The Archive · 1938

Germany Making Protest

Alleged Fresh Violations by Czech Planes In Flying Over German Territory

Berlin, May 25.

ERR Joachim von ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, has ordered a sharp protest to be made against the alleged fresh violations on the German frontier by Czechoslovakian aeroplanes.

It was stated that, in addition to the three frontier violations already reported to have been carried out by Czechoslovakian aeroplanes in the past 24 hours, a fourth case had just come to light.

'A Czech plane was said to have flown yesterday over tha German frontier, west of Eger, at Schiending, which was about two miles from the frontier.

The machine was a biplane armed with a machine-gun.

It contained two pilots Later, the plane was seen flying very low over the village of n, about four miles from the frontier. The. occupants, it was alleged, were evidently engaged in observation of the country, and there could be "no question of the pilot having lost his way as the frontier line could easily be picked up here."

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