GERMAN THREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 5

GERMAN THREAT

ADDRESSED TO BELGIUM & HOLLAND WARNING AGAINST ATTACKS ON INTRUDING PLANES. RIGHT TO FLY OVER TERRITORY CLAIMED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) PARIS, November 20. According to the “Excelsior” Germany has sent notes to Belgium and Holland, warning them not to attack German planes flying over their territory, otherwise Germany will take immediate measures of counter-aggres-sion. The notes are reported to assert that Belgium and Holland have not opposed with force the Allied control of their shipping, for which reason Germany claims the right to fly over their territory. GERMAN STORY PILOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. ENCOUNTER WITH DUTCH PLANE. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. It is semi-officially stated in Berlin, according to a message from that city, that one German pilot was seriously injured in an encounter with a Dutch plane on Sunday. It is denied that the German machine was inside Dutch territorial waters. CRASH IN HOLLAND GERMAN MILITARY PILOT KILLED FIRED ON BY DUTCH GUNS. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) THE HAGUE. November 20. A German military plane crashed in Dutch territory while attempting a forced landing. The pilot was killed. It is officially stated that Dutch antiaircraft guns fired on the plane before it crashed. The German plane, which was broken into three parts, was partly buried beside the River Roer, with the body of the eighteen-year-old pilot leaning out of the cockpit. THREAT DENIED (Received This Day. 10.15 a.m.) THE HAGUE, November 20. Authoritative circles emphatically discount the “Excelsior’s” report of a German threat.