The Archive · 1940

United! Press

Germans Admit "Possibitity German nitted the "possibility" that a British Fefugee ship may have been sunk on the north Atlantic last Tuesday.

German newspapers denied that the British ship, on which almost 300 erxons Lost their lives, had been sunk. a German submarine—United Press, wish Offi Naz Folkestone. Sept. 24.

Despite Chancellor Adolf Hitler's hate for his race, a Jewish oticer yesterday saved the life of a Nazi Bio at the isk of losing his own Ute, Tiewtenant M. E. Jacobe, Jewish officer of the "British Army here, plunged into a heavy sca and rescued '4. wounded "Mazi pilot. Frederich Dilthes, who was on the verge of drowning afler his machine, 9 messerschmitt, had been shot dows Atter a battle with Spitfires. the Messerschmitt dropped over the edge fof a cliff and plunged into the sea 00 yards from the Local breakwater. It sank instantly.

Lieut. Jacobs and others heard the pilot call out. Lieut. Jacobs threw Off his tunic and dived into the sea. He swam the 300 yards in fast time fand began bringing in the wounded German" ashore.

Another British soldier also plunged into the sea to id Lieut. Jacobs, but he became exhausted and had to be rescued by a fishing boat, which also only in order to continue the war against our former enemy. But the facts show that this is not so. Ex: General de Gaulle jg leading. forels forces in an attack against his eompatriots, Those Frenchmen who still hesitated to consider him a traitor how Ive their eyes op "The meeting of the French tuner Cabinet was attended by M. Bausdoi Platen, Minister of Colonies.

Dakar is the seat of the general government of French West Africa. The colonies of Senegal. French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, French Dakar lon are each under a governor sub-Jeet to the direction of the Governor-General at Dakar—Reuler.

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