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... five through time. We* pushed our car for two miles to save petrol, and then made for Dunkirk where we saw our local agents and arranged for transport over here. *• Dunkirk wa* bombed while we vere there and they dropped parachute and incendiary'bomb*. But ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 729 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER Allies’ Faith in Their Strategy Still Stands

... frontier zone, and one cannot think that France wants its northern provinces wrecked again. Moreover, the strategic railway from Dunkirk to Metz, which the Boches found so useful in the last war for lateral communication, would be denied to the Allies if the ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 819 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REFUGEES ARRIVE AT

... Gare de* PEst in large numbers. There were very few Dutch among them, and to-day’s contingent came mostly from the Ardennes, Dunkirk, Bethune, Ha.zebrouck, Lille and Tourcoing. Well-organised arrangements had been made to receive the refugees and to send ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 857 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MESCTI ALLIES’ ALL IN THREE DAYS -BERLIN ADMISSION WOUNDED BEF MEN ARRIVE IN BIRMINGHAM CONVERTED BUSES AS ..

... German communique of 17 May claims that a destroyer was sunk by aeroplanes in the port of Dunkirk that a cruiser and a cargo vessel were seriously damaged off Dunkirk that two Frerich destroyers were damaged and a transport so badly hit that it had to be ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1964 | Page: 10 | Tags: none