Moscow, Feb. 20.
While the Soviet press today took p the cudgels on Germany's behalf the Altmark case, the official newspaper "Pravda" "also criticized the German organ wusiabe" for accusing Moscow having, ambitions reaching The "Pravda" voiced indignation over the fact that a German newspaper should utilize "British argu ments" against the USSR.
Fighting Germany's battle in the Altmark affair was the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" which al-
They were among the ships res cently equipped to parry such attacks, fand when the swooped to deck level, ler opened machine.gui fire and peppered the allacker.
The German plane replied with! machine-guns, but dropped no bombs, then disappeared without damaging the vessel" or Injuring the crews. The trawlers then continued their] peaceful fishing—Reuter. get: "The Franco-British" war bloc going from abjurations to threats and direct meddling in the internal affairs of neutral states"—Havas.
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