ENEMY UNDER WATCH.
NEW POSITIONS LOCATED.
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. From dawn to-dav reconnaissance aircraft of the Coastal Command combed tho enemy coastline over the entire Channel area, states an Air Ministry bulletin..-Searches on a large scale had been organised overnight to ascertain sudden changes in the disposition of the German sea forces. These changes were imposed on tho enemy after a day of harassing bombing action and in consequence of the strongly westerly wind which swept the Channel throughout the night. It blew at gale force at exposed places where German surface craft had been last sighted. - , Most of the Channel was very rough and, as expected, the enemy ships and small craft had scattered and scurried to seek shelter. Their new positions were quickly located to-day by the Coastal Command. These operations were supplementary to the routine anti-submarine and convoy escort patrols, on which 15,000 miles were flown in a few hours notwithstanding tho geucral bad weather. To-day Coastal Command aircraft gave an escort to many large convoys of merchant vessels, and there was not .a .single enemy attempt at molestation by air or sea.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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192ENEMY UNDER WATCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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