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FOURTH ROUND

... Argentina masses of printed propaganda prepared by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. Evacuation Defied Air Blitzkrieg IT'ROM a military point of view the evacuation from Flanders —most difficult of all tasks—.has been carried out with great success against the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 379 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Something Like A Miracle Been Performed

... predict a few days ago that so large a proportion of our Army could extricate itself from its perilous situation in France and Flanders. Already scores of thousands of our troops, mostly British but including French and Belgian, have been brought over. It ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1975 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Withdrawal goes on as allies

... this country.” R.A.F. Screen Operations The Air Ministry announced to-day: “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: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIGHT STUBBORNLY Enemy Tries To Mine Coast

... Fighting with a steadiness never excelled in military history. Allied troops are continuing their grim rearguard action in Flanders. THOUSANDS British troops continued to arrive in England to-day, and Estimates of the number who have returned vary from ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 350 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RANGE ROAD METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY. JUNE 2. 1940. 10-30 Preacher. Rev TOM ROBSON (Chairman of the District). 0 ..

... to la> down their arms the immediate effect was to make the already perilous position of the British and French armies In Flanders quite untenable. The German plan was obviously to cut off and destroy the Allied forces before they had time or opportunity ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

J. L

... impressions of the homecoming of the British Expeditionary Force from their grim battle in Northern France and Flanders proof this evacuation is of the spirit of British soldiers and British sailors. An Army Corps commander said to me soon after he stepped ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RATINGS

... Paris. Friday. Admirad Abrial who is in command of the French naval forces who have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. IT'S ONLY DAD- . . OLI 37 o :3e \ le y, 0 \ ' t( ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 816 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Allies Fight on Against World's Largest Attacking Force

... 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: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Still Held Off

... England today from Flanders as every kind of craft plied to and fro across the bomb-splashed waters of the Channel. THE German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by rising flood waters which Allied engineers have released over the Flanders plain, has wdoubled ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

INTENSIFIED

... division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders. Another estimate is that of M. de Kerillis, the well-known French war commentator, who says the Epoque that more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders and that to these a third cr perhaps even ...

56 NAZIS DOWN

... 56 NAZIS DOWN •Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East coast of France.” slates to-day s Air Ministry communique: Further reports show that dur'n~ yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were destroyed or seriously ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REARGUARD HEROES

... energetic command. . , Whether it will be held when its role as a refuge and a pert of embarkation for the Allied army in Flanders is completed is a secret o the Supreme ' Command. On the Somme no major operation ' is being undertaken for the moment. At ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 4 | Tags: none