The Archive · 1940

German Communique

Berne, Jan. 14.

German planes continued their reconnaissance flights over England, France, and the North Sea yesterday, all returning safely to their base with the exception of one machine, the German General Staff announced in an official communique relosed in Berlin this morning. Anti-aircraft units succeeded in bringing down one enemy plane near Saint Ingbert.

During the night of January 12, the communique added, a few enemy planes effected reconnaissance flights over Germany. One British plane attempted to attack the Frisian Islands yesterday towards noon, the communique concluded.—Havas,

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

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