GERMAN CLAIMS
SUCCESSES BY U-BOATS AND SPEED-BOATS
(Received July 6, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, July 5,
Claiming that German submarines recently scored "a number of notable successes in fighting England, the German High Command says that a U-boat sank 34,400 tons of shipping, another 21,043 tons, and a third 31,100 tons, including five steamers in convoys. Speed-boats during the operations south-west of Portland torpedoed the armed merchantmen Hartlepool and the British Corporal, and also sank in a convoy a tanker, and an armed merchantman. A patrol flotilla destroyed an enemy submarine off the Norwegian coast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 12
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