The Archive · 1940

Fifth Column Busy

Mr. Little warned that there may be in England a German fifth column organization "as formidable as that in Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway."

Many more arrests of suspected sabotage agents were made in British factories yesterday.

New fears that Germany was planning to land large numbers of parachute troops in England grew last night following reports of an incident on Salisbury Plain. Two men were seen consulting maps in a field near a military camp. When challenged by a fermer, they jumped into an auto and drove away.

The farmer noted the licence plates on the automobile but police inves-revealed that the were continually bombed and machine-gunned from the air—hospital ships, troop ships, everything.

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