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DUNKIRK SO

... DUNKIRK SO BELFAST TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 8 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK

... THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK Treasures Van'eriS KM THE HARBOUR AT DUNKIRK, WHENCE THE ALLIED ARMIES ARE BEING WITHDRAWN. SO it's June the First! Back in 1939 it was something to get excited about; holiday ideas became more concrete, one really began to feel summer ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1380 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRITONS HELD AT FRONTIER

... —Reuter. FRENCHMEN NOT AT DUNKIRK YET. PRIOUX ARMY SECTION. POSITION MORE DIFFICULT. OPERATIONS ON SOMME FRONT. PARIS, Saturday.—On the northern battlefront the withdrawal of Allied units to the fortified positions of Dunkirk has continued in the most ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VILLAGERS CHEER TROOP TRAINS

... B.E.F. had been evacuated from Dunkirk, states the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post correspondent. Gallant French soldiers, side by side with the British. fought like cats against the Nazis. Little remains of Dunkirk itself. which I was subjected to ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

democracy fell away there. Beaten but unconquered, shining splendour she faced the enemy . . . It was the ..

... ACTIVITY OF BOMBERS• ARRAS TO DUNKIRK. ULSTERMAN'S STORY OF RETREAT. PACKED ROADS AND BOMBS. REFUGEES' TERRIBLE FATE. One of the first Ulstermen to reach Belfast after taking part in the epic struggle still in progress around Dunkirk' is 20-year-old Gunner Desmond ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 352 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WILL BE SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE Long As English Tongue Survives

... WILL BE SPOKEN WITH REVERENCE Long As English Tongue Survives long as the English tongue survives the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence. A leading article in the New York Times, tribute to-day, adds: The rags and blemishes which have hidden ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EVACUATION New Page In British History

... battles of all time—the battle for the extrication of the British Expeditionary Force from France and Belgium, by way of Dunkirk. It is not finished yet, and one must always be mindful of the rule, Wait for the end. Yet many millions of hearts felt ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 801 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ALLIED REARGUARD'S STUBBORN FIGHT BY LAND, SEA, AND AIR IN COMPLETE SOLIDARITY ENEMY ATTACK ON SOMME

... SOMME THE FOLLOWING IS TO-DAY'S OFFICIAL FRENCH COMMUNIQUE:- On land and sea and in the air the French and British forces at Dunkirk are continuing, in complete solidarity, the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. The enemy ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMAN LOSSES HALF MILLION

... bomber formations flown ceaselessly over the zone of ENEMY EFFORTS REDOUBLED. Icanwhile the German army, foiled it- attack on Dunkirk by rising flood which Allied engineers have resc,l over the Flanders plain, has relihxd its efforts to cut off the French ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A TRIUMPH IN DEFEAT

... deadly peril. The retreat to Dunkirk will be recorded in history with such memorable achievements as the march of Xenophon's Ten Thousand and the march of Sir John Moore's army to Corunna in 1809. The flooding of areas near Dunkirk has been of considerable ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 620 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT SUNK

... destroyed or seriously damaged. Sixteen of our fighters are reported missing. At dawn this morning our fighter patrols over Dunkirk shot down 10 enemy fighters with the loss of one of our aircraft. Naval aircraft later bombed and sank an enemy torpedo boat ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... without tears rising to their eyes. How different has been the tempo of the episode which will close with the embarkation at Dunkirk! From the opening scene of the swift advance to the foremost positions occupied by the B.E.F. only three short weeks have ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 4 | Tags: none