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... by deadly combats in most sectors between Allied and enemy units- which are closely intermingled! Dunkirk Heavily Bombed lip units still held out in Dunkirk lias been heavily bombed but the town not directly threatened TANK BOARD TO BE SET UP Mr Herbert ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1459 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

250,000 MORE ALLOTMENTS ARE NEEDED Women Will Be Appealed To AT least 250,000 more allotments are needed if the dig

... them I was bombed. On our last night in Holland we were bombed In Zeebrugge. Belgium. we slept through an air raid and in Dunkirk we were bombed again. Only when back in England did I have an undisturbed night. At Ostend we watched German planes sweep ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Courier a C3uarbian Wednesday, May 29, 1940. Fighting On

... faced. The most outstanding of these is the peril of the British Army, hemmed in on three sides and with its main port of Dunkirk threatened. In his broadcast, last night. Mr. Duff- Cooper referred to the necessity of withdrawal though we may be sure that ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

French Inflict Heavy Losses On S-E.F. Germans: Still Intact

... that the losses a, by the Germans are particularly heavy.” est - with regard to the Channel coast is given are still holding Dunkirk and that French detachments are still inside Calais. On the Rhine, particularly towards the Swiss end, French artillery has ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 605 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Berlin and the Capitulation

... Bourbourg—are in German hands. The German air force bombed the communication lines leading to Zeebrugge, Nieuports, Ostende and Dunkirk well the ports and ships in the ports. An enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover. On the Southern front ...

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

Situation Not Desperate

... decision, he will have last that which he set out to gain. With the enemy now striving to occupy the coast line from Denmark to Dunkirk, the problem of home defence passes to-day from the status of preparation for an eventuality to inclusion in the war zone ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 684 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GERMAN ACCOUNT King Leopold Gave Up Senseless Resistance COMPLETE SURRENDER GERMAN HIGH COMMAND CLARIS ..

... are in German hands . The German air force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge , Nieuport , Ostend , and Dunkirk , as well as the ports and ships in the ports . An enemy destroyer was hit by a bomb between Calais and Dover . On the southern ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

They Fight On

... to report on the rest of the front. I WITH the capitulation of King Leopold opening to the enemy the road to Ostend and Dunkirk, the B.E.F. is now facing from north, south and east the onslaught of Nazi aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry. The unbeaten ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NEW BELGIAN FORCES TO CONTINUE STRUGGLE ' ? . Premier Denounces King Leopold ' s Surrender UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT ..

... Force , and some French divisions . This group of three Armies was commanded by 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 . WITHOUT ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1843 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A WAR DIARY FRIDAY

... Commander-in-Chief. SUNDAY Military circles in Paris stated that French troops are firmly holding the four ports Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend and Zeebrugge, that German armoured units have succeeded in entering Bolougne, but that French defenders are solidly ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 618 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Official News To-Day’s Communiques FRENCH (Published 11.45). Our troops are resisting desperate enemy efforts ..

... broken down. The British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dixmude, Ai’mentieres, Bailleul, and Bergues, west of Dunkirk, is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. In a swift push through Flanders, German forces marched through ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 703 | Page: 6 | Tags: none