HEAVY LOSSES
INFLICTED ON ALLIED CONVOY ACCORDING TO THE BERLIN RADIO. ATTACK BY LUFTWAFFE & U-BOATS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. The Berlin radio, in a special announcement, declared that the Luftwaffe and U-boats since July 2, have attacked a large and strongly escorted British-American convoy of 38 vessels, en route to Archangel. German bombers, the enemy radio adds, sank an American cruiser and nineteen merchantmen, totalling 122,000 tons. U-boats sank nine merchantmen totalling 70,400 tons. The remainder of the convoy was dispersed and is being again attacked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1942, Page 4
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