FRENCH PARTICIPATE
RAID OVER GERMANY
(British- OfflcUl Wireless.) [Received August 3, 12.45 p.m.)
RUGBY, August 2.
The following communique was issued today • from the headquarters of General de Gaulle, commander of the army of all free Frenchmen:
"Our airmen took part in operations carried out last night by the R.A.F. over north-west Germany, their chief objective being an important oil production plant at Kamen. The ground defences put up a heavy barrage, but in spite of this bur men pressed home their attacks with highly-satisfactory results. All our airmen returned safely." . .
This is General de Gaulle's third official communique.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 11
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