BERLIN DENIAL
NO STOPPAGE OF TRAINS IN FRANCE RETURN OF REFUGEES SPEEDED UP. ASTONISHMENT EXPRESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) BERLIN, July 29. Expressing astonishment at the reported stoppage of trains from occupied France informed sources state that the boundary has been opened at four unspecified points, to speed up the return of refugees to facilitate harvest operations. SWISS REPORT COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF. GERMANY'S SUPPOSED REASONS. BASLE, July 29. There are both civil and military reasons for the Germans’ action in cutting off all communications between occupied and unoccupied France. Germany needs all the available trains to prepare for an invasion of Britain, and she fears espionage and sabotage by refugees from unoccupied France. Also, she needs all the food supplies in the occupied territory for her troops. The civil reason is that the Germans are not prepared to handle the huge influx of refugees.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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149BERLIN DENIAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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