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DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Evacuation Coes On 'Vk'-f* ave cont 'oued uninterruotedlv 'k/ fk ltl drawa, °f their troops from Dunkirk the tißhting there has reached a ferocity unparalleled in p a ris PreSent Campaign accord 'ng to reports reaching The Germans have been attacking ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DEFENCE LINES

... being quickly and safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. -JH morning's French w«r iunique states: north opct aliens are with the same bitterness ; fortified area of Dunkirk. • Somme and the Aisne infantry actions both ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE BELGIAN TASK

... THE BELGIAN TASK Th? Belgian Army’s task bad been to defied ««Aor north Dunkirk while the British and French were responsible for the regions to the south ana west estimated that some 300.000 Belgians have laid down their arms accordance with King Leopold's ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POILUS IN ENGLAND

... POILUS IN ENGLAND More trench troops from Dunkirk were landed in England today. Nearly ail of them carried their complete k and several possessed prized souvenir* ot the historic battle. On# man brought with him ignition key It wii all that remained of ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ROWED IN LIFEBOAT

... ROWED IN LIFEBOAT “A* went into Dunkirk, there were rm«n aeroplanes over all the time ‘The skipper made for the beach and I an,) A.B took a lifeboat to TOW the soldiers to the ship. We could take only eight at a time, but on each trip, about uaded out ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS SLA UGH TERED IN THOUSANDS

... course of the night.*' HIS ADVENTURE AT DUNKIRK . Volunteer Helped to Row Troops From Beaches A man who. until few ueek» ago. wa> a cinema manager in London suburb, today recoun'.ered his adventures ia the inferno Dunkirk He responded an appeal for men to help ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1371 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

U.B. ADMIRATION

... meaning of the word.’* “Lout” Minesweeper Is Safe Of the 24 minor war vessels lost In the operations dur ng the withdrawal from Dunkirk one is now- safe. This was announced when early today the Admiralty made the following correction to last night's naval bulletin; ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BATTLE RAGING NEAR OLD YPRES SALIENT

... troops on land are receiving the realist possible assistance, both from combined British and French Air from naval units. At Dunkirk, Vice-Admiral Abrial open the lines ot communicafcon Mttile Allied aircraft, working in dose collaboration, are striking blow ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Still Held Off

... every kind of craft plied to and fro across the bomb-splashed waters of the Channel. THE German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by rising flood waters which Allied engineers have released over the Flanders plain, has wdoubled its efforts to cut off the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FOUR A.M. SURRENDER

... y capltu'n the midst of tattle tho ita king, without having •srnjd their French and British arms and opening tho road *• Dunkirk to the Gorman divisions. HIS PRETENCE” days ago the same lung appeal for help. To responded according drawn up by the Allied ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HAD TO LIVE IN WOODS

... whenever * '* bombed and machine-gunned frequent intervals •' .. . however, they mmgt never got nearer than 18 inches to me. Dunkirk, which reached after days *'‘ , ' vrrriPr; was ‘warm’ so L.Sergt Crome mover! again and after tramping over miles of sanddunes ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DON’T RELY ON GREENGROCER

... three of them I was bombed. On our last night in Holland were bombed. Zeebrugge. Belgium, we slept through an air aid. and in Dunkirk were bombed again. Only when back in England did 1 have an urdisturbed night. Ostend we watched German ’planes sweep down ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 1 | Tags: none