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... FINAL EFFORT. They have evacuated several important strategic positions in the north and east of Ypres. and several of their batteries have been destroyed. While their reinforcements arc marching from Bruges their main army, which is shattered, is retreating ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1914
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 2105 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NUMEROUS DIRECT HITS

... Waalhaven began shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The airport hangars, presumably fired by the Dutch before evacuation, were already ablaze when the first of the British bombers arrived over the aerodrome. Attacks wore concentrated on the ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 974 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LOBBY CORRESPONDENT

... have died or have been invalided from similar causes in France and Flanders. further asks for the number who have lost their lives from exposure iu the three weeks preceding th° evacuation of the Suvlu Bay position, and the number admitted to hospital from ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 980 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEW PUSH ON GHENT

... BRUGES FORT BLOWN UP. RETREATING ENEMY SPREADS DESOLATION EVERYWHERE. Telegraphing on Tuesday, the Havas correspondent on the Flanders front says;— The Germans have destroyed Bruges harbour, blowing up everything they possibly could. They had transformed the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1918
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 964 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

of Contraband Negotiations

... them away from the Flanders coast. Our losses have been very heavy, but judging by the stories one hears the lermans have lost five times much. Considering the incessant bombing and shelling during the retreat and even during evacuation —for it is proved ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1489 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Last of Emden and Koenigsberg

... enstereeeshil to the that they were to evacuate .he About •this ton. the Allow were making a emcesfoil r esi s tance between Ilullebeke and • being made, at the earn, time. toward* Rollebeke cod Thus. alone 'shale of the Flanders line, nt the end ..f Met freak ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1914
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 2283 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

>W IT WAS ACCOMPI WITHOUT LOSS

... Parliament that common knowledge that the commander-in-chief of the army in the Levant had made recommendations in favour of evacuation. It could and did hoodwink, the Turks, in spite of its friends at home. . * . . | A third otwentiol was adequate supply ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1915
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1418 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

War Comforts Committee

... this appeal on Tuesday at a general meeting of the Merthyr War Comforts Committee when referring to the successful evacuation from Flanders of 350,000 men of the British Expeditionary• Force. Canon Pugh. who Is the chairman of the committee, presided, and ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 935 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WESTERN MAIL. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1914,

... march westward, and in the evening of the 14th had reached the Bruges and Thielt district. On our left wing the enemy has evacuated the left bank of the Lys. Between the Lys and the La Bassee Canal the situation is stationary. In the Lens district and between ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1914
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1395 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE EXPREtSs SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 1917

... itaaehrucken Greve French and aprore of tin., moor.• villages on the road to !woe. Pirion minuted. Rusisions repo: led evacuating Kronstasit. the f rrtres, guarding Fetragrad on the Baltic side. German attack Oil the new British line in Fla: dew. Geninal ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1294 | Page: 10 | Tags: none