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The Russian Enigma

... have been accepted. In about a month’s time these are to be displayed in three iooms, together with selection of worts not evacuated with the bulk of the collection, illustrating aspects of nineteenth-century art. Recent acquisitions include bequest of modern ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1297 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMANS BOMB REFUGEE TRAINS

... Luxembourg in everincreasing numbers, in all sorts of vehicles. It is understood that there is no question so far of an official evacuation of Brussels. priest, who heartens his parishioners as they go. COUNTRYSIDE HOMES FOR REFUGEES The capital is calm in rpite ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Trek Through Brussels

... Trek Through Brussels There is no question yet of an official evacuation of Brussels, but messages from the Belgian capital tell of streams of refugees passing through the city from the Provinces of Liege and Namur. The refugees, carrying their possessions ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 148 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZI SAVAGERY BOMBERS ATTACK REFUGEES

... pouring into Paris. On Sunday afternoon a flight of five Dornier bombers attacked a train of Belgian refugees going towards Flanders. Bombs fell all round the train, which came to a stop. When their bombs had been used up the Dorniers returned, each of them ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ordination worked out

... unit of next week, i .°re i-.iuat on his last day of « , nter military service Portraying an Army pictured here. He r. IP® Flanders New Hippomat is being held in y and Warwickshire ~ Wfir lsb ed Cross Society, V parities, including Daily Telegraph Particularly ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 614 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

German Claims

... and Namur in long files, fleeing before the pitiless bombing of the German air force. They are hoping to find a refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts, with women, children and old people sitting on top of hastily collected ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1177 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

With the B.E.F. in Belgium, May 14

... little notice.—Exchange. Paris, May 14 The division of the German Army attacking Sedan is occupying the town to-day—after the evacuation of civilians yesterday—it is learned from official sources. Advance German elements have pushed down to and along the Meuse ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 757 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

lies Column Ready

... victory.” Some idea of the scene at Cambrai is drawn by a British United correspondent who saw the whole civilian population evacuated within six hours, despite the destruction of one of the railway stations. Over the scene of battle, masses of German and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1202 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Getting Down To It

... enemy is proceeding. The development of the new Local Defence Volunteers, the plans for the evacuation of children from the coastal regions opposite France and Flanders, the drive against the Fifth Column,” and other administrative changes are all evidence ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

frontier indicate the gigantic scale of the battle raging in Northern France. The greater part of the German ..

... operation Fighting in the north is increasing in violence, said the official French military commentator to-day. 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: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Allies’ Desperate Drive to The Coast

... they have gained a footing on the first of the Flanders Hills Mount Cassel Forty divisions more than 1.000,000 men—and almost the whole of her armoured divisions, have been flung by Germany into the Flanders battle. There is no confirmation of a German ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Flanders Battle Nears

... Flanders Battle Nears THE great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end, with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there,” says to-day's German official communique. Since yesterday the British Expeditionary Force has ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 1 | Tags: none