WILDER THAN EVER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 7

WILDER THAN EVER.

LATEST NAZI CLAIMS. Keceived August 13, 11.40 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 12. A communique states: “Air units attacking Portland yesterday, destroyed a jetty, a. floating dock, and a loading pier and set fire to oil depots. Two merchantmen destroyed received direct hits. In the neighbouring harbour of Weymouth we sank a merchantman. We' also attacked a British convoy in the Thames Estuary, sinking three merchantmen totalling 17,000 tons and badly damaging two destroyers and four merchantmen'. . “Air fights developed in the course of these attacks in which the enemy suffered heavy losses. Our planes last night attacked the aircraft works at Filton and Crewe, the harbour works at Cardiff and Bristol, an oil depot at Avonmouth, and dropped mines at the entrances to British haibours. Enemy planes Inst night bombed non-military objectives m Northern and Western Germany and the results were negligible. . , “The enemy’s total air losses yesterday were 90 planes, and eight barrage balloons, besides three planes brought down bv our anti-aircraft fire. Twenty-one of our planes are missing. A U-boat sank a convoyed merchantm A later communique states: "Planes

attacked a convoy off Margate this morning, sank four merchantmen totalling 10,000 tons, and set fire to several others. ”