Air Raiders Attack Coastal Shipping
aeroplanes twice attacked shipping 30 miles from the northeast coast this afternoon.’ A Norfolk lifeboat put out to sea. There were other attacks off Lincolnshire and Suffolk. People in the south-east of Essex heard machine-gun fire. The Norwegian steamer Hop (1351 tons), bound for the Tyne from Bergen, is believed to have been lost with a crew of 17. A, number of trawlers encountered enemy/aircraft off the north-east coast 'of Scotland 'yesterday.
(Received 1 p.m.)
LONDON, February 19.
The enemy is believed to have attacked, but the result is not known. •Twelve German aeroplanes swooped on trawlers in the North Sea off Scotland, repeatedly machine-gunning their decks and then raining bombs on them, says the “Daily Mail.” The raiders made off when a war-* ship approached. Naval circles in Paris announce that Britain and French naval vessels attacked several U-boats yesterday. . It is impossible to 'say what was the result of the attack's,
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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