SAME OLD STORY
NAZI BOMBERS’ SUCCESS BRITISH DO NO DAMAGE BERLIN AIR COMMUNIQUE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel, Copyrlg-bi) (Received Sept. 5. 11.50 a.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 4 “We yesterday again bombed aerodromes in the South of England and effectively plastered the hangars and buildings, causing several fires,” says the German communique. “Air battles again developed, most favourably for the German bombers. “Last night we caused extensive fires in and armament factories, as well as aerodromes at Liverpool, Avonmouth, Bristol, Portland, Poole, Rochester and Middlesbrough. Further Fantastic Claims “British planes flew over Germany last night and attempted to attack Berlin, over which only one plane
penetrated. No bombs were dropped on the capital. Bombs fell elsewhere, but no substantial damage was done. “The enemy yesterday lost 62 planes, while 10 of ours are missing.
“A U-boat during one expedition sank six armed merchantmen totalling 51,507 tons.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19400905.2.49.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144SAME OLD STORY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in