The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

retaliatory British raids over Ger man-eld territory.
 There virtually was no let up in the German air attack. It continued through the night with raids con- centrated in Wales and southwest and northeast Britain-areaS little affected by the daylight attacks. Other bombers raided Scotland.
 Mass Attacks Resumed
 With daylight, mass attacks on coastal points were renewed. A flight of 50 German bombers dropped 80 bombs on a Thames Estuary town. In another battle 100 German raid- CTS, including 35 Dorniers, attacked the southeast coast. The British re- ported of these planes were shot down.
 Report followed report of German action. In one southeast area 200 bombs were dropped and several casualties caused Another attack hit northeast British point. At an- other point eight German airmen who bailed out of their crashing planes by parachute were captured.
 By mid-morning reports indicated that more than 10 German planes had been shot down.
 From Berlin came a running ac- count of the action. German in- formants claimed that one German air armada attacked and smashed the famous Dover balloon barrage early today.
 Battle Over Chalk Cliffs
 A big battle was said to have been fought against British defend- ing fighter planes high over the his- toric chalk cliffs. In the battle some 16 British planes were ac- counted for, the official DNB news agency asserted and "the Germans won control of the air over Dover"
 "Today's raids, "said 8 German source, appear to be the heaviest thus far. Greater news is to be eX- pected in the course of the day"
 Other German attack squadrons blasted air bases around the great naval harbor of Portsmouth, ancient bastion of British sea power. Some IA British planes and five German planes were said by the Nazis to have been shot down in these en- counters. ...-
 The high command in a com- munique on yesterdays action em- phasiZed the severity of the raid on Portsmouth. It claimed that power plant was set afire and that docks and wharves were severely hit.
 Germans Admit Attack
 The German high command ad- mitted that long range British bombers struck back at German ob- jectives during the night but claim ed that no damage of military con- sequence was done. The British lost four planes in their attacks on Ger many, the high command contend ed.
 In today's attacks on Dover two British patrol boats off Goodwin Sands were said to have been sunk when they opened up on raiding German planes and four more ball. looms of the famous barrage were said to have been blasted.
 The British reported that an aver age of 27 German planes a day have been lost in the past seven days fighting. They placed German losses since June IS up to last midnight at 453 planes.
 Reporting on shipping losses of the week ended August London said 75,124 tons was sunk including 13 British vessels of 60,058 tons. The British pointed out that losses were only about one-quarter of those claimed to have been inflicted by Germany.
 A new flare-up in the troubled Far East was reported from Shang- hai. Admiral Thomas c. Hart, U. s. Commander of Far Eastern naval forces, was speeding to Shanghai for a conference with the Japanese on a U. s. proposal that Americans take over the major portion of the British defense sector in the Inter- national settlement. The Japanese desire to take over the sector them- selves.
 Rome reported that Adadleh had been occupied in British Somaliland about 40 miles south of the import ant port of Berbera toward which an Italian column is moving. Fight ing with strong British forces was said to have started at l p. m. Sun day and presumably was still con- tinuing.
 Australia suffered serious de- fense loss when cabinet ministers concerned with war conduct and the chief of the Australian general staff were killed in plane crash.
 Russia announced that political commissars have been dropped from the Red army set-up At the same time Moscow newspapers came out strongly in support of Bulgarian demands against Rumania for southern Dobrudja.
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