NAZI OUTRAGE
ATTACK ON DUTCH AIR LINER MACHINE RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. SWEDISH PASSENGER KILLED. A Daventry reports states that a Dutch air liner proceeding from Copenhagen to Amsterdam was attacked by a German military .machine over the North Sea, and a Swedish passenger was killed. The liner had nine passengers aboard and was flying at a height of 2400 feet north-west of Heligoland. (Though riddled with machine-gun bullets the plane reached Amsterdam and landed without injury to the other occupants. WANTON ATTACK SEVENTY MILES NORTH-WEST OF HELIGOLAND. (Received This Dav 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 26. A United Press Amsterdam represen » tative states that a warplane; ostensibly German, attacked a KLM air liner carrying nine passengers, 70 miles north-west of Heligoland, machinegunning the tail and killing a Swedish passengeiv
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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