UNRESTRICTED BOMBING.
REPLY TO NAZI CHARGES.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 25. This afternoon the Air Ministry made the follqwing announcement “A German High Command communique alleges that on Tuesday night Britain opened unrestricted air warfare by attacking undefended places with no military objectives. This allegation is unfounded. The attack on the island of Sylt was directed against the Westerland aerodrome, an important military objective and one of the most heavily defended places in Germany. No attack was made on the town of Hcide.” . . The German report stated:— British bombers dropped several bombs on a town in Schleswig-Holstein wheio there are no military objectives, thus opening the a.ir war against undefended places.” The British Air Ministry recalls the German bombing of fin} Orkneys on March 17, causing civilian casualties.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 10
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129UNRESTRICTED BOMBING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 10
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