AMERICAN RIGHTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 7

AMERICAN RIGHTS

POSSIBLE CCHALLENGE POLICY OF BRITAIN (Reed. Dec. 8, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says it is authoritatively reported that the United States note to Britain setting out the position regarding the seizure of German exports, will broadly reserve American . rights and may challenge the validity of the British action, but it will not' join issue to the exteht of impairing British-American political relations. The correspondent adds that the reservation will provide a basis for claims on behalf of United States nationals whose interests are damaged as a result of the seizures. The Air Ministry announces that the Royal Air Force successfully carried out a flight over North Germany last evening. The Ministry ' denied a German statement that the British machines flew home over Danish territory. According to a Berlin message ,a war communique mentions an air battle west of Texet in which British and German machines collided and fell into the sea, and also German reconnaissance flights over England, Scotland, and the Shetland Islands. During the evening, it was stated, British aeroplanes flew five times towards Schleswig Holstein. Anti-aircraft fire compelled the enemy to turn northwards in an attempt to escape across Denmark. No bombs were dropped.