London, May 24.
"Berlin is up to it again, spreading the same old story," British political quarters declared this evening, commenting on German Radio's assertion this morning that Britain's first reac-[tion to the "capture of Boulogne" was to consider.abandonment of the French alliance.
Frankfurt Radio, in a French-language broadcast apparently intended for French citizens, declared "the entrance of German troops into Boulogue created general panic in Britain."
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Paris, May 25.
Germany has 20000 trained parachute troops and 2,000 specially constructed transport planes which have yet to see action in the European war, according to reliable quarters here today. 3 Only a small percentage of Germany's parachute troops was employed in Holland and Belgium, these sources claimed. It was believed that Germany was holding these special troops intact for a final effort to break through the Allied defences.
The Germans also have in reserve huge Junkers and Focke-Wolfe Condor four-motored transport planes, it was understood. Six of these gigantic planes dropped 200 parachute troops at one point in Holland, it was disclosed. The number of soldiers There has been only one case in which a soldier was dropped from a Nazi plane in the Northern combat zone and that involved a Belgian spy, who was caught soon after he landed near Gournay, in the Seine et Oise Department.—United Press.
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