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A MIGHTY BRITISH BLOW TO COME By EVENING MAIL MILITARY EXPERT

... study a map of better armed forces induced his the Channel. There seems to be capitulation. The weight of this an idea that Dunkirk, Calais and onslaught, now directed against Boulogne are the only Channel the surprised flank and rear of the ports. Please ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 269 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BID TO CUT ARMIES IN TWO

... EVERTHELESS, this Army is resisting and trying to II make up for its inferiority in numbers by narrowing its front. The port of Dunkirk is an entrenched camp firmly held and supported by the heavy guns of the Fleet. The German attacks, both in the south-west ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 61 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WIPED OUT

... The operations of the Air Force on May 30 were severely handicapped by weather conditions. In spite of this the harbour of Dunkirk was again attacked. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 78 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BOMBS ON GERMANY

... objectives at Bremen and Hamburg bombed and fuel depots set on fire. Up to last night French units still held out in Calais. Dunkirk been heavily bombed, but the town is not directly threatened. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 83 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN BERLIN IS WIPING US OUT!

... been broken in a short time. The attack against the • of the British Army in the loop between Furnes. Bergues and west of Dunkirk is proceeding. The loop is only a few miles deep. is flat, and has been flooded. The enemy is resisting here stubbornly ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

At many points in the low-lying plain, crossed by a network of canals, water is slowly rising, following the ..

... are receiving the greatest possible assistance both from the combined British and French forces and from naval units. At Dunkirk Vice-Admiral Abrial is keeping open the lines of communication, while Allied aircraft, working in close collaboration, are ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Belgians furious at betrayal: BERLIN SEALS DOOM OF ALLIED ARMIES

... broken down. 'The British Army, which is concentrated in the area of Dismude. Armentieres, Bailleul. and Bergues. west of Dunkirk. is facing complete destruction by our concentric attacks. In a swift pust through Flanders. German forcer marched through ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Allied troo pew Coru ps nna thoritatively in London British French till goes Figures peril4si4, but they ..

... themselves imperishably among those who Will yet save by their suffering everything which makes civilised life of value. lAt Dunkirk, the combined 'Allied for are giving effective IP:Section to the embarkatton of wounded and of troops which are 1 , 4 t seeded ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1116 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TYLER'S ADVENTURES No. 148 BRITISH SEAMEN BLEW UP NEW DUTCH WARSHIP

... 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: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 266 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

the Allied troops. consiking particularly of British. On the Yser the Germans have obtained no success. On ..

... under Lord Gort, are bearing the brunt of the defence of these two fronts. Garman attacks southwestward from Bruges. aimed at Dunkirk, have encountered fierce resistance by the British on the Year. It Is to be noted in this respect that the British are defending ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 319 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 530 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAZIS HURL 1,000,000 MEN INTO DRIVE FOR HILLS

... possession of the famous Line of the Hills, which extends between Cassel and Ypres and divides the region of Lille from that of Dunkirk. The Germans have flung 40 divisions, more than 1,000,000 men, and almost the whole of their armoured divisions against an ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 720 | Page: 1 | Tags: none