The Archive · 1940

Telephone Line Cut

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completing reports, even though unconfirmed here, tightened the already tense ätme ili Hungary, where it was N that armed áction anywhere in the Balkans' might be fateful. The cápita], therefore, was jpzxiously awaiting confirmation of 'A Rumanian pursuit plane attacked and datnaged à Hungarian bomber on the Rumano-Hungarian frontier, near Debrecen, directly east of Budapest, yesterday, it was reported here last night, The bomber landed safely, but one member of its crew, was wounded, it was said.

According to the official Hungarian news agency, INTI, the Hungarian bomber was just able to teach the Debrécen airport emergency landing field. The bomber Was said to have been carrying out a reconnaissance flight within Hungarian tettitory when the clash occurred.

"Warlike Action"

The incident attracted particular attention here as it took place on the eve of the beginning of conferences between the Berlin and Rome ministers to Hungary and 'Rumania on' the Rumano-Hungarian dispute over Transylvatia.'

Some Hungarian sources asserted thát, äs the clash occurred over TTA territory, "there was no ity of mistaken identity......

"THIS constitutes a warlike action," they declared.

Official reports of the aerial clash did "not indicate whether the attack began near the frontier and only culminated at Debrecén, or whether it began and ended there. Hungarian immediately began an investigation and instructed the Minister to Budapest, M, Ladislas Bardossy, to protest.

(Reports of another border incident at Lajos-Tanaya, near Mako, lacked oficial confirmation, although official quarters admitted that there may have been an ex-ge of shots between Rumanian dnd "Hungarian patrols there. An official, unconfirmed version of the are O sol were' dropper ili one" district, incident said Rumanian frontier which Home Guards halted and interposes fired on Hungarian gendar-A detachment of Hungarian over a wide area yester-reinforcements were immediately to the border from Szeged, "but'"no" trace of parachutes or could be. found.

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