Evening star., 1940-03-28
British Warp|ane
Shot Down Afire by
Dutch Fighters
Nozi Croft Is FeIIed
OFF Northeast Coast
Of Scotland
PEACE COMMON AIM, British Am
bassador tells Japanese; better re-
lations between London and Toxic
predicted by Craigie. Page AS
BY the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
British flyers today shot down q
German warplane off the northeast
coast of Scotland but acknowledged
the loss of two of their own-one to
flyers of the neutral Netherlands
during the night in tit-for-tat scout
ing flights.
Netherlands pursuit planes ma
chine-gunned a British bomber early
today over Netherlands territory, an
Amsterdam communique announced.
and sent it down in flames on the
Island of Ysselmonde, southwest Of
Rotterdam.
A later announcement disclosed
that second foreign plane of unde-
termined nationality had been fired
on by anti-aircraft guns on the out
skirts of Amsterdam early today and
apparently hit. Though the plane
lost about 1000 feet of altitude it
leveled off and flew away toward
the west.
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One of the crew jumped to his
death, but the remaining four stayed
with the ship and escaped being
burned. Netherlands authorities said
they would be interned.
The other of the two British air.
craft which the Air Ministry said
failed to return from extensive
reconnaissance flights over North
west Germany" was reported shot
down over Helgoland Blight.
The German high commands s
communlque said the Germans
themselves accounted for two Brit
ish planes. It said German pursuit
planes shot down British Bristol
Blenheim plane at Helgoland Blight
while during the night another was
shot down by anti-aircraft artillery
and a portion of the crew captured
Two lifeboats, meanwhile, were
reported to have made a fruitless
search for another British plane
believed down on the North Sea
after a patrol flight. The lifeboat
crews were attracted by flares.
German Sub Interned.
In the war at sea a German sub
marine which became stranded in
Norwegian waters was interned with
its crew, according to a dispatch
from Oslo.
On land the French high COM
mand reported that German patrol
attacks on French outposts between
the Saar and Rhine Rivers were
'repulsed without difficulty"
British correspondents with the
Royal Air Force in France reported
yesterday that British fighting
planes had brought down at least
five and possibly seven German
planes In three distinct battles over
the western front, losing only one
plane themselves. The British were
outnumbered 81 to in the fights,
the dispatches stated.
DNB, German official news agency
quoted an authoritative source as
denying the British report.
Hit by Planes Fire.
The British bomber shot down By
the Dutch was flying in a westerly
direction over Netherlands territory
when, the Amsterdam communique
said, ut was hit by the gunfire OF
a pursuit plane"
Eye-witnesses said two Neither
land fighter planes came from the
north and circled the British
plane.
Witnesses said they could not tell
whether the invader, a Bristol Blen-
helm, replied to the fire OF the
Netherlands fighters.
The bomber was flying at an alti-
tude Of 1900 feet when it was inter-
cepted by two fighters which took
off from Waalhaven Military Air
port near Rotterdam. Thee rattle
of machine guns was heard and
(see WAR, Page A-3D