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... threatened. One worker described the conditions as like Flanders during the War. Rain which set In last night helped to till the cuttings. Many more people prepared to leave their homes, and farmers evacuated their cattle. The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NEWS ITEMS

... at Antwerp. D'Annunzio has ordered hie legionaries to evacuate Port Baron, says a Central been meese4te from Rome. It is announced, say the E Paris, that the Last Brtisi leave France and Flanders tember. Exchange rates yesterday were: Paris 47.45--4710; ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 123 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE OBSERVER, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940

... THE OBSERVER, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940 HULLO MIDDLETON ! [By BROADCASTER] Good News The ghastly yet glorious evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders must have stirred every parish in the British Isles, for scarcely a single parish can exist which had not ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WEYGAND MADE FAILURE CERTAIN -B.E.F. HISTORIAN

... the North would be forced to fall back and attempt evacuation. He initiated the organisation of the Dunkirk bridgehead tied the planning of partial evacuation before ever the policy of general evacuation was accepted by his own Government or by the French ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 605 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAT FIRE IN MELBOURNE

... another, and in three houra:had destroyed the whole block, bounded by Elizabeth street, Fianders street, Swavston street, aud Flanders lane, witb the exception of the Store, the Port Phillip Hote!. end the Swansten street face of the block Many of the largest ...

Published: Monday 22 November 1897
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Mail
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 552 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT

... DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT THE greatest sea-borne evacuation of an army in historythatt of Dunkirk in 1915—resulted in the rescue of more than seven times as many men u it had been facially aimed at saving. The report of the late Admiral ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 863 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SENATE TAKEN BY SURPRISE

... leadership. Previously, Republican leaders had sought to defeat outright the reprimand for Mr. McCarthy proposed by Senator Flanders, a Republican. While Senator Knowland was making his proposal. Americans were considering the findings of a newspaper survey ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 860 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SENATE TAKEN BY SURPRISE

... leadership. Previously, Republican leaders had sought to defeat outright the reprimand for Mr. McCarthy proposed by Senator Flanders, a 13,epublican. While Senator Knowland was making his proposal, Americans were considering the findings of a newspaper survey ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 823 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE FACADE of Birmingham's famous Theatre Royal. Future of Court of Chivalry Lord Goddard's Judgment The future ..

... when she sank. Mother of Airman Flies to Irak Mrs. Flanders, of Havering. near Romford. left LOndon by air-yesterday for R.A.F. Station Habbaniya. in Irak. where her son Cpl. Arthur' Stanley Flanders, is in hospital suffering from poliomyelitis. At the ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2791 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Heat kills ace British cyclist

... tans as Mr. Tom. he first came to the forefront of top class racing in 1961 when tie won the Belgian classic, the Tour of Flanders. MICHAEL PRICE—Yalta 17 Three gaoled for death of farmer Three men were found guilty at Hertford Assizes last night of the ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1967
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 770 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

VARIATIONS FROM MIDLAND

... WAR By J. M. Cowper THE temper Jof the country forty years ago was one of patriotic fervour scarcely equalled after the evacuation in 1940 of the B.E.F. from the beaches of Dunkirk. The defeat of the Allied armies at the Battle of Le Cateau and the subsequent ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 847 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SECOND YEAR VERY DIFFERENT

... through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King LEOPOLD and the German break through on the other flank at Sedan. it fought ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 3 | Tags: none