GERMAN CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 284, 26 August 1940, Page 7

GERMAN CLAIMS

Reports Of Fires Seen In Britain (Received August 25, 8 p.m.) BERLIN, August 24. The German High Command announced :— “Our aeroplanes yesterday and last night attacked harbour works, dockyards. aerodromes, armament works and troop camps in the Midlands and the North of England, and bombed ammunition works in Banbury, causing violent explosions. Night attacks caused fires which were visible for a great distance at Birstol, Avonmouth, Deyonport, Great Yarmouth, and Cambridge aerodrome. “A few enemy planes ineffectively bombed western Germany last night. Three or four were shot down by antiaircraft guns and chasers. Two of our planes are missing. “U-boats sank more than .100,009 tons of enemy shipping in eight days. One U-boat sank 15.000 tons of shipping, another sank the armed British merchantmen Severnleigh and Brookwood, in addition to an unnamed ship of 4000 tons. A third U-boat torpedoed an 11.000-ton ship.' A German communique issued on August 23 states: “Our lighter formations attacked convoys, one off Berwick and the others in the Downs. and secured several hits on four merchantmen. We also bombed an aerodrome at Mansion. Some air fights developed in south-eastern England in the course of the day, in which our fighters were successful) Fires and explosions showed the success of night attacks against several aerodromes in Cornwall and Wales, an aircraft factory at Reading, and an aero-engine works at Rochester. We continued the mining of British harbours. British planes on the night of August 22 dropped bombs on West Germany, destroyed an apartment bouse, and damaged several other houses. Some civilians were injured. The enemy on August 22 lost 1.1 planes and two balloons. Two of our planes are missing.”