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EVACUATION OF CHILDREN

... EVACUATION OF CHILDREN TO DOMINIONS Government Seeking Practicable Scheme The Government are considering the offers received from the Dominions for the reception of children from this country for the period of the war. Mr. Shakespeare (Under-Secretary ...

ONE WHO PRAYED

... Scarborough, June 3. The Supreme Controller Sir. —It the conviction of thousands that the miraculous evacuation our troops from France and Flanders was the response Almighty God to national prayer. The facilities of transport hurriedly made, the smoothness ...

HEROIC DEFENDERS

... of the Allied navies and air forces, the work embarking the last heroic defenders who have covered the evacuation of the northern armies from Flanders Is going steadily forward, in spite of aerial bombing and bombardment by German long-range guns. The troops ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

G.C.B. FOR LORD GORT His Confidence in Victory Lord Gort. Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ..

... the King first-hand account of the Flanders battle during an audience at Buckingham Palace. Lord Gort's return was recorded by the War Office In this announcement:— As result the good progress made in the evacuation of the B.E.F. and the consequent reduction ...

MORE B.E.F. SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN LEEDS

... SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN LEEDS SCENES AT CITY STATION GREETINGS FROM CROWDS Yorkshire Postcard* From Train* in South Evacuated troops from Flanders continued to pour through Leeds night and to-day. Crowds *aw one large party, which arrived at City Station yesterday ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Compensation for Farmers

... told that during the early months of the war few complaints of the kind were received, but since the evacuation of the B.E.F. from France and Flanders, far larger numbers of Service men are moving about the country—many in small parties—and it has been ...

ALLIED COMMANDER-INCHIEF IN ANKARA

... with the chiefs the Allied forces in the Near East.—Press Association PHANTOM BATTERY REACHES LEEDS HEROES OF DUNKIRK EVACUATION Fought Their La*t Action on Sand Dune* Some the last men out of Dunkirk have passed through Leeds—gunners who fought their ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Princess Royal talking to soldiers this afternoon at the Y.M.C.A canteen at Leeds City station

... those having snacks in the canteen the time, and she spoke to each them, asking them about their experiences Flanders and about the evacuation, she stayed talking for some time to two soldiers who came over in a ship under heavy bombardment from the air ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWS OF SERVICEMEN

... Captain the Hon. Lionel J. O. Lambart, who missing, believed killed, while commanding H.M.S. Orlve, which was sunk during the evacuation from Dunkirk. the elder brother and heir-presumptive of Field- Marshal the Earl of Cavan. Chief of the Xmperial General ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Premier and Parliament

... speaking in his best style to-night, broadcast the stirring story of how more than four-fifths of the B.E.F. have been evacuated from Flanders. When Parliament meets on Tuesday the Prime Minister expected to deal with the wider questions arising out of this ...