The Archive · 1938

Awaiting Examiners' Report of Bombing

Paris, June 10, EDOUARD Daladier, the Premier, was cheered in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday when he announced that he had ordered anti ireraft batteries to fire on foreign aircraft crossing the Franco-Spanish frontier, instead of merely giving warning shots, Ju reply {0 an allegation ade by a Socialist Deputy that the planes, which had recently raided a French frontier village, were German, M. Daladier said that at present he had no authority for saying of what ori the planes were.

Fragments of the bombs which had been dropped were now being examined, however, the Premier declared, and the consequences of the examiners' report "might well be serious."

'The bombing of the French vile Jags, on the French Pyrenees fron tier, to which M, Daladier referred, was carried out last Sunday morning unidentified aircraft, believed to have come from Spain.' The following day. nine foreign aeroplanes again flew over French territory, but when French batteries went into, acion against' them they returned to Spanish territory.

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