BOMBING ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 5

BOMBING ATTACKS

ON WARSHIPS IN NORTH SEA NO HITS AND NO CASUALTIES. ADMIRALTY AND GERMAN REPORTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, November 26. The Admiralty announced hist evening: “Two bombing' attacks by German aircraft were made on his Majesty’s ships in the North Sea this afternoon. Many bombs were dropped, but no hits obtained. There were no casualties.” The German official version of the attack is that four British warships were directly hit' 560 miles from the German coast, all the aeroplanes returning to their base despite anti-air fire. Daventry reports that on Saturday morning German aircraft were detected near the Orkney Islands. One machine which appeared over the Shetland Islands was driven off by anti-aircraft fire. Four hundred miles farther south, in the Clyde area, an air-raid warning was sounded, but no machines were seen and the all-clear signal was given after half an hour. Last week 19 enemy machines and 50 airmen were accounted for. HEAVY BLOW ALLEGED BY GERMANS. IN AIR ATTACK ON SHIPS. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. November 26. According to a Berlin message the German Official News Agency, after claiming a heavy blow against the British fleet, states that the air attack on British naval ships occurred midway between the Shetlands and the British coast, a cruiser of the Aurora Class sustaining, as confirmed by photographs, a direct hit near the stern.