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THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK

... THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK At short notice the British had cover their 30-mile flank to the sea. and doing lost contact with two of the three French corps. Now it seemed impossible that any large number Allied troops could reach the coast. With vivid phrases ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Defenders Of Dunkirk

... Defenders Of Dunkirk. The last defenders of Dunkirk the heroic rearguard—are stated to have been embarked during the night and the opening hours of the morning. Before they left the port of Dunkirk is said to have been left useless. Mr. Churchill, in ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Perpetual Combat

... General Prioux’s French troops are falling back on Dunkirk the Germans are making every attempt to cut off and capture them. “Corunna Line.’’ To safeguard the western flank and keep the way to Dunkirk open to their French comrades in arms, British troops ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

JUNE 1

... JUNE 1. Apart from the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, which proceeds at a fast rate, there is nothing else important in the news from the war zone. Foreigners arc meanwhile leaving Italy and Italians from Turkey. Roumania. and Yugo-Slavia are being ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ULSTER MAILBOAT UNDER FIRE

... learned in Belfast on Tuesday that one of the L M S steamers on the Larne-Stranraer service suffered during the evacuation of Dunkirk. A shell passed through the engine-room, causing death and injury to number of the crew. ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 55 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

R.A.F. BEAT NAZI AIR FORCE

... R.A.F. BEAT NAZI AIR FORCE (By arrangement with “Daily Telegraph.”) The full dramatic story of the Dunkirk EVACUATION, “A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE” FOLLOWING COLOSSAL MILITARY DEFEAT” WAS RELATED BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO A TENSELY ATTENTIVE HOUSE OF COMMONS ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JUNE 2

... embarked. Owing to the width of the beaches, however, the losses are not so heavy might otherwise be. Fighting around the Dunkirk defences, meanwhile, proceeds as fiercely as ever. The Germans suffer heavily. Their infantry attack across the flooded area ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. HENRY HAVERON

... leave three weeks ago. Although he had the option sigmngoft when the ship was brought into service to assist the evacuation Dunkirk, he refused to leave and manfully stuck at his job during the hazards that followed, until he received his fatal wound. His ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 921 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AVERAGES

... Captain and Mrs T. S. Adamson, Rathmavle. Whitehead, in a letter home gave graphic account of the evacuation of the troops from Dunkirk. Sergeant Austin Blackburn, whose uncle resides in Whitehead, has also arrived with his party. He is a son of the late Mr ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FRANK STATEMENT

... enabled the Gravelines waterline to be flooded and held by the French. “Thus it was,” said Mr. Churchill, that the port of Dunkirk was kept open. . . . The only choice left for the Northern Armies now seemed, indeed, forlorn. Their sole line of retreat ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1625 | Page: 5 | Tags: none