GERMAN ACCOUNT
OF ENGAGEMENT AT HORN REEFS. ALLEGED SHOOTING DOWN OF BRITISH PLANES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) BERLIN, January 14. The newspapers publish an eyewitness account of the Horn Reefs attack. It states that the German destroyers were lying in wait for enemy merchantmen attempting to reach England. Several times they saw wreckage of ships which had started on the voyage despite warnings and had been sunk. The destroyers suddenly sighted eight planes. Two, flying low, attacked. The anti-aircraft guns roared and hit their mark with the first shots. One plane crashed in the sea a hundred' yards away and broke up. A secondi lower flyer was hit, but escaped. Meanwhile six more British planes approached. The destroyers' accurate anti-aircraft fire made two machines each drop two bombs far astern. Then all the planes turned for home.
A British Air Ministry spokesman stated that the Gerbau claim to have, shot down one British bomber and damaged another was entirely untrue.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1940, Page 6
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