AERIAL MENACE
ANGLO-FRENCH CITIES COUNTLESS BOMBERS BRITISH ELI CHIT DERIDED BELOW NAZI STANDARD (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 13, 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. Messages from Berlin state that the German press derides the flight which was yesterday announced to have been made by 12 squadrons of heavy and medium British bomber:; lasting five hours from their home stations to Bordeaux, France, and back. The Bocrsen Zeitung says: “This little demonstration does not rob us of a minute of our good sleep. Germany possesses countless modern bombers, whose fighting power and range considerably surpass that of the British and French.
“If certain eventualities should come the populations of Birmingham. Manchester, Edinburgh, Marseilles, and Bordeaux would be confronted by them far more than Hamburg, Nuremberg and Leipzig.”
The Berlin correspondent, of The Times .says that the flights angered Germany. “Warmongering from the air" is the description applied by the paper Angriff.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19988, 13 July 1939, Page 5
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152AERIAL MENACE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19988, 13 July 1939, Page 5
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