GERMANY 'RAIDED'
RAIN OF PAMPHLETS BRITISH PLANES’ MISSION MESSAGE TO PEOPLE MISTAKE OVER HOLLAND (Reed. Sept. 5,2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4. The Ministry of Information stated that on Sunday night the Royal Air Force carried out an extensive reconnaissance of northern and western Germany. More than 6,000,000 copies of a note to the German people were dropped over a wide area. An Amsterdam message says that hundreds of planes dropped manifestos informing the population of the present situation. When the machines reached Cologne the population fled to dugouts. The Gestapo (German secret police) endeavoured to seize all the pamphlets. The Amsterdam representative of the United Press says that it has now been disclosed that yesterday aeroplanes (lying over Holland mistook it far Germany and dropped leaflets printed in German explaining the war situation. The pamphlets stated: "We are at war with the present Government, but not the German people. tVc do not believe you ever know what is happening.” A message from Berlin to the United Press says it is renounced that ‘‘propaganda aeroplanes” are reported to have been driven off from German territory when dropping leaflets last night.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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