Since the issue of June 20, 1944, is not in our archives, the following is a selection of the news from the previous day`s paper.
LONDON: After a lull all morning, pilotless aircraft had been flying over southern England at fairly regular intervals throughout late afternoon and evening on Saturday [June 17]. Ground defences continued to fire short but often heavy bursts at them.
The Under-Secretary for Air Captain Harold Balfour said today [June 18] of the pilotless bomber: `The new German secret weapon has been hailed with all the trimmings of totalitarian fury. The Nazi radio has excelled itself in sadistic joy, neurotic gloating and an absurd exaggeration of its air weapon. It is the most encouraging sign of the growing mental panic of Hitler, Goebbels and the rest.
Mr. F. Miles, the noted British aircraft designer, declared that the British Government turned down a practical design for pilotless plane on the ground that it was an `indiscriminate` weapon.
[Meanwhile,] There were 379 seizures and 203 deaths from cholera in the United Provinces during the week ending June 19, according to a note on epidemics issued by the Government.
