EXORBITANT PRICE
GERMAN AIR EFFORTS.
INSIGNIFICANT GAINS. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 13, 9.25 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 12. Following the stunning blow delivered yesterday to German bombers, when 60 enemy aircraft are known to have been shot down, bringing up to 120 the total destroyed in these attacks within four days, commentators in the Press express astonishment at the exorbitantly high price Germany is prepared to pay for sinking a few very small coastal vessels, causing minor damage by splinters to two naval units, and damaging some private industrial and naval buildings, including a hospital.
The Manchester Guardian, remarking that when the Germans have a definite object in view their raiders come by day, says this confirms the opinion'that they regard their night bombing as insufficiently accurate to give any useful military results. _ While accepting that their intentions were to damage ports and harbours, the Guardian finds it difficult to understand why the raiders expended their energies on the town of Weymouth.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 7
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