AN ENEMY LIE
ALLEGED TRIAL OF BRITISH PILOTS FOR MAKING FALSE REPORTS. A BASELESS FABRICATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) RUGBY, March 31. It is officially stated by the Air Ministry that there is no truth whatever in reports which continue to be broadcast from Germany that British pilots have been court inartialled for having made false reports in regard to operatic ns against the enemy. The names of two officers have been mentioned in connection with these reports. These officers are employed solely on ground duties and at no time since the oubreak of war has either of them taken part in active operations against the enemy. Official reports of air operations are issued only bj' the Air Ministry or from the headquarters of the Royal Air Force, and no claim is included in any such report until the evidence has been fully examined and the claim authenticated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 6
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