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** Dunkirk Firr”

... ** Dunkirk Firr” Attacks against the German positions north-west of Lens, carried out by French colonial troops, were repulsed with heavy losses for the enemy. Calais was captured after a grim fight, as already reported. In Boulogne German tank fired ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Is BB: NAVY SHELLS ENEMY

... Is NAVY SHELLS ENEMY B RITISH and French troops last night held Calais and Dunkirk. The French official communique stated that Boulogne had been taken by the Germans after fierce street fighting. But Paris reported that Allied forces still hold the town's ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

12.Allti$

... movement it will mean they have broken the Allied pressure on the northern bend of the bulge, and will be driving towards Ypres, Dunkirk and Ostend. ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

—Paris Spokesman M REYNAUD, French Premier, late last night summoned his Cabinet to the • Elysee. President ..

... in crossing it they would have broken the Allied pressure on the northern bend of the bulge and be driving towards Ypres, Dunkirk and Ostend, Heavy Enemy Losses The oattle of Menin and Courtrai, he said, was continuing with violence along a 25-mile front ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Homeward hound

... them. They made off. Two or three half-hearted attempts at bombing followed in the morning. By this time the evacuation of Dunkirk had been begun. After the last few refugees had reached our ship, left the harbour, passed down the coast, and made uneventful ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Continued from page One R.A.F. SINK WARSHIP

... Continued from page One R.A.F. SINK WARSHIP On this occasion a Hurricane squadron between Calais and Dunkirk spotted a formation of 30 Heinkel and Dornier bombers. Above them, protection guard, was another formation of Messerschmitt 110’s. Immediately ...

Published: Sunday 26 May 1940
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 138 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Crowded out

... Germans were by now sweeping towards the coast, sending death and destruction ahead with their air armada. I decided to get to Dunkirk, just over 15 miles away. All train and vices were suspended. It was impossible to get a conveyance of any kindeven to buy ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Calais Ours Claim

... German Air Force renewed its attacks on those ports on the Belgian and French coast still in Allied hands. The harbour of Dunkirk is in flames. Attacks by the German Air Force were carried out against aerodromes near Paris The Allied losses amounted yesterday ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

schind our fi we retaliated on three towns behind

... St. Pol and Montreuil-sur-Mcr Thc t tension Icw d Quays and pon facilities of OstenriJ considerably eased, and thc French Dunkirk. Calais. Boulogne and Dicppe „„, i „„ uh were again successfully raided by thej— counter-atSck, German Air Force. _ . ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 191 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FIGHT RAGES FOR RIVER

... enemy losses. In the west of Artois, German troops advanced their wedge to the north towards Calais. Harbour facilities at Dunkirk and Dover were effectively bombed. The Dover bombing was denied in London.] —Associated Press. ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 16 | Tags: none