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Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ROYAL NAVY'S PART IN NARVIK'S CAPTURE Enemy Air Activity IT was stated in London yesterday that Narvik was ..

... where Allfad odds. On the other hand, they were David forces Ain held Dunkirk and able to make full use of the natural gave the armies all assistance possible. defences before Dunkirk, and were The combined air forces„ too, carried m e t e d to b e i n ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1837 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... military circles state tha the water has now had time to soal well into the ground, and the whole o the area to the ‘south-west Dunkirk va ae _@ a EIU UR almost to St. Omer, has reverted to th huge marsh it was some 20 centurie ago when it held up Cesar’s legions ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

5S. THE EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. ON ISSUES OF WAR AND PEACE | HOW BRITISH HELD CALAIS The

... large number of the enemy and was of invaluable assistance to the main body of the Ex- peditionary Force in its drawal on Dunkirk. This action will count among the most herc’c deeds in the annals of fhe Army. “The Best A.R.P. Service in the World ”’ country ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LETTERS

... soon as he Seapo them: from that moment, th Captures of their imports is cut off, an © + AS gee, ports, they cease to exist. Dunkirk has a good trade, but other three Channel ports, Bo Ulogne and Calais and Ostend, are unj 7 ant as cargo ports. It Mort. nearness ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

B.E.F. WITHDRAWAL HOPES FIGHT UNPARALLELED IN HIS TORY

... resolution the British and French armies in the north are making a desperate bid to drive their way through to the coast. Dunkirk. the principal French port still In Allied hands• has now been transformed into an entrenched camp, and is strongly held by ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1914 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

President of Trust

... them I wee bombed. On our last night in Holland we were bombed, in Zeebrugge, IBelgium, we dept through an air raid. and In Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. At Ostend we watched German planes sweep ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1073 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

i 8.—THE EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, M AY 31, 1940. —— et -— —. eee _— GLOWWORM CURLEW ITALY’S WAR TANK-TO-TANK

... don’t like the war, but I have not! Reeder, G. H., acting engine room artificer 4th | Mouse (10-1); 3,- eo #1 (8-1). Asa Dunkirk have been alive with troops| encouraged soldiers to be insubor- cia ss; Regan, H. R. W., stoker Ist class; Rex, Cc Also. ran: ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5832 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MARINE

... week. The rata hitherto another and the second was relieved 'They steed there like rocks. without and opening the road to Dunkirk to power of the aggrespor, and those who Let us always face the Nets, and. bo u t by a thittl Wine s damn for ancthing. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6766 | Page: 8 | Tags: none