WAR ON U-BOATS.
NEW SHELTERS SOUGHT
(Tice. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. Blasted from their home ports by the It.A.F., the U-boats are making for more remote bases on the 1* reneh Atlantic coast, reports the Daily Express’s Lisbon correspondent. Giant shelters of reinforced concrete are bein''' built to protect the U-boats from air attacks when they return from their Atlantic cruises. Many U-boats have been transferred from German ports and Cherbourg. St. Malo and Brest; these are sheltering in, it not operating from, creeks on the irregular coastline between Lorient and »t. Nazaire. Bordeaux will apparently lie used as the U-boats’ parent base. N'orth of Bordeaux the Germans are buildin" a huge airfield; presumably this will be used bv planes to reinforce the attacks on Atlantic shipping.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 8
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