BOMBS ON EIRE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21203, 28 August 1940, Page 5

BOMBS ON EIRE

SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED MANY HOUSES DAMAGED ACCIDENT TO TROOPS (United Pre-ss Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-ht) DUBLIN, August 26 At least 10 bombs were dropped in Wexford by the German bomber. Many houses were damaged and numbers of people were injured by glass and splinters. Spectators thought the aeroplane was about to make a forced landing when a bomb suddenly fell. The manager of the creamery said some members of the staff watched the aeroplane, which appeared to be foreign. One of the girls who was killed was found sitting at a table with a knife and fork in her hands. Four bombs fell, and one which failed to explode bore German markings. Another smashed the pipeline to the creamery, a third damaged a railway siding, and the fourth fell near a hotel.

A lorry taking troops to the scene this morning overturned, and nine men were taken to hospital. One of them subsequently died, and three others are in a serious condition.

NAZIS DENY KNOWLEDGE (United Pre-ss Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 28, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, August 27 Military circles declared that nothing is known of the bombing of Eire on August 26. FRANCE ACCUSED CRITICISM BY EX-MINISTER ONLY HALF PLANES USED (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 27 The former French Air IvTinister, M. Pierre Cot, in a broadcast frofn New York last night, accused the French General Staff of refusing to recognise the value of tanks and air power. Less than a half of France’s 3000 first-line aeroplanes, he alleged, had been sent into battle. BRITISH INDUSTRIES STATEMENT BY GERMANY “DESTRUCTION BEGINNING” DAMAGE TO FACTORIES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) ' BERLIN, August 27 The German authorities declare the preliminary bombing has been completed and the detailed destruction of the British war industries is beginning. The Berlin news agency stated that 70 Junkers machines dropped a ton of bombs on factories at Birmingham ! on Sunday night. “Air battles occurred on Monday over Deal, Folkestone, Canterbury and Cambridge,” says the agency. “British losses in these battles are five times the German, compared with the previous four times.” NAZI PROPAGANDA SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 26 Realising the necessity of showing some immediate result, howevei ' slight, of the loudly-proclaimed imposition of the total blockade on ' Britain, the German propaganda ma- ■ chine has made a surprising an- I nouncement from Bremen in English ‘ that the British tanker San Fernando and the freighter Zarian have been lost. The facts are that the San Fern- j ando was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in June, and a claim was made to this effect by the German High Command on July 8. The Zarian was attacked, but not sunk, early in July, and is safe in a British port.