"FIFTH COLUMN" AGAIN
PLANES INTERCEPTED
AMERICAN SUPPLIES TO
BRITAIN
(Received November 18, 2.10 p.m.)
NEW YORK, November 17
An American pilot who was engaged in "ferrying" planes to Britain stated that whenever a fleet of United States or Canadian warplanes is flown across the Atlantic it is met, with uncanny accuracy of timing, by German squadrons as it nears Ireland.
The-'Germans' ability to intercept planes, he said, was directly traceable to the highly-organised "fifth column," because the transatlantic flights were arranged in the greatest secrecy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 8
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