The Archive · 1940

Warplanes Over Hague

Amsterdam, Jan. 23, Two antiaircraft shells fell at Katwijk and Kwinsteul, near the Hague, at about 130 pin, yesterday, Dut "oonsed no "serious damage Toward 1.30 pim., the Hague corre: pondent of the "Felegraat" reported, he saw a warplane fying over the suburbs of the capital, coming. from, the south-east and bound for. the north-west. Anti-aircraft shell ex-Dutch batteries went into heard clearly in The Hague. Two other warplanes were The British steamer Balt Anglia (1,523 ons) and the Norwegian vessel Pluto (598 tons) struck mines and sank off the north-east coast of Eng-Jand today.

There "were no casualties, the 27 members of the crew of the Balt Anglia and the 22 sailors from the Pluto being landed at a fishing village noticed at the same time over Schewening, near the capital. They swiftly made off when fred upon, he Havas,

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