GERMAN CLAIMS
SEA AND AIR FIGHTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) BERLIN, July 9. A communique states: “One U-boat sank 56,500 tons of shipping. Another sank the destroyer Whirlwind and several armed merchantmen, including a British naval tanker. “Torpedo-boats sank a British guardship in a renewed attack against the South Coast of England. “Our Air Force attacked harbours, tank depots, airfields, arms factories and shipping objectives, severely damaging wharves at Devonport, oil depots at Ipswich, Canvey Island, Thames Haven and Tilbury, explosive works at Harwich and large chemical works at Billingham. “In the Channel and North Sea a cruiser was destroyed and five merchantmen damaged. “Several planes were destroyed on the ground at one aerodrome. Enemy air attacks were made on July 8 in Belgium and Holland without success. Raids on North-west Germany danjaged houses and killed several persons. The enemy yesterday lost eleven planes. Five German planes are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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