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r1 THE LEICESTER MERCURY FRIDAY 31st MAY - 'From Page One Dunkirk A Fortress With Qigantic Moat evacuation it is

... tied area camp wtranche oil Dunkirk On the Somme' and on the Alsnel some local infantry action bv both sides Between the Aisne and the artillery duels of some violence Ik Mi1m' an enemy raid Was repulsed GERMAN CLAIMS -Dunkirk Allied Air :r- Tnnrawai ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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-k ' iiTHE LEICESTER MERCURY THURSDAY MAY BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS be Births and itrnioriftms (duly -h:iri:e : j ..

... and on aea off Dunkirk and Otitcnd warahlna and 16 tranaport inciuains:aonia oioer 15000- intehaire ooncenlrlb attack- continued rturty-one more received uirertnits were heavily ere immobilised and otnera on The sluices In Dunkirk Harbour were completely ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2309 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

''' - ' ' r-i:-: -— - LARGEST CERTIFIED NET SALE WEDNESDAY MAY 1940 Phone 58544 Mr! Henry: Smith KBOA

... by deadly combats in most sectors between Allied and enemy units- which are closely intermingled! Dunkirk Heavily Bombed lip units still held out in Dunkirk lias been heavily bombed but the town not directly threatened TANK BOARD TO BE SET UP Mr Herbert ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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- LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY 28th MAY 1940 - ' -v ilReynaud SaY$— I ' STARTS 9 am TO-MORROW ! 4

... without and I must tell worked - la she I you but I find say good can voura truly 13 3- Tin BELGIANS HAVE OPENED WAY: TO DUNKIRK KOADCASTIXG to-day M Rcynaud the French Prime Minister said: must announce to French people a grave event which occurred during ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1420 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

- THE LEICESTER MERCURY MAY 1940 'V 5 Police Hurit-For r Boy In Vain Haired for AT' Clarfcanwell London Court

... to-day adding that tlie qpcnipg shot will from German long-range guns at Calais Popolo d'Rotna commenting on reports Dunkirk and 'OMcnd arc threatened declares that England thus about to lose her last bridgehead on the Continent - The Democracies ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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IE— LEICESTER MERCURY' TUESDAY MAY Prizes iForAtgem PLATK of- ia ynnr-giiia luriopti CAN HII T FrmilurT1 ..

... been on the front MerviIIe bonrgvjl'le' in German liands The German Air Force the Jine leading to Zeebrugge Xieuport Ostend Dunkirk well the ports and in the ' ports - - hit r bom between Calais' and JOn enemy have repulsed In of thesefightf -30 enemy were ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE LEICESTER MERCURY SATURDAY 25th MAY SALES BY AUCTION MARKET H iiiiil ami -M'IL Y Al'CTION MnXLAY S7ih 1940 10

... several -days before the Woods 4ook flight With the aid two and a push chair of eleven with countless other refugees walked to Dunkirk where they managed to get a boat for Dover are now little the worse for their mghtmareexperience of machine-gunning bombing ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2055 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

L YHE LEICESTER MERCURY THURSDAY 23rd MAY 1940 BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS Nnt-ri't both' Birth Marrl -Death and ..

... rjombs uerman Air rorce aisoiby squadron of Blemheim long-range which have succeeded in reachinc the successfully bombed ports Dunkirk fighters A fourth bomber was neighbourhood of the coast — - -steps are oeing taKen guara ' - vital points against tnese d ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2512 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

I- -8- THEIICESTER-MERajRYrWEDNESDAy22nd-MAYi-1940 BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS Notice of (which nut a tiihrni ..

... German troops to the Channel Coast continued yesterday north-westwards towards St Pol snd Monlreuil-sux-Mer harbour docks Dunkirk Calais Boulogne and successfully attacked by Oerman Air Force In Flanders toachlv caver their retreat Scheldt An attaok ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2643 | Page: 8 | Tags: none