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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

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

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

Narvik

... iron ore railway against a vastly superior enemy. ----•- -- -, ---z----- ------------ .4,cr • Dionude Thie/It uNCIRIAIr. • DUNKIRK ------------ -- CALAIS Gravelines '4 E ` '• ' . T ' h' Roukrs .N EL( , 4. ) B , Ar' I:::ADEL HAS Oulnarde Now FALLEN • ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. CHECK ENEMY IN BIG BATTLE

... French communique. This sector is on the flank of the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and tried to approach Dunkirk. The fiercest German offensive was launched against the Belgians on a twenty-five-mile front in the Menin-Courtrai area. This ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 556 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Official War Communiqués Allied Troops Hold Up Advance Near Menin

... air force renewed its attacks on those ports on the Belgian and French Channel coast still in enemy hands. The harbour of Dunkirk is in flames. _ ..--- Ou the southern front there were no important engagements. During the fighting of the past few ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Kook This W air Hook

... are still in the ship H . . . enemy s hands. This took them aboard and brought Scheldt near Valenciennes were “The port of Dunkirk was destroyed them to a South Coast port yesterday. reported in yesterday morning's Iby fire. French communique. j ,%,. „ ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1094 | Page: 3 | Tags: none