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HOME FOR LEAVE AND WEDDING Angus Captain Tells of Ten-Hour Air Attack Captain David Chapel, second son of ..

... is home for a short leave. Captain L'haptl, who is in the Royal Artillery, left Dunkirk the week-end and arrived home yesterday morning. Seven hundred men, said, left Dunkirk at the same time. They were due to sail eight o'clock in the morning, but the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Fighting Round Ypres

... fighting is continuing to-night round Ypres and Kemmel. German airmen report that Dunkirk has been burning for three days. It is also stated that there is street fighting in Dunkirk. —The Associated Press. NAZI COMMUNIQUE 4 BRITISH ARMY FACING DESTRUCTION A ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 318 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Communiques

... Communiques Nazi Claims at Dunkirk COMMUNIQUES issued from general headquarters to-day were as follows: ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 14 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

40 GER _ MAA T DIVISIONS » Thrown Into Battle ALLIES' SLOW RETIREMENT

... the French Medical Corps on the way in which Allied iroops are being taken off ai Dunkirk . The officer , himself a member of the Northern Army who ivas embarked at , Dunkirk and landed at another French ' port , expressed the utmost admiration at the efficiency ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SAY- “PRIOUX IS TAKEN”

... insisted that none of the|ceeding! French forces had surrendered aombed übmarin dux’ vanguard, two divisions olasted its way to Dunkirk through the German columns which strove to cut Its line of retreat near Cassel. it was stated. The rearguard was following ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STILL HOLD OUT SOLIDLY And West Of Yser Canal

... the Allied navies and the protection of our war planes more and more troops are being quickly and safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Dunkirk itself is holding out magnificently. The inundations extending south-west and north-east of this entrenched camp are ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRENCH ARMY HACKING WAY TO

... Friday ‘Press Association ar Special)— Allied troops are continuing to hold out solidly, not only In the lomhed area of Dunkirk, almost completely surrounded flood waters, but also io the West of the Yser Canal, tne French military spokesman staled to-day ...

Navies Pound Th&

... Navies Pound Th& In the Dunkirk area are pounding the Nazis and . and French Air Force are high explosives on them. In Berlin it is admitted British must have extricating a number of their Semi-official Berlin reports front stated that the British d were ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Only Survivor

... magnetic mine and sank, and he, after swimming for some time, was the only one to be rescued. The beaches and sand dunes around Dunkirk hare been alive with troops for the past three waiting to be evacuated and being evacuated. At more and more frequent intervals ...