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PLANE CRASH IN ALPS

DISGUISED MACHINE

GERMAN AIR OFFICERS

(Reed. March 7, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March G.

A report from Nice says that the German Consul, after an inspection of the wreckage of the Dalits plane whien. with 11 bodies, was discovered on Saturday by a skier near Rubicon, in the 'Lower Alps, identified the remains of the male occupants by their uniforms as officers of the German Air Force.

The debris included gas-masks and letters from German airmen serving with General Franco in Spain.

The Cannes correspondent of The Times says that the authorities believe that the plane was a military machine camouflaged as a commercial air liner, and that it was en route from Barcelona to Germany or Italy.

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Bibliographic details

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 5

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PLANE CRASH IN ALPS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 5

PLANE CRASH IN ALPS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 5