NAZI VERSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 216, 10 August 1940, Page 8

NAZI VERSION.

CHANNEL ENGAGEMENTS. IMAGINATIVE REPORT. Received August 10, 11.30 a.ni. BERLIN, Aug. 9. A communique states: “Our motor torpedo-boats attacked a stronglyprotected convoy on the night of August 7-8. Despite intense defence from accompanying enemy destroyers, from other convoy units and from the strongly-armed merchantmen themselves, we sank an 8000-ton tanker, a 5000-ton steamer, and a 4000-ton steamer, and set fire to a smaller tanker. Our torpedo-boats returned undamaged. “German dive-bombers with an escort of fighters attacked strongly guarded British convoys southwards of the Isle of Wight on Thursday. Twelve merchantmen totalling 55,000 tons were sunk and seven others severely damaged. Our air force sank and damaged a total of 28 British ships yesterday. Messerschmitts destroyed twelve barrage balloons near Dover. The German fighters hit 49 British machines, including 33 Spitfires. During the larger air battle, near the; Isle of Wight, also at Dover, we lost ten planes. Two made forced landings. “Our planes carried out night attacks on British aeroplane industries in the vicinity of Liverpool, and Bristol, in addition to harbours, aerodromes, and anti-aircraft positions in Southern England. The mining of the entrances to British ports from the air continued according to plan. “British planes last night penetrated different places in Western many. Our defences forced part of the cnemv planes to turn tail, or prevented them from bombing. Isolated bombs caused insignificant damage to houses and fields Some people were injured in a small place in a frontiei region. Anti-aircraft guns shot down two enemy planes.”