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COUNTER-STROKES

... English fight well. The German advance Is governed our counterstrokes as We move to the entrenched line that is Calais and Dunkirk. We might have been at Ostend to-day, but our way was made hard a craven King who can now have a villa there. The B.E.F. must ...

Priest's Microphone

... walked 50 miles before we reached Dunkirk. We had dinner in Ostend on Wednesday noon, and apart from little bread and butter given us on the way had nothing else until 11 pm. next day. We got on board another boat at Dunkirk, and eventually started for home ...

German Communique

... three transports and one tanker have been sunk, and one destroyer severely damaged. Harbour works Dunkirk and Dover were bombed. German speedboats off Dunkirk sank enemy destroyer by torpedo. Activity of both Air Forces was limited by the weather. The ...

Bid for Ostend

... miles from Saint Omcr, that is say the flank the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and attempted to approach Dunkirk. The aim of the German Command launching repeated and very costly attacks in the sector between the Meuse and the Aisne is ...

THE NAZI VERSION

... been broken in a short time. The attack against the rest of the British army In the loop between Fumes, Bergues and west of Dunkirk, proceeding. The loop only few miles deep, flat, and has been flooded. The enemy Is resisting here stubbornly, the aim being ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

French and Britiah aeroplanes constantly bombed the enemy

... the Belgian King, the Allies were fighting with the same determination. Effect of Surrender German artillery blaated away Dunkirk and Calais, but those ports, with Zeebrugge, remained In Allied hands. The Immediate effect of King Leopold's surrender appeared ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WHITSUNTIDE-

... MAY 11th and 18th and AUGUST 3rd and 10th—but will open FRIDAYS. MAY 10th and AUGUST 2nd. from 2 0 p.m. to 7.0 p.m. BRAMLEY Dunkirk House, Town Street CROSS GATES S, Station Road DEWSBURY ROAD 267, Dewsbury Road ROUNDHAY —Corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and ...

Published: Thursday 02 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Broke Up In Air

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

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The British Navy and Air Force is tak-

... Nevertheless vhls army Is resisting, and trying to make up tor lu inferiority In numbers by narrowing Its front. The port Dunkirk Is entrenched camp firmly held and supported by the heavy guns the Fleet. —Press Association War Special. ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAZI CLAIMS

... evening and during the night, German air units composed of two strong forces, attacked the coastal area and the sea between Dunkirk and Ostend. They attacked British warships and troopships which were attempting to embark the remnants of the British Exp ...

The Latest German Claims

... asserted, is only miles wide its widest point. German troops advancing Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk arc stated to have reached the River Yser. Dunkirk. claimed. now within range of the German heavy artillery, and its harbour has been destroyed ...

Entrenched Camp

... Lille region and fighting fiercely the Prioux Army Is. however, slowly retiring in the direction of the entrenched camp Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The Inundations extending Southwest and North-East of the entrenched camp are now ...