UNARMED TRAWLERS
LATEST NAZI VICTIMS Received Dec. 20. 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. A German bomber flying over Ihe North Shetlands, attacked six unarmed trawlers. One reached an island. Two were dead and two wounded. The total attacked since December 17 is 26.
warships has shaken the German confidence is to be expected, and authoritative London circles believe that the grossly exaggerated claims by the German. Government, which more than reveals the true story of yesterday s air battle, represent an attempt to counteract the impression made on the German public by the loss of the Admiral Graf Spee. News of this could not be suppressed or minimised as in the less universally known German defeats. The same interpretation is put on the German story of an air battle of the Sylt yesterday, which, in fact, never took place, although it is true unmolested Royal Air Force patrols over that, and the south Friesian islands were almost continuously carried out on Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, and Saturday of last week. These patrols, it seems, had the effect of keeping German seaplanes fixed to their base, because since they began no enemy seaplane has approached the British coast Whatever the f-uture may hold it is beyond dispute that the British sea patrols art' gaining valuable experience which will be put to good use.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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221UNARMED TRAWLERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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