... results of the evacuation scheme has been the discovery that large numbers of town children are being brought up with no religious knowledge at all. Taking one example, declared to be typical of many, a country parson asked a class of evacuated children, with ...

... advising them to? return to Britain. If they cannot find a means of leaving the country, they arete report to a rendezvous for evacuation^ ALLIES' ADVAME Belgians Strew Roads With Flowers (From a British United Press Correspond dent with the 8.E.F.) British ...

... estaminet A farmer went to it with shot gun and made the crew of four prisoners In the Westward direction I saw signs of evacuation but not on any great scale mostly old women and children All over the countryside peasants were stoically carrying on wiH’ ...

... AREAS FOR CHILDREN Exclusion of East Coast Urged ple« that the reception areas should re arranged ao that children are not evacuated to danger aonea, auco aa placea «> the East and South-East ooaste, was r!i~ m * resolution poaaad at the contU^l * f* 1 ® ...

... COMMUNIQUE issued to-day by the French Admiralty states: “In the course of North Sea operations off the Dutch islands and Flanders coasts, we have lost the submarine Doris, the destroyer L’Adroit and the supply ship Le Niger. “The crews of the last-mentioned ...

... fighting hard in Boulogne the Germans have not yet reached Calais while British and French forces are gradually closing the Flanders “gap” which it was stated in one quarter had been reduced to 12 miles The Germans are suffering tremendous losses in their ...

... population the Germans are dropping from the air tracts printed in Norwegian giving a highly coloured version of the fighting in Flanders From personal observation of the effect of these leaflets on the people I can state that the Germans are wasting their time ...

... STRONG FLANDERS DEFENCE Desperate Nazi Bid to Overwhelm Allies ENEMY DISREGARDING HEAVY LOSSES Paris, Monday. FIGHTING in the north is increasing In violence, said the of fi cial French military commentator today. He said that in the Battle of Flanders ...

... FLANDERS ONSLAUGHT CONTINUES Paris, Tuesday. VONTINIJING their campaign of ruthless bombing of civilians German airmen flying low yesterday machine gunned a procession of communicants. including a number of children. There were many victims. A hospital ...

... night French units still held out In Calais. Dunkirk has been heavily bombed but the town is not directly threatened. in Flanders. the enemy was dealt t heavy blow and his losses are reported to have been very high. MASSED R.A.F. ATTACKS The situation ...

... The Allied victory at Narvik and the firm attitude of king Haakon will tend to bring more and more young men to the North. Flanders Battle The Allied armies in the pocket in the North-West corner of France have still a port at their disposal. They are receiving ...

... Victorianism.” There was more than a modicum of truth in that observation. We looked back when we should have looked forward. Flanders Crisis There is no use denying any of these things. History will record them, and students in the future will look back with ...