NO DAMAGE DONE
BY BRITISH BOMBING RAIDS ACCORDING TO GERMAN REPORT. SHIPS ALLEGEDLY SUNK. . (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN. July 28. A communique states: “Despite bad weather our planes sank a 7000-ton auxiliary cruiser, two destroyers and a 5000-ton merchantman and probably sank a destroyer and two merchantmen!. They also bombed Swansea and several Cornish aerodromes. “British planes dropped a few bombs over northern Germany but no damage was done. “We shot down five British planes over the Channel. Two of ours are missing. “The British shot down an unarmed German seaplane, marked with the Red Cross, when the German plane was attempting to save the crew of a plane which had been froced down to the sea.”
A special communique, issued later, stated that a U-boat attacked a strongly guarded convoy and sank five armed ships, totalling 48,000 tons, within a brief period, including an auxiliary cruiser of 18,000 tons. The submarine also torpedoed an armed merchantman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 5
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