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Germans Bomb Hostel

... Germans Bomb Hostel At Dunkirk they went a Salvation Army hostel for what they thought would be good night's sleep. She had just got undressed when the Germans started bombing the place. was the most frightful experience I have ever had, she said. My ...

HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER THURSDAY MAY 30 (5 ERMANS THROW OVER MILLION MEN INTO FLANDERS BATTLE BEF CONTINUE ..

... Air Ministry our fighters are missing MAIN BEF DEPOTS REMAIN IN BRITISH HANDS TT’IGHTING with the desperate through t the Dunkirk the principal French in now into entrenched camp strongly by French command Vice-Admiral Abrial Calais and Units still putting ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DESTROYER DESTROYED

... them I was bombed. On our last night in Holland we were bombed. In Zeebrugge. Belgium, we slept through an air raid and in Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. “At Ostend watched German ’planes sweep down ...

NIGHT FIGHTING BY LIGHT OF FIRES

... receiving the greatest possible assistance both from the combined British and French air forces and from naval units. At Dunkirk, Vice Admiral Abrial is keeping open the lines of communication, while Allied aircraft, working in close collaboration, are ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CALAIS HELD DESPITE NAZI CLAIM

... Germans have advanced almost as far as Ypres in the Menin area, and that they have captured Calais after a grim fight. Dunkirk, it is claimed, was destroyed by fire. The French Military Spokesman said to-day that the German losses were enormous on ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GERMAN COMMUNIQUE Successful Attacks on Channel Ports BERLIN, Wednesday To-day's German communique stated: ..

... Channel coast was continued yesterday North-Westward St. Pol and Montreuil-«ur-Mer. The harbour and docks at Ostend. Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again by the German air force. In Flanders the enemy resisted toughly cover ...

given In a broadcast by M. Reynaud, the French Prime Minister, at 8.30 a.m. France can no longer count

... Army and the British Army are now fighting alone against the enemy in the North. M. Roynaud pointed out that the road to Dunkirk—through which the three Allied Armies In the North received their supplieshad been opened to the German divisions. Paris ...

DON'T SPREAD RUMOURS

... in dames near the same place. When a Hurriran/ attacke7l a formation of 30 Heingel and Dornieit bombers between Caleis and Dunkirk. their protecting Messer:ichtnitt 1012 s held off from the fight. Tne Hurricanes first shot clown Inc ana probably seven of ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

e'sourier a Guarbtan Tuesday, May 211, Mt A King's Decision

... battle. on the order of the King. without having warned their French and British comrades in arms, and opened the road to Dunkirk to the German divisions. M Reynaud does not spare the King. He reminds him of the help he sought and Was given, of his a ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 525 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CROOK HIPPODROME

... German soldiers equipped with a preponderating weight of metal, the Allied front Is still unbroken, and the embarkation at Dunkirk steadily proceeds. Overhead the R.A.F. is performing prodigies of valour. Outnumbered though they are, our Defiants and Hurricanes ...

Nazi Tanks Wrecked: Torpedo Boat Sunk

... near the same place. When a Hurricane squadron attacked a formation of 30 Heinkel and Dornier bombers between Calais and Dunkirk their protecting Messerschmitt 100's held off from the fight. The Hurricanes first shot down five, and probably seven of the ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Courier a C3uarbian Wednesday, May 29, 1940. Fighting On

... faced. The most outstanding of these is the peril of the British Army, hemmed in on three sides and with its main port of Dunkirk threatened. In his broadcast, last night. Mr. Duff- Cooper referred to the necessity of withdrawal though we may be sure that ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 2 | Tags: none