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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 181, 2 August 1941, Page 7

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Bombers And Fighters Raid Enemy Convoy BRITISH SKIES QUIET British omcial Wireless. Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 1. In daylight to-day Blenheim aircraft of the Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, attacked enemy vessels in a convoy off the Belgian coast, states an Air Ministry communique, which continues: "Bombs were seen to straddle two ships in the convoy and later in the day a ship of about 2000 tons was seen to be burning and in a sinking condition. Two bombers and one fighter are missing." An official communique states that, apart from one aircraft which made a brief landfall on the south coast of fcjigland, no enemy activity over this country has been' reported up to 8 p.m. to-day ar.d no borr.bs were dropped. One enemv aircraft was destroyed last night. " ■ To-day's German communique claims that the ports of Great Yarmouth and Plymouth were attacked last night. It is. however, authori» tatively stated that actually not a single bomb wr.s dropped within 40 miles of these places. Very fevr enemy aircraft were reported and there was not a single casualty. Th« only damage was the severance of n £un telqpbeae wises.