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Co ON FIGHTING

... road to Dunkirk to the liermans, the Allied Command has never lost its coolness for a moment., The watchword immediately went out, The British and French go on fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defend the sector north of Dunkirk, while the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. FIGMENT' G REARGUARD ACrITONS. LLIED troops were fighting stubbornly last night in Northern France in a ..

... desperate bid to cut through German concentrations to the coast, while Allied naval forces firmly held the fortified area of Dunkirk, it is stated in Paris. British and French units were also still in possession of a part of Calais earlier in the evening ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRENCH WAR COMMUNIQUE. PARIS. Wednesday

... of Ostend. received from its King the order to cease fire, thus opening to the enemy the road to Ypres. to Fumes. and to Dunkirk. VERY HARD FIGHTINC. Since then our troops. under the command of General Blanchard and General Prioux. in close collaboration ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

the • – I A GIRMAN CLAIMS. BERLIN, Wednesday

... Is only 25 miles wide at its widest point. German troops advancing in northern Flanders towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. Dunkirk, it is claimed, is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its hattour has been ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

announcement

... member of the Council of the Ministry of Construction, 1917-18. 22 FOR 0. • Fight Off Dunkirk To Defend B.E.F. IN a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night, a formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of a large force of ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Javy. _ punishing the advancing enemy. going on. Three of our destroyers have been sank in the withdrawal, ..

... Special. French Reach Dunkirk. PARIS, Thursday. ' The vanguard of General Prioursl Army. ronsisting of two divisiolle.' has blasted way out of the Gerona trap to Flanders by means of a furious tank battle, and has reached Dunkirk, a French military authority ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1130 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

of tha Deflants was bit but was able to return home. From this machihe the gunner Jumped, apparently believing that

... the Nazis vanished. _ . Then the British squadron saw two formations of nine Henkel bombers Ithat were attempting to bomb Dunkirk. I but all their bombs fell into the sea. Later the squadron encountered a number of Messerschmitt 110 twinengine fighters ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DESTROTInt NIT

... e are in German hands. The German Air Force bombed the communication line leading to Zeebrugge, N:e u port. 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: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WILL FIGHT TO THE IND

... WILL FIGHT TO THE IND. The courses open to the Northern Army are painfully few. So long as Dunkirk an be held some. as Mr. Duff indie.ated to-night, may be extricated by sea. \ow that all responsibility to the 11- knaris on the left is at an end it may ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 1 | Tags: none