The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
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underestimation," Sincsair said.
 Planes listed in pilots reports or by ground observers as probably de- stroyed or seriously damaged in fighting, Sinclair said, were never counted in the public cmomuniques.
 Beare said the Germans now are at a real disadvantage because 1t is too late for them to train pilots for night bombing raids over England. Exhausts of training planes would be seen and unarmed trainees face destruction, he said. England solved this problem by numerous flights over Germany before serious war fare began.
 Graveyard of Planes
 Reporters today visited Q grave yard" of German planes shot down over Britain in recent fighting on the outskirts of London. Airplane parts were piled 12 feet high and covered an area O. 20 acres. In one special pile were the tails of 87 Messerschmitts, in another large number of Junkers cockpits.
 Workmen were demolishing these wrecks and classifying the parts &C., cording to construction materials. They will be melted down or re- paired and used in building British Spitfires and Hurricanes, author1- ties sad.
 The Germans claimed that yes- terday in a day of small-scale air activity devoted to armed recon naissance and attacks on picked ob- jectives important damage was done to British defense works.
 Bombers, Berlin said, attacked a munitions factory at Aldeburgh, a railroad yard at Southwold, har- Dor works and a warship at Great Yarmouth, airdromes at Cambridge, Eastchurch, Mansion and Deal, railroads at Lowestoft and Exeter and sunk a 12,000 ton merchant ship off Ireland.
 Both Give Figures
 Berlin gave the days air score at IA British planes downed and three German planes lost.
 Britain reported a quiet nght in which few German planes were over the country but persistent attacks were made after dawn in the mid lands and southeast areas.
 British figures claimed that ITO German planes had been downec since August 8 with loss of at least 1,50O trained German airmen compared with 192 British planes downed with les sthan 300 airmen missing.
 Churchill,s address was hailed in London papers. Only one feature appeared to stir controversey. This was the proposal to lease defense bases in the western hemisphere to the United States for 99years. Some conservative members of parliament desire to cut the lease term to IS or 21 years.
 It was revealed in London that the Duke of Buccleuch, one of Scot lands richest and most important peers, was removed from office as Lord Steward of the royal household last may during the drive against fifth columnists.
 War was striking close to Ireland for the first time aS the result of German air activity. The steamer, St. Patrick, was attacked for the second time in three days by Ger man planes in St. Georges channel. Three planes attacked the St. Pat. rick but no casualties are damage was caused.
 Attacked by Nazis
 Previously, the 40O-ton steamer Rose Marie arrived at Waterford af- ter being attacked by German planes and German plane crashed in County Kerry and its crew of six were interned.
 Tension continued between Greece and Italy. Greek experts reported that examination of the torpedo which sank the Greek cruiser Helle indicated it was Italian. On the Albanian frontier, Mrs. Daut Hoggia, widow of a slain Albanian natoinal- ist to whose killing the current ten sion is attributed, claimed that her husband was killed by Greek bor- der organization.
 Italy reported that the British had bombed Mega, Gelig and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia by air.
 Italy warned shipping of danger in zones of operations in the Medi- terranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Alden and the coasts of Egypt and Bri. tain'S African possessions.