GERMAN CLAIMS
AIR AND SEA OPERATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, July 23. A communique states: "Fighting air patrols on Monday night attacked harbour works, air bases and searchlight emplacements* in Britain, dropped bombs on the harbour of Pembroke, with its oil storage tanks, and on Chatham, Sheerness, Edinburgh and Aberdeen; also on air bases near Portsmouth and in the Bristol Channel. In the English Channel and off lhe East Coast three merchantmen were damaged by bombs. “Enemy planes on Monday night again attacked non-military objectives in North and West Germany, and damaged a church and some houses in one village. One plane was shot down One of our planes is missing. "A small U-boat sank 18.000 tons of shipping in a strongly protected convoy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 5
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129GERMAN CLAIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 5
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