PROTESTS BY HOLLAND
AGAINST AIR VIOLATIONS. PRESENCE OF BRITISH PLANE DENTED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. January 23. An official announcement at The Hague states that anti-aircraft gunners fired on a British plane over Borkum. South Holland. The Government is protesting to Britain. The British Air Ministry announces that after a full inquiry the aircraft could not have been British. The Netherlands Government also protested to Berlin against a German plane flying over Holland on January 20. It is stated officially that an unidentified plane which flew over Holland today was a German . machine. Holland is making a second protest to Berlin.
FULL JNQUIRY BRITISH AIR MINISTRY STATEMENT. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY. January 23. The Air Ministry announces: "It was officially stated on Monday evening in Holland that an aircraft of the Royal Air Force flew over South Holland during the afternoon and was fired on. Full inquiries have been made which have established the fact that the aircraft in question could not have been British."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 6
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