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Hits Claimed On Three Cruisers (Received April 18, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 1.8. The official news agency in Berlin claims filim 1 . German planes bombed and sank a British cruiser off the Norwegian coast, and hit two others so heavily that it i.s doubtful whether they can reach a British port. LONDON, April 17.
The German High Command states: “A submarine sank a destroyer of the Tribal class in the Shetlands. Our air force attacked naval units and sank a submarine and a cruiser 95 miles north of Molde Fiord, and also registered two hits with heavy bombs on a large transport. Lockheed, Hurricane ami Sunderland planes were shot down. One of our machines has not returned.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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119GERMAN BOMBS Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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