The Archive · 1940

R.A.F. Make Flights Over Germany

French Say "Nothing to Report" for West Front Paris, Feb. 13.

There was nothing to report from the front last night, this morning's General Staff communique announced.

The British air force took the initiative yesterday and effected se eral reconnaissance flights deep li German territory, a semi-official report stated.

While flying over north. st Germany, the British machines were attacked by a German squadron but managed to return safely to their bases. One German scouting plane flew over French territory during the day.—Havas.

"Herr Fritz von Thyssen, who fled from Germany last November, has lost his German citizenship. Dr. Wilhelm Trick, the German Home Minister, declared yesterday that Herr von Thyssen and his wife lose their nationality as from February 4.

Thyssen's entire fortune, amounting to about Reichsmarks 200,000,000, has been confiscated.

Foreign observers in Berlin d: clare that Thyssen's flight to Switze land was kept secret in Germany owing to the unfavourable impression the news would have caused, for Thyssen was one of the powerful supporters of the Nazi Party and generously contributed to its funds until Spring, 1939. He was a Deputy of the Reichstag of Greater Germany. He left the Reich in Novem-number of tanks, some of which Lord Tweedsmuir to weighed 70 tons, in a desperate effort to break through the Man-Be Cremated nerheim Line and capture Viipuri, key city in the Isthmus. Pressure

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was greatest in the Summa sector.

Ottawa, Feb. 13. All Soviet planes in Finland are now concentrated in the Karelian front.

It is understood that the body of The impression is growing that Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General Marshal Klim Voroshiloff, the War of Canada, who died yesterday, will be cremated and the ashes sent to the (Contimued on page 8, col. 1)

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