NAVAL SUCCESSES
TWO ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN.
SUBMARINE ATTACKS CONVOY.
TWO SHIPS HIT 'EY TORPEDOES. united Press Association.—Copyright.). (Roc. 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. Ail Admiralty communique announced this evening that s two German air- ■— craft had been shot down to-day by tho guns of His Majesty’s . ships. One Wlessorschmitt 110 was shot down by the destroyer Valorous, and the other, a Heinkol 111 by combined fire of the destroyer Avonvale and tho trawler Kinston Beryl. No casualties or dam-r age were sustained by -any, of his y Ma-,, i; jesty’s ships in these encounters. The Admiralty announced to-night: “One of our submarines in the cell-..., - tral Mediterranean carried out a successful attack on a south-bound convoy of lieavily-ladon transjiofisi 7 'and"’’ supply ship's. A ship of about' 12,000." tons was hit by two torpedoes. A ship of about GOOD toils was also-hit by a torpedo.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 153, 10 April 1941, Page 5
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