GERMAN SUBTERFUGE
EXPLOSIONS IN HOLLAND
HELPING PROPAGANDA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 27, 11.4 ii a.m.) RUGBY, August 26. According to Dutch circles here the suspicion is. increasing in the Netherla ds that the Germans are causing explosions in Dutch towns to make the population believe that the R.A.F. is carrying out wanton bombing attacks —a statement steadily repeated by German-controlled wireless stations i with much moral indignation on behalf of the defenceless populations, who, incidentally, are under Germany's so- ! called protection.
Instances given by the Germans have been carefully checked against official reports of R.A.F. activities and the1 conclusion has been reached that the damage could not possibly have been done by British aircraft. In some cases the damage mentioned by the Germans was caused in places so far distant from objectives bombed by the R.A.F. that it is impossible the British pilots could have made a mistake. In other cases bombs were said to have struck named places on nights when the R.A.F. made no raids at all on the occupied area.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 50, 27 August 1940, Page 10
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174GERMAN SUBTERFUGE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 50, 27 August 1940, Page 10
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