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100,000 ARE REPORTED EVACUATED

... 100,000 ARE REPORTED EVACUATED TENS of thousands more British and French soldiers reached England to-day, covered by the Allies' glorious rearguard action in Flanders. Warships, transports, and craft of all kinds are plying to and fro across the Channel ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Are Fighting Men Coming Now rp O-DAY it is men of the fighting regiments who have been pouring A into the ..

... to some estimates only a division of Allied troops now remain in Flanders. The entrenched camp of Dunkirk, reinforced by the arrival of considerable numbers of the Allied armies in Flanders, including small numbers of Belgians, is holding out well and ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS “These Were Men

... High tribute to the evacuation of the British and French troops from Dunkirk was paid to-day by the Soviet official organ Izvestia, estimating that over “ 200,000 of the nearly 300.000 British troops ” on the Continent has been evacuated. (Stories and pictures ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRENCH

... and air forces continue with complete solidarity at Dunkirk their bitter fight to resist the German drive and to assure evacuation. The enemy showed the importance they attached to the passage of the Somme by counter-attacking in this region. This co ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALLIES HOLD A CORUNNA LINE OUTSIDE DUNKIRK

... j*w2R ST. (Bus Station), Piccadilly, Manchester WELLIMGTOH HP. S.. STOCKPORT NUMBERS of British and French troops evacuated from Flanders by sea are very large, it was authoritatively stated in London this afternoon. Despite their great numerical superiority ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 700 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PEER’S HEIR IS KILLED IN ACTION

... EVELYN FREDERICK VERE BOSCAWEN, of the Coldstream Guards, the eldest son of Viscount Falmouth, has been killed in action in Flanders, it is announced to-day. He was 23. The new heir to the peerage is the Hon. George Hugh Boscawen, who was born in 1919. Lord ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 491 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BACK TO THE FRONT

... war ' correspondent, who talked so much good sense to the Manchester Reform Club this week on the lessons he had learned in Flanders, is returning to the new front in France quite soon. E. A. M. is not only a fine journalist but a discriminating and fearless ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 202 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JOHN TRENT

... of State, Lord Gort appointed corps commander to carry on the defence and evacuation, whether from Dunkirk or beaches and returned to England, Alexander completed the evacuation of Dunkirk. His brilliance as soldier and strategist was once again demonstrated ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1945
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Hand-to-hand Fights Last War’s Cemeteries

... this sector, EVACUATION PROCEEDS On all the beaches in the Dunkirk area under the protection of the Allied navies and au forces the work of embarking the last heroic defenders who have covered the evacuation of the northern armies from Flanders is going steadily ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 468 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I COMB OUT |

... LIONEL J. O. LAMBART, who is missing believed killed while commanding H.M.S. Grive, a Fleet Air Arm tender, sunk during the evacuation of Dunkirk, is the brother and heir presumptive of Field-Marshal the Earl of Cavan. Captain Lambart. who is 66, served in ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 3 | Tags: none