"CHANNEL COAST ALARMED"
NAZI EXTRAVAGANT CLAIM PLANES FALL LIKE TORCHES Received Aug. 15, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 14. The radio states: “Our airmen today alarmed the entire Channel coast with attacks, British pursuit planes each moment falling like burning torches. Over 20 British planes were shot down over Dover. We lost five planes. Nine balloons were destroyed near Dover.” The High Command repeats a news agency claim that the Germans destroyed 132 planes and adds: ‘'German air squadrons yesterday effectively bombed part of the installations on the quays of Wallsend, Hartlepool, Bournemouth and Plymouth, armament works at Exeter and Bristol, and big tank camps at North Gillingham. We sank two patrol boats and two merchantmen totalling 15,000 tons. Further bombs were droppea on aerodromes at Eastchurch, Detling, Farnborough and Middlewallop, destroying numerous hangars, shelters, oil depots and shipyards and also several grounded planes. We destroyed 74 planes during air combats. A submarine reports the sinking of an auxiliary cruiser. Portions of the German submarine flotilla encountered in the North Sea several British destroyers which withdrew after brief fighting/*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 192, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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