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GERMAN PLANES RUN INTO HITLER PACKET OF TROUBLE: RAF. CLASH WITH HEINKELS
Paris, To-day.
THREE GERMAN PLANES which came over the
front lines yesterday met with a rude reception,|| two being sho? down, according to semi-official
sources.
The planes appeared out of a clear sky and were greeted with hot fire from British anti-aircraft guns.
BELGIUM TAKES STEPS FOR DEFENCE
Another neutral country has taken precautions against
They turned for home and when over our front lines were engaged by five British fighters.
One Nazi machine was shot down from the air by machine-guri fire, a second was brought down by anti- aircraft fire and the third got away trailing a thick cloud of smoke.
The smoke may have been intend- ed as a screen or the plane may have been badly hit.
The enemy bombers were Heinkel machines, which are used for long- range reconnaissance.
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TURKEY AND
RUSSIA MAY TALK AGAIN
London, To-day.
A message from Istanbul sug- gests that Turkey and Russla may resume their interrupted talks shortly, and that Rumania will Join In the discussions.
The talks will possibly begin when the Rumanian Ambassador to Turkey returns to Istanbul from Bucharest, where he has been conferring with King Carol. -Reuter:
The fate of the crewe is not known VISITORS
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invasion, obviously directed CHEAP
against the possibility of an
attempt by Germany to at- SNEER AND
tack the Allies through their country.
Reuter reports from -Brussels-that in fresh steps taken by Belgium, evacuation of areas close to the fron- tier is envisaged.
SOME FACTS
London, To-day. The Nazi - radio broadcasts Preparations to clear the area are said to have been completed, although are trying to falsify Britain's the public has been informed that the loyalty to her allies with the measures are purely precautionary.
This follows similar steps in Hol-cheap sneer that "Britain is land, where five hundred towns and ready to fight to the last villages are · affected, including the
Frenchman." whole of the province of Utrecht, ex- cept the city of Utrecht.
It is reported that a small part of the province..of Utrecht has already been flooded.
Switzerland has also taken pre- cautionary.measures.
GERMANS FAIL IN S. AFRICAN CASE
Pretoria, To-GRY
When they assert that Britain's policy in the last war was the same, they are falsifying history.
From 1914 to 1918, 1,393,388 French- men lost their lives and 1,490,000 defending their were wounded in
soil from the German invasion.
The British Empire lost 1,089,919 killed and 2,400,988 wounded.
it--will be seen that while the Empira lost alightly fewer killed, our wounded were nearly a mil- llón moré.
It is thus clear that the Nazi efforts to drive a wedge between Britain and France are futile.
Germans might well, note that their own casualties in dead and round; In the Supreme Court sted in the last war were over 6,000,000 Prestoria gesterday two Ger- and they might consider this tragic total Before allowing themselves to mans who are now in concen-ww dragged by their leaders into an- tration camps applied for de- ömer slaughter. clarations that the South African Defence Act is ille
GIVEN RARE PRIVILEGE
London, To-day.
GROWING WORRIED
London, To-day.
The obvious urgency with which the German Ambassa- dors in Moscow and Rome have been summoned to Ber- lin, indicates the growing concern felt by the Fuehrer at Russian and Italian po- licy.
The "Daily Telegraph" comment- ing on developments, says that Italy's unrelenting hostility to Bolshevism is being regarded so seriously that, it is reported, Field Marshal Goering may be sent to Rome personally to try and bring about a change of at- titude.
His task, it is suggested, wisi, be to try and 'persuade Mussolini to realise the "wisdom" of the new Russo-German Paot.
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He will carry a personal from Herr. Hitler to Il Duce.
FURTHER DISMAY The Finnish. Issue has also caused further dismay in Chermany.
The tide, of public opinion. con- tinues to rise against Hibbentrop's polley towards the Soviet, which, It is now more than ever clear, is work- favour of ing out exclusively in Russia.
A further increase in the Soviet's hold on Northern Europe will be re- Special privileges have been grant-garded with the utmost disfavour ed to any Dominions Ministers who by the German officer class which may be in London during the war in regarded any bargain with --Com- allocating to them four places in the munism as undesirable unless it pro- Members' own gallery in the House vided much-needed military support.
of Commons.
These were occupied for the first
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time yesterday when the Dominions Prime Minister's weekly review. and India representatives heard the Reuter.
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