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CARRYING ON:

... Emperor. In memorable speech he said : I admit I am neither as young nor in such good health as when I went to fight in France, Flanders and Egypt, a quarter of a century ago, but no Rajput is ever too old to fight.” “Alien Sassenachs JYJAKING part of north ...

Published: Thursday 29 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 356 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FINNS ABANDON ISLAND FORTRESSES

... When , with other journalists , I visited the place yesterday its black shell of desolation was like the broken towns of Flanders and Northern France after 1914 . The destruction wrought on Viipuri is greater than anything done even in Madrid , Alicante ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1166 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CURRENT EVENTS

... trench warfare is often of little value as we proved in our many attempts to break through the German lines in France and Flanders in the last war. The defenders can prepare fresh positions in the rear almost as fast as those in front are occupied. The ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Our London Letter

... Ely, in which year, and after holding a curacy at Bedford, he became an Army chaplain. He served during the Great War in Flanders and France, being mentioned in dispatches, and became chaplain of the Royal Air Force in 1918. He was senior chaplain in ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... referred on two tinoccasions to the hardships which th war has brought to many London ! and boarding house keepers ov-nT, evacuation and other causes, a of hotels and boarding houses were prosperous a few months a?o now almost deserted and the” r, prietors ...

Published: Monday 05 February 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Poppies Grow

... duel, the famous Cloth Hall and Cathedral being Iffk in ruins. Lord Roberta died while on a visit to the British troops in Flanders. By the third week of the month the extreme cold and the heavy snowstorms at the front had brought operations to a standstill ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: Coatbridge Leader
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Payments to Unmarried Employees in H.M. Forces. 19 1 4-2 1 Relief Fund Balance

... Fisher, Messrs. C. D. Albion, J. J. Bone. It. Blau:lett, D. F. Burlingham, A. P. Burton. A. L. Carpenter, R. G. Erringion, H. Flanders, T. A. Frost, H. Ives, J. Knape, J. T. Neave, W. J. Panton, and J. Whitmore. with the Town Clerk tDinr. Frank G. Reeves) ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1940
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1995 | Page: 7 | Tags: none