ATTACK ON TRAWLERS
DECKS MACHINE-GUNNED BY NAZI PLANES RAIN OF BOMBS FOLLOWS. RAIDERS PUT TO FLIGHT BY WARSHIP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) LONDON, February 20. The “Daily Mail” says that 12 Nazi planes swooped down on trawlers in the North Sea, off Scotland, repeatedly machine-gunning their decks and then raining down bombs. The raiders made off when a warship approached. MORE RAIDING SMALL BRITISH STEAMER MISSING. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 20. Enemy aeroplanes twice attacked shipping thirty miles from the North-East Coast this afternoon. A Norfolk lifeboat put out. Other attacks occurred off Lincolnshire and Suffolk and people in South-East Essex heard machine-gun fire. The steamer Hop, of 1351 tons, bound to the Tyne from Bergen, is believed to have been lost, with a crew of seventeen. A number of trawlers encountered enemy aircraft off the North-East Coast of Scotland yesterday. The enemy are believed to have attacked, but the result is not known.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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