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THE HALIFAX DAILY COURIER ' ALLIES HOLD SOLIDLY TO DUNKIRK AREA While Masterly Withdrawal CANRTUII ..

... THE HALIFAX DAILY COURIER ' ALLIES HOLD SOLIDLY TO DUNKIRK AREA While Masterly Withdrawal CANRTUII-SAEIRRORLOASFTT of Other Forces Continues Hi& Curlew Sunk During Norway Operations Many of them had not had a square meal for nearly a week. Bakers worked ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1377 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BITTER BATTLE AROUND DUNKIRK -FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. British Forces Resisting Stubbornly —GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. Paris. ..

... BITTER BATTLE AROUND DUNKIRK -FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. British Forces Resisting Stubbornly —GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. Paris. Friday. This mornings French war communique stated: In the North. operations are continuing with the same bitterness around the foi titled ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lille Fighting

... partly occupied by the Germans, hut the spokesman said that some French troops are still holding out there. Fortifying Dunkirk Dunkirk being fortified French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night. He satisfied ...

COMMUNIQUES

... the road to Dunkirk to the Germans the Allied Command has never lost Its coolness for a moment. The watchword Immediately went out The British and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector North of Dunkirk while the ...

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... French troops are being safely landed in England, their comrades are conducting operations with the same.bitterness around Dunkirk, according to to-day’s French official communique. It is officially announced by the Belgian authorities in Paris that Belgian ...

Co ON FIGHTING

... road to Dunkirk to the liermans, the Allied Command has never lost its coolness for a moment., The watchword immediately went out, The British and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Leopold's Order Against Unanimous Will of His Ministers

... B.E.F. and some French divisions. This group of three armies was commanded by General Blancha• Cl. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. 'The British and the French Armies defended this port in the South and in the West. the Belgian Army in the North. The ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

B.E.F. FIGMENT' G REARGUARD ACrITONS. LLIED troops were fighting stubbornly last night in Northern France in a ..

... desperate bid to cut through German concentrations to the coast, while Allied naval forces firmly held the fortified area of Dunkirk, it is stated in Paris. British and French units were also still in possession of a part of Calais earlier in the evening ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIGHTING THROUGH

... fortified area Dunkirk, completely eurrounded flood water*, but to tbe west of Canal, the French military epokeeman stated today. The army of General Prloux. which was hemmed near Lille, continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. Already ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SKILFUL REARGUARD FIGHTS AS B.E.F. FALL BACK

... Calais DUNKIRK FIRMLY HELD: R.A.F.'s GREAT WORK The King's Grateful Words to Our Troops Fighting skilful rearguard actions, the British and French troops in Flanders, it was learned early to-day, continued their well-ordered withdrawal on Dunkirk. ONE of ...

FRENCH WAR COMMUNIQUE. PARIS. Wednesday

... of Ostend. received from its King the order to cease fire, thus opening to the enemy the road to Ypres. to Fumes. and to Dunkirk. VERY HARD FIGHTINC. Since then our troops. under the command of General Blanchard and General Prioux. in close collaboration ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none