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RAID BY BRITISH PLANES ON WILHELMSHAVEN GERMAN DENIAL OF ATTACKS ON WARSHIPS. "ONLY TWO BOMBS DROPPED." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BERLIN. April 6. The official news agency states: "The British Air Ministry announcement of attacks on warships near Wilhelmshaven is a complete invention. Only a single plane entered the region of the mouth, of the Elbe on the afternoon of April 4, and because of heavy antiaircraft. fire it could drop only two bombs on the water without aiming at any target." ATTACKS ON WARSHIPS AIR MINISTRY GIVES SOME DETAILS. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. The Air Ministry has announced that, in addition to four enemy destroyers attacked in the raid' by the bomber command on the Jade Estuary last Thursday, an enemy warship was observed near Wilhelmshaven and was attacked with bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1940, Page 5
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