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Dunkirk Operations

... Dunkirk Operations At Dunkirk the combined Allied air forces are giving effective protection to the embarkation of wounded, and of troops which are not needed for the defence of the fortified area, and also to the unloading of supplies and medical stores ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ROAD TO DUNKIRK

... ROAD TO DUNKIRK the North there was a group of three Allied armies—the Belgian Array, the B.E.F. and some French divisions. This group of three armies, under the command of General Blanchard, was supplied by way Dunkirk. The French and British Annies ...

EMBARKATION OF ALLIED TROOPS AT DUNKIRK B.E.F. GETTING OUT OF TRAP

... safely embarked, despite intensive German air attacks on Dunkirk. Sweeping claims to have inflicted damage at Dunkirk on Allied naval units were made in a special communique issued by the German High Command in Berlin to-day. This communi ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Lille Fighting

... partly occupied by the Germans, hut the spokesman said that some French troops are still holding out there. Fortifying Dunkirk Dunkirk being fortified French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night. He satisfied ...

COMMUNIQUES

... the road to Dunkirk to the Germans 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 ...

FIGHTING THROUGH

... fortified area Dunkirk, completely eurrounded flood water*, but to tbe west of Canal, the French military epokeeman stated today. The army of General Prloux. which was hemmed near Lille, continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. Already ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SKILFUL REARGUARD FIGHTS AS B.E.F. FALL BACK

... Calais DUNKIRK FIRMLY HELD: R.A.F.'s GREAT WORK The King's Grateful Words to Our Troops Fighting skilful rearguard actions, the British and French troops in Flanders, it was learned early to-day, continued their well-ordered withdrawal on Dunkirk. ONE of ...

COUNTER-STROKES

... English fight well. The German advance Is governed our counterstrokes as We move to the entrenched line that is Calais and Dunkirk. We might have been at Ostend to-day, but our way was made hard a craven King who can now have a villa there. The B.E.F. must ...

THE NAZI VERSION

... been broken in a short time. The attack against the rest of the British army In the loop between Fumes, Bergues and west of Dunkirk, proceeding. The loop only few miles deep, flat, and has been flooded. The enemy Is resisting here stubbornly, the aim being ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

French and Britiah aeroplanes constantly bombed the enemy

... the Belgian King, the Allies were fighting with the same determination. Effect of Surrender German artillery blaated away Dunkirk and Calais, but those ports, with Zeebrugge, remained In Allied hands. The Immediate effect of King Leopold's surrender appeared ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Latest German Claims

... asserted, is only miles wide its widest point. German troops advancing Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk arc stated to have reached the River Yser. Dunkirk. claimed. now within range of the German heavy artillery, and its harbour has been destroyed ...