GERMAN REPORT
BATTLES OVER ENGLAND SOME AMBITIOUS CLAIMS. ATTACKS ON SHIPPING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, August 30. A communique states: “German air force activity was confined on August 29 to armed reconnaissance. Several air battles developed over south-east England. German bombing squadrons made night attacks on several aerodromes in Lincoln and Suffolk, industrial plants at Felixtowe, aircraft factories at Weybriclge and South Langley and also harbour installations at Dundee, Leith, Hartlepool and Liverpool. Widespread fires among individual targets, particularly at the harbour of Liverpool, showed the success of the attack. The mining of British harbours was continued.
“British planes last night again bombed Western Germany, concentrating on non-military objectives. Residential districts were hit in a number of localities in the Rhur. A.R.P. services quickly extinguished fires. Other material damage was insignificant. The enemy lost two planes during night flights over the Ruhr and nineteen during air battles; also six barrage balloons. Seven of our planes have not returned.
“A U-boat sank three enemy merchantmen, totalling 21,000 tons, out of a strongly-guarded convoy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 8
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