GERMAN CONVOY ATTACKED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 169, 21 July 1941, Page 6

GERMAN CONVOY ATTACKED

FOUR SHIPS PROBABLY SUNK: K.A.F. ACTION OFF DLTCH COAST (Recd. 6.30 p.m. • Rugby, July 19Another notable success in the R.A.F.’s offensive against German communications and supplies was scored to-day, when Blenheims of the Bomber Command carried out what is officially described as a very successful attack on an enemy convoy, qscorted by anti-aircraft ships, off the Dutch coast. Four ships of the. convoy were probably destroyed. Three of them, each of about 6000 tons, were set fire. The fourth, of about 4000 tons, blev up after being hit aslera. A further communique : tales: “Heavy bombers, escorted by lighters, bombed docks in Dunkirk this afternoon. Four enemy lighters were destroved b\ the escort. “From all these operations Ihn-“ of o ', bombers and hvo lighters arc missing “An enemy convoy off the Lui ch qoa&c was so heavily escorted by flak

ships that they almost equalled the number of vessels they escorted. The fact that the convoy, nevertheless, was broken up and four of the largest vessels probably sunk is a tribute to the courage and daring with which the attack was delivered. The vessel which blew up received at least four direct hits. A Blenheim, which hit one of the others, approached almost at sea-level, through violent anti-aircraft fire.”—B.O.W.