PAID BY GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 5

PAID BY GERMANY

THE RAIDS ON BRITAIN LITTLE DAMAGE DONE (Official Wireless) (Received August 13, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 12 Following the stunning blow delivered yesterday to German bombers when 60 enemy aircraft are known to have been shot down, bringing up to 120 the total destroyed in these attacks within four days, commentators in the press express astonishment at the exorbitantly high » price Germany is prepared to pay for sinking a few very small coastal vessels, causing minor damage by splinters to two naval units, and damaging some private industrial and naval buildings, including a hospital. The Manchester Guardian, remarking that when the Germans have a definite object in view their raiders come by day, says: “This confirms the opinion that they regard their night bombing as insufficiently accurate to give any useful military results.” While accepting the view that the intentions were to damage ports and harbours, the Manchester Guardian finds it difficult to understand why the raiders expended their energies on the town of Weymouth.