Allies’ Invincible Pamphlets Tell Germans

Northern Advocate, 6 September 1939, Page 7

Allies’ Invincible Pamphlets Tell Germans

(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 5. The pamphlets dropped from the British aeroplanes on the night of Sunday-Monday bore the title: “A Warning—Great Britain fo the German People.” It declared the German Government had imposed an unnecessary war upon Britain, which wanted to live in peace with the German people. The Nazi censorship withheld , the truth from Germans. They were living on the verge of bankruptcy. The pamphlet added that Britain and her Allies were invincible, but would be prepared to make peace with any sincerely peaceful German Government. Another Flight. Last night further extensive reconnaissahee was carried out by the Royal Air Force over Germany, says a radio announcement, and more than 2,000,000 copies of a pamphlet to the German people were dropped. The aircraft were not engaged, by enemy aircraft, and all returned safely to their bases. “Not Our Fight.” The Independent Labour Party announced that it received a declaration from the Independent Socialists of Germany that the masses of the German people: . “Don’t want this war; this war is

not our war. “This fight is not our fight, and we ask you in the midst of death and destruction not to forget the ideals for which we died and were tortured.’’

“We protested in oiir illegal pamphlets spread even among fortification workers against the occupation of Austria the .annexation of Czechoslovakia and against Hitler’s policy of aggression.”