DUTCH FIRE ENGINES
REQUISITIONED BV NAZIS
TO FIGHT FIRES IN RUHR STARTED BY R.A.F. SCHIPOL AIRPORT BOMBED OUT OF EXISTENCE. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 5. Dutch circles in London have released a statement from a neutral returned from a visit to Germany and Holland in which he says that a majority of Holland’s fire engines have been requisitioned for service in the Ruhr, to fight fires resulting from R.A.F. raids. The R.A.F. have bombed the Schipol Airport out of existence and the Germans have moved the engines, overhaul shop and other plant into the heart of Amsterdam, thus using Dutch citizens as a shield.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 6
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110DUTCH FIRE ENGINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 6
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