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FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK?

... FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK? Street fighting was reported, to-day, in the Channel port of Dunkirk, according to informed Nazi sources in Berlin, who said that the Belgian capitulation had permitted a very strong break-through on the entire line. The French, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEAVLIY BOMBED

... DUNKIRK HEAVLIY BOMBED Authoritative advices received in t'ans state that while the situation on tne .Northern front is not clear, the battle is extremely violent and is marked by deadly combats in most sectors between Allied and enemy units, which are ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 196 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Supplies Reaching Dunkirk

... Supplies Reaching Dunkirk OSTEND Midddkerke unl, '> Hxmu Armei Laventt ° Warn La '^Lillers Bethune civeridy Bruay logs Houdain Lens Dunkirk is being fortified by French and British naval engineers, the Admiral commanding the operations reported to-night ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 142 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY DUNKIRK FIGHT

... ONE PENNY DUNKIRK FIGHT Behind the message, “ Gentlemen, I thank you,” sent by General Georges, Chief of Staff to General Weygand, to an R.A.F. squadron, is the story of one of the bravest feats of the war. All the bridges over the Meuse near Maastricht ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRENCH TANK ATTACK A WAY FORCED TO DUNKIRK

... ATTACK A WAY FORCED TO DUNKIRK Paris, Thursday.—The vanguard of General Prioux's army, consisting of two divisions, has blasted its way out of the German trap in Flanders means of a furious tank battle, and has reached Dunkirk, a French military’ authority ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 88 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WILSON LINE, HULL REGULAR SERVICE OF STEAMERS P.M HULL, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE ..

... REGULAR SERVICE OF STEAMERS P.M HULL, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE. ASERINEEN, SWANSEA. ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, to and NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, POLAND, BALTIC and PORTS; EGYPT, PALESTINE, INDIA, UNITED STATES and CANADA. MARINE INSURANCE ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 135 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TROOPS SOLIDLY HOLD CORRIDOR TO SEA

... French spokesman, describing the situation at Dunkirk, said, “Naval A.A. guns and squadrons of R.A.F. fighters banned the air over the port to German planes.” Allied troops are still holding out solidly in Dunkirk and west of the Yser Canal. They are holding ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1703 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Tter rearguard ACTIONS

... Tter rearguard ACTIONS NAVAL FORCES HOLD DUNKIRK PARTLY IN NAZI HANDS: street fighting in lille fi lria cen t courage and in complete order, the B.E.F. is withdrawal from the isolated Northern zone. Strong cti° ns are covering the operation. Last night’s ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 360 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TALES—AND TRUTH

... Nazis in heavy fighting. , [Note. —Cassel is about 18 miles south and slightly east of Dunkirk and Kemmel about 12 miles further east by south 1 The port ot Dunkirk, stronody entrenched by French and British, was holding he said, basing his statement on ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 980 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMAN VERSION OF BATTLE

... twenty-five miles wide at its widest point.” German troops advancing in Northern Flanders towards Dunkirk are stated to have reached the River Yser. “ Dunkirk,” it was claimed, “is now within the range of the German heavy artillery and its harbour has been ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 1 | Tags: none