TELLING GERMANY
THE R.A.F. INFORMATION FLIGHT ALARM CAUSED AT COLOGNE. JOB FOR THE GESTAPO. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 4. The Ministry of Information states that on the night of September 3, the Royal Air Force carried out an extensive reconnaissance over Northern and Western Germany. More than six million copies of a note to the German people were dropped over a wide area. An Amsterdam message says that hundreds of planes dropped manifestoes informing the population of the present situation. When the machines reached Cologne, the population fled to dugouts. The Gestapo endeavoured to seize all the pamphlets.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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101TELLING GERMANY Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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