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ICE SKATING

... an army can be confronted. But there is, in fact, no parallel for the conditions w hich prevail to-day in Flanders. Our Armies are being evacuated under the full view of the enemy and under constant attack from land and from the air. Moreover, the coast ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 564 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHY HE TOOK THE CAR

... Lance-Corporal Clifford Edward Williams, aged 25, a Guardsman, whose home is in South Wales, is one of the B.E.F. evacuated from Flanders. In order to visit his wife and the baby he has never seen, he took away a doctor's car in order to get home. He drove ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 163 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SHOT DOWN OR DAMAGED

... DOWN OR DAMAGED Fierce Battles Over Dunkirk The Air Ministry announces:— Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the north-east coast of France. Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PREMIER MAY SPEAK TOMORROW

... account of the successful withdrawal of the B.E.F. from Flanders, secondly, states the political correspondent of the London Star, he will deal with the wider questions arising out of that evacuation. The second of these aspects is the more important. Parliament ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK POSITION “IMPROVED”

... stated that Allied losses in the Flanders withdrawal were light while those of the enemy were flve times as great. M. de Kerillis, in the Paris newspaper Epoque. states that more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders. He adds that to these a third ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1005 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

200,000 “WALK THE PLANK ADMIRAL’S STORY OF DUNKIRK small band of junior officers working in secret control room ..

... Dynamo Room” at a naval base on the South-East Coast of England helped to direct the evacuation which saved 335,000 officers and men of the Allied Forces beleagured in Flanders. The story of the brilliant naval operations which enabled the B.E.F. to come home ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 328 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Cutty Sark Club

... be out and around deck again. The Cutty Sark Club salutes the men who manned the miscellaneous craft in evacuating our gallant soldiers from Flanders. They showed a courage that the love of the sea demands—a courage that helps to win wars. Winnipeg. W. ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AIR MINISTRY (1 P.M.)

... AIR MINISTRY (1 P.M.) The Air Ministry announced this afternoon: Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East Coast of France Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were destroyed ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 323 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZI SOMME ATTACK FAILS

... Paris statement on the Nazi attacks on the Somme is on Page 3. ALLIES ARE AS ONE IN FLANDERS was emphasised in London, to-day, that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders is combined Allied operation during which the British and French are working in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 846 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LORD GORT BACK

... King a firsthand account of the Flanders battle during an audience at Buckingham Palace. Lord Gort’s return was recorded by the War Office in this announcement: “As a result of the good progress made in the evacuation of the B.E.F. and the consequent ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 412 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONTINUEO FROM PRECEDING COLUMN

... successful evacuation of the B.E.F. means that all the B.E.F. are safe. These men have been fighting a continuous battle for 20 days. They have been shelled, bombed and attacked by ’planes. Losses to some units are heavy. German losses in Flanders were estimated ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 419 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

200 SPIES SHOT

... 200 SPIES SHOT There came endless stories of the Fifth Column menace when the men from Flanders arrived. One Birkenhead private told of 200 spies being shot in Dunkirk in one day alone. Another spy, who was seen by soldiers signalling directions with ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 466 | Page: 4 | Tags: none