GERMAN CLAIMS.
SINKING OF MERCHANTMEN. BOMBING OF BRITISH TARGETS (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) BERLIN, July 24. The 24th communique states: “Our ’planes bombed railways, roads and supply depots in southern England. They.sank two patrol ships and a trawler in the English Channel. (Another shin was damaged and bombers sank an enemy submarine in the North Sea. “A U-boat- sank two armed merchantmen totalling 14,000 tons. German fighters also sank 17,000 tons of merchant shipping in a-convoy comprising five merchantmen, this morning, and also set fire to a. merchantman. “Enemy ’planes last night bom hied various places in northern apd western Germany but did not cause much damage. Three- enemy ’planes were shot down. One German ’plane is missing.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 246, 25 July 1940, Page 5
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