NAZI SHIPS SUNK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 237, 5 October 1940, Page 9

NAZI SHIPS SUNK.

BOMBED OFF NORWAY.

British Air Offensive On Enemy

Coastline. British Official Wireless. (Reed. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 4. An Admiralty communique states that further damage was inflicted on enemy shipping by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, operating over the coast of Norway. Skuas attacked an enemy supply ship of 5000 tons, which was lying alongside a jetty at Haugesund. Hits were obtained with bombs.

A ship was left heavily on fire, both in the forward and after holcta, in the Bjiornc Fiord.

Skuas also attacked an enemy supply ship of about 2000 tons. Bombs were seen to hit the ship, which was considered sunk. The aircraft was subsequently attacked by a superior force of enemy fighters. One Skua is missing.

British bombers, it is learned, officially carried out daylight attacks to-day on various objectives on the enemy-occupied coast x>f Holland.

FATE OF CHILDREN.

Entombed In Basement Of

Home.

MOTHER'S BRIEF ABSENCE. j (Reed. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4. Four children left by their mother in the basement of a house demolished in" a daylight raid on London are believed to have been buried. The mother escaped. She was forced to run out for shopping because of the length of the warning.

A 12-year-old boy was released from wreckage in east London after being entombed for eeveral hours. His mother was killed.

STEAMER BOMBED.

(Reed. 1 p.m.)

OSLO, Oct. 4

Five British planes bombed a Norwegian steamer north of StaA anger. Sixteen men were injured.