BLASTED OUT.
U-BOATS LEAVE HOME PORTS. H v NEW BASES ESTABLISHED. (Rec.. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. Blasted from their home ports by the R.A.F.' U-bo.ats_ are making for more remote bases on the French Atlantic coast, reports the “Express” correspondents at Lisbon. Giant shelters of reinforced concrete are being built to protect the U-boats from air attacks when they return from Atlantic cruises. -Many U-boats have been transferred from German ports and Cherbourg, St. Malo and Brest, these sheltering in, if not operating from, the creeks on the irregular coastline between. L’Orient, St. Nazaire and Bordeaux, will apparently be used as the U-boats’ parent base. North ol' Bordeaux the Germans are building a huge airfield.. Presumably this will be used by planes to reinforce attacks on Atlantic'shipping. ‘
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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