Lisbon, Feb, 11, Five airmen leaped from a German four-engined bomber and set fire to ihe machine when it made a forced landing at Santa Marta, near Moura. Alemtejo. They then changed into civilian clothes and made off towards the Spanish frontier only a few miles away.
The plane was marked with a swastika, and farm labourers who saw the crash stated that the fuselage bore traces of machine-gun bullets. The remains of documents written in German were rescued The Germans are not believed to possess any new gas, Indeed, experts consider that no new gas which can be used in chemical warfare exists.
What would be new would be some hitherto unforeseen method of using the weapon. The use of gas to terrorize the civilian population is considered hardly likely.—Reuter,
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