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8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST

... 8.E.F., INTACT, ARE WITHDRAWING TO COAST DUNKIRK AND CALAIS, STILL HELD THE B.E.F. ARE STILL INTACT TOGETHER, AND HAVE WITHDRAWN MILES TOWARDS THE COAST. UP TO LAST NIGHT THE FRENCH STILL HELD CALAIS. DUNKIRK HAS BEEN HEAVILY BOMBED, BUT IS NOT YET DIRECTLY ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN VERSION OF BATTLE

... twenty-five miles wide at its widest point.” German troops advancing in Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. “ Dunkirk,” it was claimed, “is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its harbour has been ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Fighting Round Ypres

... fighting is continuing to-night round Ypres and Kemmel. German airmen report that Dunkirk has been burning for three days. It is also stated that there is street fighting in Dunkirk. —The Associated Press. NAZI COMMUNIQUE 4 BRITISH ARMY FACING DESTRUCTION A ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 318 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Communiques

... Communiques Nazi Claims at Dunkirk COMMUNIQUES issued from general headquarters to-day were as follows: ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 14 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

“ Liege Fort Surrenders ”

... badly damaged by bombs. The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover. German high-speed boats torpedoed and sank an enemy destroyer off Dunkirk.” The Air Ministry states that there is no truth in the German claim that Dover ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Navies Pound Th&

... Navies Pound Th& In the Dunkirk area are pounding the Nazis and . and French Air Force are high explosives on them. In Berlin it is admitted British must have extricating a number of their Semi-official Berlin reports front stated that the British d were ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BRITISH RESISTING STUBBORNLY, SAY NAZIS BERLIN, Friday. rpe-DAYS German High Command communique states: While ..

... broken in short time. , • The attack against the rest of the British Army in the loop between Fumes. Bcrgues and west of Dunkirk is The loop is only a lew miles deep, flat, and has been flooded. . . . The enemy is resisting here stubbornly, the aim ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FUGITIVE SHIP

... FUGITIVE SHIP The Danish steamer Australien (6,652 tons), which took refuge at Zeebrugge on April 28, left that port to-day for Dunkirk. It is understood she is bound for Singapore.—Reuter. ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 30 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Official News To-Day’s Communiques FRENCH (11 A.M.) the North operations are continuing with the same ..

... FRENCH (11 A.M.) the North operations are continuing with the same bitterness around the fortified area —camp retranche —of Dunkirk. the Somme and on the Aisne, some local infantry actions by both sides. Between the Aisne and the Meuse, artillery duels of ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 505 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MASS R.A.F. ATTACKS °N ENEMY COLUMNS

... battles remained to be fought on the Central Somme-Aisne Front before the outcome of the war is decided. French Marines At Dunkirk Dunkirk, the principal French port still in Allied bands, has now been transformed into an entrenched camp and is strongly held ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1225 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DANISH SHIP LEAVES BELGIAN

... Thursday. The Danish steamer Australieu (6,652 tone) which took refuge at Zeebrugge on April 28. left that port to-day for Dunkirk. It is understood that she i 9 bound for Singapore.—Reuter. ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: 3 | Tags: none