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JERQUE BOMBED AGAIN SHIP .HEAVILY DAMAGED. OVER 200 CASUALTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) GRENOBLE, July 8. A French naval communique states that British warplanes again attacked the warship Dunkerque, with bombs and machine-guns, killing or injuring over 200 sailors and inflicting additional heavy damage. BRITISH REPLY NO TRUTH WHATEVER IN ALLEGATIONS. (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. An Admiralty communique states that the Vichy Government is reported to have issued an account of the British action at Oran containing allegations that our forces machine-gunned French sailors, both on the deck of the Dunkerque and while they were trying to abandon their ships. There is no truth whatever in such allegations, which the Germans have clearly dictated to the French Government. Machine-guns were not used in either action against the Dunkerque. It will be recalled that the first action occurred after Admiral Gensoul had signalled that he was ordering the crews to evacuate the vessel and there should, therefore have been no men aboard the Dunkerque when the second action was taken.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 5
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