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Dunkirk Not Yet Menaced. NARVIK IN ALLIED HANDS Norwegian Operations

... Dunkirk Not Yet Menaced. NARVIK IN ALLIED HANDS Norwegian Operations Pans. Wednesday. Authoritative advices state that while 'he situation on the northern front is clear, ,he battle is extremely violent and is marked by deadly combats in I most sectors ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 608 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK FLOODS STRENGTHEN ALLIED DEFENCES Sea Pours Over Wide Area

... DUNKIRK FLOODS STRENGTHEN ALLIED DEFENCES Sea Pours Over Wide Area Pans. Friday. D , mkirk is hciciinc out magnificently The inundations extending youth-west and north-east of this ,:ntrenchtt camp are now cfnctive. their water having risen owing to the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE HALIFAX DAILY COURIER ' ALLIES HOLD SOLIDLY TO DUNKIRK AREA While Masterly Withdrawal CANRTUII ..

... THE HALIFAX DAILY COURIER ' ALLIES HOLD SOLIDLY TO DUNKIRK AREA While Masterly Withdrawal CANRTUII-SAEIRRORLOASFTT of Other Forces Continues Hi& Curlew Sunk During Norway Operations Many of them had not had a square meal for nearly a week. Bakers worked ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1377 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BITTER BATTLE AROUND DUNKIRK -FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. British Forces Resisting Stubbornly —GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. Paris. ..

... BITTER BATTLE AROUND DUNKIRK -FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. British Forces Resisting Stubbornly —GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. Paris. Friday. This mornings French war communique stated: In the North. operations are continuing with the same bitterness around the foi titled ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMANS CLAIM BIG RAID OFF FLANDERS 19 Ships Alleged Sunk

... warships and troop transports which were :0 bring home the remainder of the beaten B.E.F. in the harbour and on the sea off Dunkirk and Ostend. All branches of the services joined in the attack. which was directed I against more than 60 shins. Three war'ship ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ROLL OF HONOUR

... official to the effect that her son, Driver Leslie Holroyde. RA.S.C. is riEssing. Another member of the Corps who back from Dunkirk, has that_ Haroycle was wounded . . when the B.E r. retieuted to the ooest !More joining the Army he was employed m the textile ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MILLION GERMANS FLUNG AGAINST HILL LINE

... ing took place on the Yser and in the region ot Cassel. On the SOMME and on the rest of the front, there was nothing new Dunkirk the principal French port still in Allied hands, has now been transformed into an entrenched camp and is strqngly held by ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TRIUMPH OF COURAGE AND DISCIPLINE AGAINST ODDS French Storming Way to Safety Thousands of B.E.F. Men Pass ..

... stated to-day: The army of General Prioux, which was hemmed in near Lille. continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. Already a considerable part of it as hacked its way safely across the line of the Flemish hills. w Inch the Germans ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMANS CLAIM LILLE Enemy Resisting Desperately North of Ypres

... of Lille has broken down. The British Army which is concentrated in the area ot Digniude Armentiers. Bailleul an west of Dunkirk. is facing complete uestruction by our cencentric attacks. Lille was reached by German fLices coming from the c.ist and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Friday, May 31, 1940. Gallant Stories

... writing a considerable force of men have been brought back to this country. It Is an operation of extreme difficulty, for Dunkirk seems to be the only port available and it is not equipped for such a task as this. Only small vessels can make use of the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ALLIES CAPTURE NARVIK

... choice only—to retire to the sea and there endeavour to maintain a perimeter of defence under the very noses of enemy bombers. Dunkirk is still held, and massed R.A.F. and French planes are dropping barrages of bombs to afford protection to the troops. The ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ENTENTE CORDIALE

... one man as killed and ancther wounded. The human target 3 dt themsehes the sand and wait. German artillery is now shelling Dunkirk and the vicinity, so the clangers are worse than ever. All the I spoke to to -day referred to the great numbers of German ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 6 | Tags: none