The Archive · 1939

German Pilot's Statement

With RAR, Nov. 4.

'A German officer and three men were taken prisoner yesterday when a British plane downed one of three Reich planes in the British sector. One of the Nazi tiers. who spoke English told the young British Flight Lieutenant who downed him, "T lost my way returning from a flight over the North Sea and crossed the French coast at Calais.

The German pilot had lowered his plane's under-carriage but the British machine mowed him down "in order to make sure that nobody else got the, bag."

TT has been learned that the French President, M, Albert Lebrun, and the Premier, -M. Edouard Daladier, will probably soon officially visit the Brl~ fish Expeditionary" Forees in this: sector. It is said that the French Premier is anxious 10 see the British farls and dugouts—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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