- 10 Jan 2024 13:00
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January 10, Wednesday
Invasion plans found in German plane
The Luftwaffe HQ in Berlin is in turmoil today after news from the German embassy in Brussels tells of the crash-landing of a German military plane near the Belgian town of Mechelen-sur-Meuse.
The plane, on a flight from Munster to Cologne, became lost in thick cloud. After it came down, one of the passengers jumped out and raced for a clump of bushes, where he set fire to papers he had taken from his briefcase. Belgian soldiers closed in and retrieved the partly-burned papers.
The man was identified as Major Helmut Reinberger, a Luftwaffe staff office, and the papers were operational plans, complete with maps, for a German airborne attack on the west, to begin January 14th with saturation bombing attacks on French airfields.
When distraught aides give news of the lost plans to Hitler, he says, “It’s things like this that can lose us the war.”
Rail buckles under blackout pressure
In Britain, widespread complaints about train delays have been excused by the Railway Executive on the grounds of the blackout, which prolongs the loading of goods vans and makes for late starting. It also blames unexpected arrivals at ports of shipments of fresh food, which have to be distributed hurriedly by commandeering trains. Troop movements are also a factor.
Passengers point out that this does not explain why so many trains run late in the daytime. Even daily commuter journeys habitually take half an hour longer than advertised, if not more.
Invasion plans found in German plane
The Luftwaffe HQ in Berlin is in turmoil today after news from the German embassy in Brussels tells of the crash-landing of a German military plane near the Belgian town of Mechelen-sur-Meuse.
The plane, on a flight from Munster to Cologne, became lost in thick cloud. After it came down, one of the passengers jumped out and raced for a clump of bushes, where he set fire to papers he had taken from his briefcase. Belgian soldiers closed in and retrieved the partly-burned papers.
The man was identified as Major Helmut Reinberger, a Luftwaffe staff office, and the papers were operational plans, complete with maps, for a German airborne attack on the west, to begin January 14th with saturation bombing attacks on French airfields.
When distraught aides give news of the lost plans to Hitler, he says, “It’s things like this that can lose us the war.”
Rail buckles under blackout pressure
In Britain, widespread complaints about train delays have been excused by the Railway Executive on the grounds of the blackout, which prolongs the loading of goods vans and makes for late starting. It also blames unexpected arrivals at ports of shipments of fresh food, which have to be distributed hurriedly by commandeering trains. Troop movements are also a factor.
Passengers point out that this does not explain why so many trains run late in the daytime. Even daily commuter journeys habitually take half an hour longer than advertised, if not more.
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—Edmund Burke