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GREAT DAY IN THE AIR DUNKIRK EVACUATION ACCELERATED IN SPITE OF NAZI PLANES CALM ON SOMME AND AISNE

... the Allied navies and air forces the work of embarking the last heroic defenders who have covered the Evacuation of the northern armies from Flanders is going steadily iiirward in spite of aerial bombing and hhmbardment by German long-range France can ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STATION CROWDS CHEER BJE.F. CHILDREN GIVE TROOPS SWEETS WOMEN and children in their Sunday best crowded station ..

... best crowded station platforms iu outer London yesterday give rousing welcome to British and French troops back from the Flanders battlefields as their trains steamed through the stations. Kiddies clamoured at the counters of sweetshops near one station ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... vessels of all kinds ranging from converted liners to trawlers have taken part the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces Flanders, it stated Paris.—P.A. War Special. ALLIES’ IMPLACABLE RESOLVE War Council Meeting in Paris meeting of the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AROUND AN

... AROUND The Earl of Erne The deatlw-from wounds received in action —of the Earl of Eme in the heavy fighting Flanders recalls the fate of his father, Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Viscount Crichton, M.V.0., D. 5.0., of the Royal Horse Guards, who fell on ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Has Many Things In Common with Ulster's Capital

... Common with Ulster's Capital DUNKIRK, whose stretches of sanddunes have been giving the men of the B.E.F. refuge in the evacuation of Flanders was once a British possession —only to be sold by an impecunious Charles 11. Capital of a number of Communes, its ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION back from THE FRONT MUSSOLINI: NO MOVE YET Week-end May Be Decisive announcement of any fresh War decision by Italy was made following a meeting the fascist Cabinet yesterday under Signor THE BATTLE OF THE PORTS Premier's Speech at ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LORD HAREWOOD'S NEPHEW

... LORD HAREWOOD'S NEPHEW FALLS IN FLANDERS BATTLE. The Hon. Gustavus Lascclles Hamilton- Russell—whose wife died suddenly in 1938, less than a year after their fouryear-old daughter. Charmian, had been killed in a lift accident on Coronation Day—has been ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HIS PAL A B.E.F. SOLDIER

... coincidence told to-day by a Campeitown (Argyll) man who took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders. My ship was among the first to reach Dunkirk to begin the evacuation. he said. The sea close in shore was black with soldiers standing up ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PORT RENDERED USELESS FOR GERMANS

... Military and naval circles in Paris last night described the evacuation as without precedent in military history. Even up to three days ago it was thought that it would not possible to evacuate more than 100,000 men. The results achieved were only possible ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH PRESS AND THE SPEECH

... immense military ground to be regained after our strategical defeat in Flanders leaves no excuse for illusions about the stern path we have all to tread in the immediate future. EVACUATION WORRIES GERMANS. The German authorities are most concerned to nullify ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 982 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH ADMIRALTY

... defenders kept the Germans at bay and prevented them from interfering with the evacuation, except with their aircraft and heavy artillery. Some of the soldiers from Flanders are already on the front stretching from the Somme to the Bhine. El RE-ULSTER ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MR. CHURCHILL’S DETAILED STORY OF BATTLE OF THE PORTS

... BATTLE OF THE PORTS 335,000 British and French Troops Evacuated MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL in the British House Commons day made his promised statement on the campaifln in northern France and Flanders. While from a military point view what had happened was ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 5 | Tags: none