WAR NEWS

... The evacuation from Flanders goes on. The Allied forces are holding a covering line some distance from the coast. This line has become known as the Corunna Line, in memory of the famous retreat from Spain by Sir John Moore in 1809. The evacuation has ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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GERMAN LOSSES TOTAL 500,000 SINCE AMY 10

... CHANNEL FOG HAMPERS NAZIS Weather conditions over the Channel are hampering the operations of German aircraft against the evacuation of the 8.E.F., according to the Official German News Agency in its daily commentary on the war. Conditions unfavourable ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1399 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

L. N. PEAKE

... L. N. PEAKE Graphic stories of the fighting in Flanders and of the evacuation of Allied forces were .told by Potteries soldier: , who have arrived home. Their confidence and morale remain unimpaired after their grim ordeal, and they are keen to renew ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
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AT TOUR SERVICE NOTTINGHAM BUILDING SOCIFT Y

... the union of Malta to Italy.— British United Press. “No More Chivalry in Reich,” Says Swiss Paper 'The Allied troops in Flanders are showing themselves worthy their fathers, writes the Fribourg (Swiss) newspaper Überte. At the same time it criticises ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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WANT “ANOTHER PACKET” AT NAZIS

... in Preston, has received intimation that his only son. Lieut. K C Burrow, medical officer with one the regiments evacuated from Flanders. is safe this country. Lieut. Burrow is scholar of Balliol. Oxford, and gained his blue ' for rugger in 1932. He ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE GALLANT REARGUARD

... should saved. _ « they make their desperate attempt escape they can be assured that every possible gun the ships covering the evacuation, and possible -plsne that can be spared will be hammering the Germans bring about this final and complete triumph. Steamers ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Withdrawal Goes On

... perspective. Mr. Churchill once wrote of the skilful evacuation of the Dardanelles, This consummation was acclaimed by the shallow and the uninstructed as if it had been a victory. The retreat from Flanders has been a superb, heroic piece of work, and the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOURTH ROUND

... Argentina masses of printed propaganda prepared by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. Evacuation Defied Air Blitzkrieg IT'ROM a military point of view the evacuation from Flanders —most difficult of all tasks—.has been carried out with great success against the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
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SHIP AFTER SHIP BRINGS HOME THE BOYS OF THE B.E.F

... last war. According to some estimates, only a division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders. Not Started on Hitler Yet Trains carrying Tommies back from Flanders were running so smoothly to-day that they did not stop at some of the stations in the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ON SOMME CFATEFUL DAYS FOR ITALY : *! Hitler ' s Reported Meeting With Envoy FASCIST PRESS CAMPAIGN CONTRABAND ..

... Reports from American observers in Europe that Germany has lost 40 per cent , of her mechanical equipment in the battle of Flanders are being linked with reports in Washington that Berlin is bringing heavy pressure to bear on Rome for Italy to enter the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1274 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ICE SKATING

... an army can be confronted. But there is, in fact, no parallel for the conditions w hich prevail to-day in Flanders. Our Armies are being evacuated under the full view of the enemy and under constant attack from land and from the air. Moreover, the coast ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 564 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

French Rearguard Men Reaching Dunkirk

... still providing, the necessary cover for the withdrawal, while British and French ships are collaborating in the task of evacuating Allied troops Britain. Not for the first time in history this is a case where the little ships are doing great deeds. Paris ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 899 | Page: 1 | Tags: none