Paris, Apr. 8.
There was considerable activity the air yesterday, five enemy planes being. shot down, one by the Royal Air Force, states a French Army The statement made by Captain Fritz Wiedemann, German Gonsul-General at San Francisco, that 89 Emembers of the crew of the scuttled Nazi liner Colombus were removed by the British authorities from the Hatian motorship Fella (6,072 tons) at Gibraltar on April 4, was denied by the naval authorities here today.
stated that only three men Lwere taken off the vessel for inter jrogation, These men, it is added, been released, and will shortly continue their journey to Taly— communiatie.
German Junker aeropl brought down last night following eral flight over the Hautes Tone re-! ion. The machine fell in flames, the four occupants being killed.
"Intense artillery fire in the region west of the Vosges," records the latest French communique on military rations on the Western Front, issued here today. "There was local ly of patrols," it adds—Reuter.
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