Midlands Warned as Hunt Begins; Hoax Suspected London, Aug. 15.
Tolling church bells in English midland villages yesterday morning aroused the count ide, warning that German parachute troops might have been landed, after patrols of Home Guards from' villages surrounding one market town telephoned in reports that grey shapes were floating in the skies.
The alarms turned out armoured troop cars and Bren gun trucks, while guards caught up rifles and with improvised weapons in the great man hunt for phantom paratroops."
Up to early yesterday no parachute ists were reported to have been found.
A company commander of the Home Guard said an alarm had been sent out at midnight that "big shapes were seen floating in the sky
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