FLEET BOMBED
ROYAL AIR FORCE EXPLOIT AT WILHELMSHAVEN TWO BATTLESHIPS SEVERELY DAMAGED. GERMANS CLAIM FIVE BRITISH PLANES LOST. Further details received by radio from Daventry indicate that the Royal Air Force’s raid on the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven was successful- One battleship was severely damaged by several direct hits by high-power bombs and heavy damage was caused to another battleship. According to the German News Agency five British bombers were brought down. A Danish port on the Jutland coast was bombed from the air by unknown aircraft and several people were killed and wounded. OFFICIALLY REPORTED. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 4. The London correspondent of the United Press of America states that it is officially reported that British' planes bombarded the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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129FLEET BOMBED Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6
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