RAID ON BORKUM
GERMAN CHARGE DENIED.
[by cable —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
LONDON, December 8
The Air Ministry announces: “The suggestion has been made in German newspapers that during the Royal Air Force raid on Borkum on November 29, British aircraft infringed international law by machine-gunning unarmed merchant vessels. This suggestion is entirely false: The attack was, in fact, confined to five seaplanes on the slipways, machine-gun posts on the roof of the hangar, and to coastal defence vessels which liad opened fire on our aircraft.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1939, Page 8
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