GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES
Continuing, Mr Churchill said: "A considerable proportion of the total German cruiser strength has been sunk or put out of action in a single week—the same week in which the Admiral Graf- Spee met her inglorious end. “The Nazi navy and ail' force are venting their spleen by redoubling their efforts in sinking fishing smacks and drowning fishermen in the North Sea. Yesterday and today their air force tried to bomb unarmed merchantmen, including an Italian, even machine-gunning sailors on the decks. I am glad to tell that the heat of their fury far exceeded the accuracy of their aim. Of 24 ships bombed only six small boats engaged in fishing and one coasting vessel were sunk, and the bulk were not even hit by the many bombs aimed at them. “These outrages are the tactics of a guilty regime feeling the long arm of seapower upon its shoulders. Despite the German mines around Britain the whole vast movement of
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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