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General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the ..

... General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army in the north. UNCONDITIONAL CAPITULATION The Belgian Army has now suddenly and unconditionally capitulated ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FIGHTING IN FRANCE

... about 22,000 tons. One destroyer was badly damaged by bombs. The German Air Force also successfully bombed the ports of Dunkirk and Dover.” OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES French To-day’s French Official communique states: the North fighting continues with the ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

The German Claims “CALAIS CAPTURED AFTER GRIM FIGHT” BERLIN. Monday. German forces are continuing their attacks ..

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still in the enemy’s hands. The fort of Dunkirk was destroyed by fire. important events on the southern front.” Informed circles in London stated last night that there is ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 145 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A GRA VE POSITION

... warning. The result is that the left wing of the sorely-tried Allied Army has collapsed, and the road has been thrown open to Dunkirk, through which port the semi - beleaguered Allied forces were being provisioned. King Leopold has, in effect, made the Germans ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1009 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY fiERCE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS

... that the opening shot will come from German long-range guns at Calais. Popolo di 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. y ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1535 | Page: 1 | Tags: none