GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 249, 29 July 1940, Page 5

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

AUXILIARY CRUISER SUNK. U-BOAT CLAIMS FIVE VESSELS. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.in.) BERLIN, July 28. A communique stataes: “Despite had weather, our ’planes sank a 7000-ton auxiliary cruiser, two destroyers, and a 5000-ton merchantman, and probably a destroyer and two merchantmen. “Our ’planes also bombed Swansea and several Cornish aerodromes. “British ’planes dropped a few bombs over northern Germany but no damage was caused. AVe shot down five British ’planes over the Channel. Two of ours are missing. The British shot down an unarmed Gorman seaplane marked with a Red Cross when a Gorman was attempting to save the crew of a ’plane which had been forced down at sea.” A special communique issued later stated: “A U-boat attacked a stronglyguarded convoy and sank five armed ships totalling 48,000 tons' within a brief period. The victims included an auxiliary cruiser of 18,000 tons. The submarine also torpedoed an armed merchantman.”

POLISH AIRMAN’S PRAISE. . OVER TARGET TO THE MINUTE. BOMBING OF HIS: OWN LAND RECALLED. • LONDON, July 28. A high Polish Air Force officer has given impressions after having boon taken as a member of the crow on a Royal Air Force operational flight over Germany. The aircraft in which lie was flying was one which successfully attacked the aircraft factory at Gotha, and which also shot down a Mcsserschmitt 109. The Polish officer said that his strongest impression was the perfect collaboration of the crow. “Despite poor weather conditions the navigation was very exact,” he said, “and we were over tho target practically to the minute on the estimated time of arrival which had been set in advance.” The officer described the successful bombing of the aircraft factory, and added: “I am very glad to have had the opportunity of taking part in this raid, for I have seen something of what the Germans have done to us in my own country.”