SENSATIONAL RUMOUR
(Press Assn.-
lithuanica smash MACHINE SHOT DOWN BY GERMAN * GUARD mistaken identity
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
Rec. July 26, 7.30 p.m. Paris, july 26. A Strasbourg newspaper, Les Dernieres Nouvelles, says that it is widely reported that the Lithuanian plane which made a successful crossing of the Atlantic to be wrecked in a fatal crash at the end of the journey, was shot down in mistake for a police plane by a German frontier guard who had been ordered to keep a lookout for an unknown 'plane passing over the Polish frontier. The newspaper adds that on the Polish frontier, the German antiaircraft is well equipped and includes a chain of concrete machine gun emplacements.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 594, 27 July 1933, Page 5
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116SENSATIONAL RUMOUR Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 594, 27 July 1933, Page 5
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