Evening star., 1940-03-29
Belgian Batteries j.
Fire on Several
Foreign Planes
Damage in Air Attack
On British North SEQ
Convoy Disputed
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Aerial activity was continued last
night and today by Europe's bel
ligerents with Belgian anti aircraft
guns firing at several unidentified
foreign planes which flew over Bel
gian soil south of Brussels at a great
height.
The flight over Belgium today fol-
lowed bombing of a British North
Sea convoy last night by German
aircraft. The amount of damage
was disputed. The German high
command communique today said
one patrol boat was sunk and hits
were scored on six large merchant
ships. The British denied any
damage was caused. The Germans
said all planes returned safely.
Attack on Destroyer.
An announcement by DNB Ger.
man ofncial news agency earlier
today said the German flyers also
attacked q French destroyer In the
English Channel, as well as the
convoy.
German planes yesterday car
ried out extensive reconnaissance
flights" over the North Sea. Great
Britain and France, ranging as far
as the Orkneys and the Shetland
Islands, DNB said.
The German news agency also
said that British pursuit planes shot
down q German reconnaissance
plane on Scotland's north coast yes
terday, while another failed to re-
turn from flight over France.
Reuters British news agency re-
ported from Oslo that owners of the
3,2OO-ton Norwegian steamer Bureos
had been informed that the vessel
was sunk yesterday of the English
east coast. 1t said the crew of 80
was saved.
Ihe Aberdeen trawler Inverneill
reported today that she had fought
on a German plane which dropped
several bombs and en- aerial torpedo
near her last night without scoring
a direct hit. Her first mate was
wounded.
Artillery Fire Heavy.
German artillery fire on the west
ern front was particularly heavy
yesterday between the Saar River
and the Vosges Mountains in an ap-
parent attempt to destroy certain
key French posts. the French COM
mand reported in Paris.
French batteries replied vigorous
ly, the French said.
A snowfall hampered aviation ac-
tivlty. the high command stated. but
the Germans sent three reconnais-
sance flights over France, one
Dornler plane crashing and killing
its crew in an accident of undeter-
mined cause.
A division of Scottish Highlanders
was disclosed in military dispatches
10 Paris to have taken over another
sector OF the western front, relieving
French soldiers. Correspondents
with the British Expeditionary Force
IN France reported Tuesday that
British troop then took over a new
sector from the French.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar r
LudloW-Hewitt, who organized the
spectacular British air raid on the
German island of Sylt last week,
was promoted to inspector general
OF the Royal Air Force.
British Subs Credited.
Oficial credit for the sinking OF
the Nazi freighter Heddernheim
March % was given today to the
British submarine Ursula.
The Heddernheim, first German
merchantman torpedoed by a Brit
lsh submarine since the start of the
war, went down off the coast OF
Denmark
The sinking of the Edmund Hugo
SHINES, Sunday off the west coast
OF Denmark after an attack the pre-
ceding night, was credited to the
submarine Truant.
1t also was announced that the
British submarine Unity rescued
eight survivors of the Netherlands
trawler Protinus which was bombed
and sunk by German plane.