GERMAN REPORT
MANY SUCCESSES CLAIMED INCLUDING CAPTURE OF SUBMARINE. FOUND DAMAGED BY MINE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) BERLIN, May 6. A communique states: The Allies continue to bring up artillery and reinforcements from the north to Narvik. 1 German fighters hit a battleship with a bomb, exploded a munition depot, and shot down two Blenheim bombers near Terschelling. Seaplanes captured a British submarine, found damaged by a mine in the Kattegat. The Official News Agency states that German patrol vessels approached the submarine before it could scuttle itself, and a German officer took over the command and towed the submarine out of the minefield, in which it had been drifting. The British crew said a mine put out of action the diving apparatus and damaged the engines. A Swedish fishing boat earlier had been blown up in the same minefield.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 5
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