EIREAN PROTEST.
NAZIS BOMB STEAMER. Received August 3, 12.38 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. Tlie Eireann Government announces that a German bomber attacked and damaged (lie steamer Kerry Head near the entrance to Oyster Haven (on the South Coast of Eire). There were no casualties. The Eireann Charge d’Affaires in Berlin has been instructed strongly to protest and. claim compensation for damage. TENDER ATTACKED. The Trinity House tender Alert is the latest victim of Germany’s illegal attacks against lightships. Three German planes bombed and machine-gun-ned the Alert, which was on her way to a lightship with 30 relief lightmen and a crew of 39. The bomhs missed, but several members of the crew and the lightmen were wounded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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117EIREAN PROTEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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