SHOT AS SPIES.
Thirty-One Italian Air Force Members. UNWELCOME DISCLOSURE. WARSAW. August 10. Tlie loading Catholic newspaper in Warsaw reports that Italian officials confiscated all the copies of "Osservatore Romano"' because it disclosed that six engineers, five Air Force technicians and 21) pilots of the Italian Air Force had been arretted in connection with the disclosure of plans for a new Savnia bomber.
The journal stated that samples of a special duralu minium 34 per cent lighter than any known was also found in the possession of a German. Herman Berg, and that all the accused were loiu«* guilty of espionage and ?hot in the back.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 188, 11 August 1939, Page 7
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