GROSS EXAGGERATIONS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 6, 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, February 5.
The Admiralty's silence regarding the successes claimed by Germany in Saturday's "tip and run" raids on British shipping causes no surprise in informed London circles, where it is recognised that the German claims include the usual exaggerations made in the hope that specific contradictions will reveal much-desired information.
It is pointed out that, unlike submarines, aeroplanes have no opportunity of staying in ■ the vicinity and verifying damage inflicted, and at the best the pilots' reports can only give impressions obtained in a very short space of time. This disability is. probably accentuated in the case of the German bombers, whose crews wisely show no inclination to await the arrival of British fighters.
The return to port of some, and the news of continuation of the voyage of others of the ships attacked, is meanwhile offering convincing evidence of the gross exaggeration of the German claims. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 9
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