COMPLETE FAILURE

Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 7

COMPLETE FAILURE

ATTACK ON BRITISH WARSHIPS SEVERAL GERMAN LOSSES * (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 28. (Received September 29, at 10 a.m.) Further details are now available relating to the incident in the North Sea to which Mr Churchill referred in the House of Commons yesterday. It appears that the British ships were proceeding on their normal occasions when they tvere attacked by German aircraft. The weather was fine, but there wore some clouds, and these were used by the German bombers to dive from and attack the large ships. The cruisers were attacked by very high-flying machines.

The whole action had the results already stated —there were no British losses of men and no damage to the ships, while one German aeroplane was shot down, one was badly damaged, and one made a forced landing and was captured with its crew.

ARK ROYAL "SAFE AND SOUND "

BERLIN, September 28. (Received September 29, at H a.m.) A Berlin radio repeats the claim that the Germans hit an aircraft carrier on Tuesday, and asks: “ Where is the Ark Royal? ” ..LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.) It is stated that the Ark Royal is “ safe and sound! at her allotted station.” _____ FURTHER CLAIM BERLIN, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11.30 a.m.) An air squadron attacked a British cruiser off the Isle of May, in the Firth of Forth, NO CONFIRMATION IN LONDON LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 1.5 p.m.) No confirmation is obtainable in London of the German claim that planes successfully attacked a heavy cruiser. This presumably is a continuation of the incorrect German claims about the North Sea naval air engagement, in which there were no British casualtes. GERMAN U-BOATS TWENTY FAIL TO RETURN PARIS, September 28. (Received September 29, at 10.5 a.m.) It is authoritatively stated that only seven German submarines of the 27 sent out to prey on merchantmen have returned to their bases. CAPTURED CREWS INTERNED AVERAGE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.) A “ considerable number ” of U-boat prisoners have arrived in an internment camp in the heart of the northern industrial area, states a Ministry of Information communique. The men looked fit, but a trifle haggard. Their average age is about 23, / ANOTHER SWEDISH VICTIM TORPEDOED OFF NORWEGIAN COAST LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.) The Swedish steamer Nyland was torpedoed off the south-west coast of Norway. The crew of 20 was rescued. HITLER AT WILHELMSHAVEN TO CONGRATULATE RETURNING SUBMARINE CREWS WILHELMSHAVEN, September 28. (Received September 29, at 10 a.m.) Herr Hitler arrived to congratulate returning submarine crews. NEWS DF THE BREMEN AT RUSSIAN PORT MALMO (Sweden), September 28. (Received September 29, at 10 a.m.) Members of the crew of the Estonian vessel Kuressar asserted that they saw the Bremen at -Murmansk. SINKING OF THE COURAGEOUS RESPONSIBLE SUBMARINE RETURNS TO BASE LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 2 p.m.) The German radio announces that the submarine which torpedoed, the Courageous arrived at Wilhelmshaveu. Admiral Raeder gave the commander the iron cross, first class, and crew iron crosses, second class.