MYTHICAL SINKINGS.
IMAGINATIVE NAZIS. BERLIN, May 4. The High Command claims that German ’planes, diving, attacked a British flagship west of Namsos. A heavy bomb hit the vessel between the fore gun turrets. Half a minute later a column of flame 150 leet high rose up, followed by dense smoke, after which only floating debris was visible. The German radio later claimed that in addition to the battleship .a heavy cruiser was set on fire by a bomb and a destroyer was sunk while escorting troops from Namsos. It adds that a battlecruiser and a destroyer were seriously damaged and a battleship set on fire and a troonship sunk during the raids on Narvik. The British Admiralty describes the reports as typically fantastic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 7
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