LOST GERMAN PLANE
BELIEVED TO BE MILITARY MACHINE VICTIMS IDENTIFIED AS OFFICERS. DEPARTURE FROM BARCELONA INDICATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.in.) NICE, March 5. The German Consul, after an inspection of the wreckage of the Dalus plane, identified the male occupants by their uniforms as German Air Force officers. The debris included gas masks and letters from German airmen serving with General Franco. According to a London message “The Times” Cannes correspondent says the authorities believe the plane was a military machine, camouflaged as commercial, en route from Barcelona to Germany or to Italy. An earlier message reported the finding of the wrecked plane in the lower Alps, with eleven bodies among the debris.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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117LOST GERMAN PLANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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