SWISS FRONTIER
17 BOMBS DROPPED
GENERAL MOBILISATION
ORDERED
(Received May 11, 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, May 10,
A message from Berne (Switzerland) states: "The army announces that points on the" Swiss frontier have been bombed.
"A German bomber dropped 17 bombs, while 20 -German and a number of French planes engaged in a battle near Delemont. Swiss anti-air-craft guns came into action and drove off a, German bomber from a big aerodrome near Zurich.
"The,, Government general mobilisation."
has ordered
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 13
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79SWISS FRONTIER Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 13
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