

... Allied naval forces are firmly holding the fortified area of Dunkirk, it is stated here to-night. British and French units were also in possession of a part of Calais this evening. Dunkirk has been transformed into an entrendhed camp, firmly held French ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 866 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOSPITAL SHIP ATTACKED

... warships and troop transports which were to Bring home the remainder of the beaten B.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: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 8 | 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

ABLAZE

... direction of Bruges to Dunkirk were strongly resisting German attacks on the Yser canal regions, he continued. The French were defending the region between St. Omer and Cassel, where the German push was moving north-iwest towards Dunkirk. The Allies were fighting ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

French Communiques

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

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 358 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The B.E.F

... which now are fighting for their existence in a narrowing semi-circle whose ends, , happily still our grasp, are Calais and Dunkirk. Since they were pushed forward to Belgium, our soldiers have solved brilliantly problems, on the staff side, as difficult ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STOP PRESS

... of 12 Bri* fighters who yesterday shot than enemy aircraft (see now destroyed enemy c | past three days. their ji day over Dunkirk the l)efi*![ i seven Messerschmitt l(J9s. i|,‘e • ately attacked, and one ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 278 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

REFUGEES AT WOODVMLE. Travelled from Ostend

... nine, whose ages range from 19 to three. The town had been bombed several times, and with other refugees, they walked to Dunkirk carrying as many of their belongings as they could, and caught the ferry to Dover. On reaching England they were taken to ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 145 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FIGHTING

... loth' is an attempt to Allied armies there Possession of the V i t, hills, which .'een Cassel and th at of the region of of Dunkirk. both in the artehemleitiiieng Particularly of the Germans have the front the to have gained a of the Flanders Pocket the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 468 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ON THE YSER

... broken down. “Tlie British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Armentieres, Bailleul and Bergues, west of Dunkirk, is facing destruction by our concentric attacks. “In a swift push through Flanders, German forces marched through 'Bruges ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 392 | Page: 5 | Tags: none