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ders fight continues

... France, Friday. West of Lille much progress has been made. It is even stated in many quarters that the town has been again evacuated by the German forces, pending the arrival of reinforcements. Certainly the Allies have already establishe rmentieres, entrenched ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1914
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE POSITION

... anti-aircraft fire in the town, and has been shelled from the same neighbourhood, which Shows that the enemy has not entirely evacuated, that area. The latest news With regard Bruges is that are the outskirts to the west and- south. Further south the French ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 302 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL, DUNKIRK DEFENDERS MEN STILL EMBARKING FROM BEACHES

... THE AL LI ED NAVI ES AND Al R FORCES, THE WORK OF EMBARKING THE HEROIC DEFENDERS WHO HAVE COVERED THE EVACUATION OF THE NORTHERN ARMIES FROM FLANDERS IS GOING STEADILY FORWARD IN SPITE OF AERIAL BOMBING AND BOMBARDMENT BY GERMAN LONG-RANGE GUNS. THE TROOPS ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOSS OF THE COAST

... our vessels back home. Tim tew unserviceable vessels that had remain were first dismantled and them destroyed. The evacuation tlie Flanders coast will have no considerable effect the conduct of the naval war.”—Press Association War special. THE ROAD TO ...

Published: Monday 21 October 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 459 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“ TRENCH FOOT ”

... Fifth Army men have been sent to hospital and evacuation units with this painful akin disease, which was named in the great war when soldiers developed it after prolonged standing in the mud and water of Flanders trenches. The persistent rain and colder weather ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 102 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOLIDAYS TO BK RESUMED BIG ARMS RESERVE AGAIN

... for days off. will be suggested to employers by bhe Ministry of Labour. Britain’s losses material suffered in the evacuations of Flanders and ranee have been made good. Employers not engaged on war work have taken advantage of the situation to cancel all ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RELIEF BARGES WARNED TO AVOID CITY

... requirements that may compel Germany to evacuate more the northern French tsmt Exchange. According now* from the Belgian front (say* the Havre correspondent the “Daily Telegraph”) the Germans are flooding Western Flanders and have burned several villages behind ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... attack in the near future as so real that we should have plans for the evacuation of schoolchildren as complete as possible by the beginning of next week. Mr. MacDonald said:— Evacuation may not start next week, but we may definitely decide to start it in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Garrisons Abandoned

... Vosges, and the Germans have evacuated the three villages beppois, Mons, and Bisel, abandoning quantity of material.—Central News. One hundred and twenty thousand Germans have been sent ipres, and the garrisons in Flanders have been reduced to a minimum- ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1914
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

1815—1871—1915

... (List of troops now in Flanders follows.) The Franco-German War. 8 May, official despatch annpnnoes that the Federalists occupied Clamart station on the 3rd, and the castle of Isay was fired the night of the 4th and evacuated the Versaillists. —From ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1915
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CIVILIANS REMOVED

... necessarr, as to receive the evacuated pulation on its territory. They will be by the Belgian Relief Commission.— Reuter. The “‘Petit Parisien” says the Allies are ed with, and are beating, 17 enemy divisions on the Flanders front. t certain points the ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1918
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CITY OF LUXE

... other towns evacuation, the Joes our French Allies would have been disastrous. BRUSSELS UNSAFE. The Echo Paris says that the Germans transferring their banks from Brussels. —Central News. The Petit Parisien says that at certain points Flanders tbs confusion ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | Tags: none