ANOTHER EFFORT
"EIGHT BOMBERS SHOT DOWN." LONDON. December 14. The Berlin wireless now claims that eight bombers were shot down in I lie battle near Wilhelmshaven. raised again GERMANS NOW CLAIM TEN VICTIMS. (Received This Day. 10.20 a.m.' LONDON. December 15. A Berlin communique regarding the Heligoland Bight air battle claims that of the twenty attackers, ten were brought down by German fighters and that one German plane camo down in the sea. It adds that a single British bomber, which approached the air base at Borkum yesterday, without dropping bombs, was driven off by antiaircraft fire. Two other planes attempted to attack the Island of S.vlt. but all four bombs dropped into the sea.
RAID ON ISLANDS ENEMY SEAPLANES BOMBED. (Received This Day. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. December 15. It is officially announced that the Royal Air Force again patrolled bases at Borkum. Norderney and Sylt last night. In the early hours of the morning enemy seaplanes, observed al moorings, were attacked with bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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