OVER BERLIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 8

OVER BERLIN

R.A.F. RECONNAISSANCE r > MORE ENEMY LOSSES SHOWN IN NORTH SEA ATTACK 'Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 25. ' Reconnaissance Hights were made last, night by Royal Air Force planes over a great part of Germany, according to an Air Ministry com- ; munique. They Hew over the cities ot Hamburg, Berlin and Madgeburg, ! about 75 miles west ot Berlin. Referring to Ihe reconnaissance flights, the evening newspapers find food for reflection in the fact that at ' the very hour when the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, was boasting in Danzig of the Nazi might as exemplified in the overthrow ot Poland, Britain's air power was again being demonstrated to the German people unmistakably but mercifully. It is understood that all the Royal Air Force planes returned safely. Copenhagen reports state that the Hamburg regional radio station closed down at 9 p.m. in the middle of a broadcast of Herr von Ribbentrop's speech. It is thought the stoppage was caused by air raid warnings. Praise for the Royal Air Force is given by a writer in the Petit Parisien. Commenting on a recent air battle over the Western Front, he said that the British planes had to date proved far superior to the German Messerschmitt. The writer added that the German squadrons had not shown very convincing results. Attack on the. Convoy The estimate of the full extent of the enemy losses in the unsuccessful attack on Saturday on a British convoy in the North Sea may have to be revised. The British Admiralty and Air Ministry announced: "We brought down at least three enemy aircraft and a fourth was ! forced to alight in the sea. Yesterday two German airmen whose machines were shot down were picked up in a collapsible boat and three survivors of another German bomber shot down by the British were also landed in England. A Danish ship picked up two German airmen from the North Sea on Saturday after seeing their plane crash. Informed quarters believe that these three planes had taken part in the raid on the convoy. "It seems, therefore, that while no damage was done to the convoy or to the escort and no casualties were suffered by our planes seven German aircraft have been accounted for." HOT RECEPTION NAZI PROPAGANDA UNIT ON WESTERN FRONT PARIS, Oct. 25. A German loudspeaker on a lorry broadcasting propaganda on the Western Front approached a French outpost, repeating that Germany does not want to fight France. A burst of machine-gun fire smashed the apparatus and the crew hurriendly retired. A German communique states that enemy units of about one company had been attacked west of Voelklingen and driven back into French territory. “HERE WE STAY” I GERMAN MINORITY IN DENMARK COPENHAGEN, Oct. 25. Members of the German Party in the Danish Parliament have protested against a suggestion that Germans in North Schleswig should be compulsorily transferred to Germany. The protest was made after the question was raised in Parliament. The leader of the German Party ; commented: "Here we belong and i here we stay.”