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WEYGAND’S COUNTERATTACK WHEN ALLIED ARMIES REUNITE

... bombed the last ar, but not thoroughly as they will be this time, and doubtless the enemy will concentrate their efforts Dunkirk. Calais, Boulogne. Dieppe, and Havre. Thasa places art, fsrtunataly. defended by anti-aircraft guns, and the Royal Air Fores ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 657 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Reynaud’s Revelation of Incredible Mistakes” CHANNEL PORTS BOMBED BY GERMAN PLANES PARACHUTISTS SPIES AIDED ..

... Amiens in their drive towards the Channel jiorts. The Nazi Press claimed last night that German aeroplanes had bombed Ostend, Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Calais, and admitted strong Allied resistance at Ghent and along the Kiver Scheldt. British Bravery in Norway ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 935 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

In Two Days

... and fighters and put another 20 out of action. A continuous air battle was fought over the French coast between Calais and Dunkirk. Pilots reported that the sky was filled with aircraft. Flew Shattered Plane Home Safely A Spitfire pilot came safely back ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 931 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

27 1940 BROADCASTING IN PAGE THREE NO MAY newspaper French Firmly Holding Channel Ports I EPIC BATTLE OF BOULOGNE :

... Firmly Holding Channel Ports I EPIC BATTLE OF BOULOGNE : PARIS NOTE OF CONFIDENCE FRENCH troops are firmly holding Calais Dunkirk Ostend and Zeebrugge it was announced in Paris late last night and the German communique speaks of tough resistance” The capture ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3104 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

YOU SHOULD READ

... relatives, and homes, driven away by a common enemy. They had five days at sea aboard little trawler and were delayed two days at Dunkirk, where they suffered bombardment. Some of them would serve in the Army and had only left because they were urged to do so ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1505 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ToL-UPLANDS Reception Rooms Kitchen and Scullery 5 Bedrooms Bathroom and Lavatory Back entranoe room for Garage ..

... some French divisions This group of three armies was commanded by General Blanchard WITHOUT WARNING - It was provisioned via Dunkirk The British and the French armies defended this port in the south and in the Avest the Belgian army in the north “The Belgian ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4517 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

?8 1940 BROADCASTING PAGE THREE NO 20900 TUESDAY MAY 28 ELGIAN ARMY CEASES FIGHTING BY ORDER OF KING Belgium Will

... Aire is a few miles from St Omer on the flank of the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and attempted to approach Dunkirk progress towards south-west in this region could not fail to produce a repercussion on the German push towards coast Calais ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EVENING POST TUESDAY 28 I WAS NEVER SO EMBARRASSED I KNEW'' THAT ACID-INDIGESTION WAS DISTRESSING TO ME AND ..

... his Army whose resistance has ceased are the British Expeditionary Force and some French divisions The defection exposes Dunkirk from which port the armies are provisioned to attack from the North The reasons for this amazing defection remain inscrutable ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3204 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

4 SOUTH WALES EVENING MAY 27 ACID STOMACH I -V Where! that sunny smile that merry whistle that schoolboy appetite

... -DAY’S news opened on firmer note The French admitted the final loss of Boulogne but intimated that the remaining ports Calais Dunkirk and Ostend were strongly garrisoned On the northern wing the Allied armies held their ground against German pushes from the ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3986 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOUTH WALES EVENING POST SATURDAY MAY 25 CROWDS WELCOME FIRST BELGIAN REFUGEES SWANSEA klAYOR GREETS PARTY: ..

... were from Ostend but others came from Brussels and Malines BOMBED AT PORTS found passage on small fishing boats Some went to Dunkirk and others to Boulogne It was near these ports that they were bombed and machine-gunned Flemish was the predominant language ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4163 | Page: 5 | Tags: none