Word: nieuport
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They had marched in triumph behind their bagpipes through the streets of Dieppe where 3,350 of their countrymen had fallen. They had cleared (and taken) not only Dieppe but Nieuport, Ostend and Zeebrugge. They had crossed the Somme, overrun Vimy Ridge and Ypres, where their fathers died. And now England, where they had spent four years of frustration, was immeasurably grateful to them because they had rolled up and tucked away the robot coast for good...
...Long live the brave Vs of Lille and of Nieuport...
...main force of R. A. F. flights still fell on Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, Le Havre, Calais and every intervening cove and roadstead...
...started in the Nieuport (airplanes) and Lavalette (metallurgical) plants in the Paris suburbs. Workmen stopped their machines and posted one-third of their number to hold the factories against police. They demanded 48-hour wages for a 40-hour week, a closed shop, no married women workers with employed husbands, no employer reprisals. The directors refused to bargain until the workmen came out. Police sat tight...
Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...