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AT ITS LOWEST FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS

... evict the strikers. The dockers (200 of 1,500 Dunkirk port men striking for more pay) have built their fortress within a steel-walled compound erected by the Germans to protect waterlront approaches to Dunkirk during the occupation of France (says Reuter) ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1948
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PAYMENT OF JURORS

... to visit Londonderry and Portrush during their summer cruise. Agincourt, Corunna, Dunkirk and Jutland will all arrive at Londonderry from Scapa Flow on May 22, and Dunkirk will stay until June 3, Agincourt and Corunna until June Ik. and Jutland until June ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SPEECH WAS TERRIFIC^

... BRITAIN and France have initiated talks with tlte three Benelux customs union nations for conclusion f pacts similar Hie Dunkirk Anglo - French .alliance. Hie French Government announced yesterday. A French Foicmn spokesman, disclosing lhat the subject ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1948
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Slept through landing

... Slept through landing When Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Dunkirk early this morning they did not know that they were on foreign soil. They were asleep in their special car as it was hauled ashore from the nighttrain ferry from ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH FISHERMEN DROWN

... FRENCH FISHERMEN DROWN Ship founders in Channel DUNKIRK, Friday—Six French fishermen were drowned, to-day when their boat foundered in the rough Channel near Dunkirk. For about five hours they clung to the mast of the ship, while rescue boats tried to ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BELFAST WIDOW'S CASE

... but a State widow's pension although her husband. Sapper Hopkins, had died within a month of privations suffered during the Dunkirk evacuation. Because death was not considered due to military service, Mrs. Hopkins' claim for a war pension vn turned down ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1948
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ECONOMIC CRISIS

... tomorrow will disclose a political and economic situation that will confront the nation with an even greater crisis than Dunkirk. Unless the same measures are taken now as wore taken then in the realm home and foreign policy, this country cannot successfully ...

Published: Monday 08 March 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CREW OF

... CREW OF TROOPS AGAIN TAKE DUNKIRK. STRIKERS RETREAT. ;TEEL FORTRESS FALLS. Saturday Troops t he port of Dunkirk to-day . A.OOO striking dockers aban-eioos;tions they had barricaded behind four days ago. loads of French soldiers sate police rolled into ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1948
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WESTERN UNION

... Considerable reserve in Benelux countries The Anglo - French offer of treaties of alliance on the pattern of the Anglo-French Dunkirk alliance has met with considerable reserve in Belgium, Holland, and Luxemburg, according to reports from Paris last night ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BATTERY'S LOST SILVER

... collection in order that he might deposit it for safekeeping until the unit's return home. This he did. The officer was Uled at Dunkirk. and when the regimental papers were burnt to save them from the enemy the last remaining evidence of the closely guarded ...

Published: Thursday 05 August 1948
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Finland hears coming whispers

... draft submitted by the Benelux eounlries. !t was unrlerslorid that the Benelu draft went gfar beyond the principles of the Dunkirk treaty between Britain and France. Confidence that Western Fnion of European nations will save tho moral and material values ...

Published: Friday 05 March 1948
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS

... TO PARIS Security arrangements PARIS, Wednesday. A police inspector will be stationed every 1,005 yards of the 319 miles Dunkirk to Paris railway, on Friday, to guard the train carrying Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to the French capital ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 5 | Tags: none