BY SEA & AIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 4

BY SEA & AIR

ATTACKS ON THE GERMANS IN SCANDINAVIA MANY ENEMY SHIPS SUNK. WITH HEAVY LOSSES OF LIFE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 5. The Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” says British naval and air activity is making German navigation precarious on the'entire Scandinavian coast. Six merchantmen were destroyed outside Oslo during the week ended August 26. An oil tanker of 10,000 tons was also sunk in Oslo’s inner fiord. Hundreds of bodies of German soldiers have been recently . washed ashore between Trondheim and Tromso. It is believed British submarines are sinking ships which are transferring men and materials from the Narvik area. \ The Gothenburg correspondent ofrthe British United Press says fishermen report that British warships sank a 12,000-ton German transport off Skagenhorn. The fishermen saw the vessel sink rapidly. Only about a hundred men were rescued. An Air Ministry compunique transmitted by Daventry states that a new objective on the Baltic was attacked by a large force of the R.A.F., when a synthetic oil plant was bombed.