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WAY TO DUNKIRK OPENED

... WAY TO DUNKIRK OPENED M. Reynaud said the King of the Belgians ordered his Army to lay down their arms at four o'clock this morning, thus opening the way for German'divisions to Dunkirk. The B.E.F. and the French forces in Belgium are using Dunkirk as their ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 6 | 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

FRANCE'S PREMIER on the BELGIAN SURRENDER

... the B.E.P. and some French divisions. This group of three armies was commanded by Oenerml Blanchard. It >u provisioned vie Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army the north. The Belgian ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BLOCKADE CONCESSIONS FOR ITALY

... open. The opening shot will come from German long-range guns- Calais. Popolo Roma,'' commenting on German reports that Dunkirk and Ostend are threatened, declares that England Is thus about to lose her last bridgehead on the Continent. The democracies ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FASCIST H.Q. RAIDED

... badly damaged by bombs The German Air Force also succesafullv bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover. German high speed boats torpedoed and sank enemy destroyer off Dunkirk. In general, the activity of the air forces both sides was limited by weather conditions ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 8 | 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

B.E.F. IN DANCER OF BEING CUT OFF FROM SEA

... Belgium in answer to King Leopold's own urgent appeal for aid, are in danger of being cut off from their Channel base at Dunkirk. The Belgian Premier this afternoon declared in a broadcast over the French radio that the Belgian Government had no part ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 542 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A CRAVEN KING

... Albert, surrendered his army and his country to the enemy early this morning and thus opened the Way lor Qerman divisions to Dunkirk. This inglorious act, of bitter consequence to the British and French armies who answered this same King's call for help only ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S COMMUNIQUES French Itoemy pressure continue* the direction the coast the form raids small motorlsed ..

... Channel coast was continued yesterday north-westward Bt. Pol and Montreullaur-Mer. Tbe harbour and dock, Ostend, Calais, Dunkirk. Boulogne and Dieppe were successfully attacked again the German air force Flanders the enemy resisted toughly cover their ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Removing railings from Woodhouse Moor for the scrap metal campaign

... managed to reach the French border, from whence the great trek of refugees began when the frontier was opened. We got train to Dunkirk, where we managed to get car. but we were forced to beg borrow, or steal petrol. After Rouen the road was one solid stumbling ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

UNCONSTITUTIONAL

... Bourbourgville are in German hands. The German air force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge. Nieuport. Ostend and Dunkirk, well the ports and ships In the ports. enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb Calais and Dover. On the southern front enemy attacks ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LIKE AN

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still the enemy's hands. The port of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. No Important events on the Southern Front. The German air force also attacked aerodromes the vicinity ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1300 | Page: 6 | Tags: none