ENEMY LOSSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 7

ENEMY LOSSES.

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. HEAVY TOLL EXACTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 10. Though there is no confirmation of naval actions taking place in the vicinity of Norway other than those referred to by Mr Chamberlain in his speech in the House of Commons, the following losses were incurred by the German navy yesterday and toda3' ill the operations in those waters. Tuesday.—A 7200-ton merchant ship torpedoed and sunk; the 10 000 ton heavy cruiser Blucher was sunk by Norwegian batteries and mined; the 6000-toii light cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk by Norwegian action; one cruiser, class unknown, was torpedoed and probably sunk by a British submarine; and one cruiser was hit by one bomb in Bergen Harbour by the R.A.F. Wednesday.—The ammunition supply ship Ravensfeld was sunk by British destroyers at Narvik; six merchant i.h.ps were sunk by Britisli destroyers in Narvik; a 1600-ion destroyer was torpedoed bv British destroyers in Narvik and is "believed sunk ; three 1600 ton destroyers were set on fire in i Narvik by British destroyers; two other destroyers are believed damaged, and one cruiser, class unknown, was hit by three bombs in Bergen Harbour by the R.A.F. Though there are reports of many further enemy casualties, there had been no confirmation received in London late to night. ' Reports from Stockholm (says the Press Association) stated that the Germans have lost to-day nine warship*— six cruisers, two destroyers, and one undefined. Furthermore, the Germans have had two cruisers and three destroyers damaged, and seven supply ships and a number of transports sunk. , . . Three of the warships were sunk by the British and the fourth, a destroyer, bv the Norwegians.