POLES SHOOT DOWN GERMAN PLANE
Allegedly Flew Over
Fortifications
CREW RESCUED BY A NAZI STEAMER
By 'Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright (Received June 28, 9 p.m.) WARSAW, June 28.
After firing a warning shot, Polish coastal artillery shot clown a German military aeroplane allegedly flying over fortifications opposite the port of Gdynia. The plane fell into the sea and sent out an SOS message. A passing German merchant ship picked up the occupants. The Air Ministry in Berlin refused to give details of the incident.
GERMAN TROOPS FLOW INTO FREE CITY
Officers And Men Dressed As Civilians
LONDON, June 27.
The Warsaw correspondent of the Exchanges Telegraph Company states that 1400 armed German officers • apd men, dressed as civilians, are reported to have arrived in Danzig in lorries from East Prussia. There are already 2000 fully-armed Germans in various barracks. Intensive frontier traffic is noted at Lissau, while tailors in Danzig have been ordered to make 4000 uniforms in six weeks.
The Polish national defence fund amounts to £16,000,000.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 232, 29 June 1939, Page 9
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