SPIES EVERYWHERE.
BUSY AT THE EVACUATION.
BOMBING PLOT GOES ASTRAY.
SAVED BY CHANCE REMARK
(United Press Association.—Copyright.! (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 31.
A spokesman stated that “fifth columnists” wore very active throughout the evacuation and embarkation of the British Expeditionary Force. Spies were everywhere. If headquarters occupied a house it would be bombed within a few hours. A mail in a British uniform, speaking perfect English, instructed an officer to move his men two miles along the beach. The officer later remarked to a naval observer: “It seems foolish to embark us there.” The naval officer replied: “No, we have no intention of so doing.” An hour later the place to which the men would have heen moved was bombed to blazes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 200, 1 June 1940, Page 5
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