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WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940

... —Fighting In the North increasing in violence, aaid the official French military commentator to- day. He said that In the BatUe Flanders the Germans were throwing enormous human and material forces into the nght, regardless of losses, and were trying to overwhelm ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMAN LOSSES HALF MILLION

... 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 aruard which is lighting its way to force—part of General Prioux's --has ...

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

FOG HAMPERS GERMAN

... FOG HAMPERS GERMAN AIRMEN British Evacuation Helped BERLIN, Friday.—Weather condltions over the Channel are hampering the operations of German aircraft against the evacuation of the 8.E.F., according to the official German News Agency to-day, in its dally ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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

... British forces at Dunkirk are continuing, in complete solidarity, the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. The enemy, showing the importance which he attaches to crossing the Somme, counter-attacked in this region. This cou ...

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

VILLAGERS CHEER TROOP TRAINS

... VILLAGERS CHEER TROOP TRAINS. Covered by the Allies' desperate rearguard action in Flanders, tens of thousands of British soldiers—and French. too—continued to pour into England to-day safe home from one of the most glorious battlefields in the history ...

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

BATTLE RAGES ON COAST ALLIED FORCES EVACUATING 40 GERMAN DIVISIONS IN ATTACK

... BATTLE RAGES ON COAST ALLIED FORCES EVACUATING 40 GERMAN DIVISIONS IN ATTACK French General Reported Captured There is increasing German pressure on the French-Belgium Coast, as the Allied forces are evacuating. The battle rages furiously. The British ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Frontier Sentinel
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WAR

... claimed to have reached the River Yser thenei advance on Dunkirk and to have port within the range of their heavy artillery. In Flanders British and French troops continued their brave struggle, fighting side by side. With heavy fighting most violent on the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Huge Force

... Huge Force In the fighting In Flanders the German command has thrown into action what is described here as the largest attacking force in history. Ten armoured and three mechanised divisions, in addition to large numbers miantry, were massed against the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMAN ADVANCE CHECKED PRECAUTIONS AGAINST AIR RAIDS ports Irom Paris say that Al.iod troops are still ..

... impassable for mechanised troops. The action of flooding a large area will release a huge number of troops to defend the Flanders hills on which the Germans are trying to get a foothold. A message expressing appreciation of the tenacity which the French ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Sligo Champion
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 754 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH RECAPTURE PART OF ABBEVILLE

... —The German Army, foiled in their attack on Dunkirk by reason of the flood waters which the Allied engineers topsed over the Flanders plains, redoubled their efforts to cut off these operations. The German losses both in men and material have been heavy. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH DUCE’S PLEDGES HITLER

... afternoon with enemy detachments flung its flank men of the B.E.F. and more French troops are still stubbornly cling- ing to the Flanders hills in an effort to Keep open the path to the sea. The floods released by engineers immediately north and south of Dunkirk— ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CONTROL OF COASTGUARD

... in the North is increasing in violence, said the official French military commentator today. He said that in the Battle of Flanders the Germans were throwing enormous human and material forces into the fight, regardless of losses, and were trying to overwhelm ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 789 | Page: 5 | Tags: none