The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-09
LINER CARINTHIA
SUNK BY U-B0AT
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auxiliary cruiser had been sunk off
the northwest coast of Ireland.
The Carinthia was the second
British armed merchant cruiser sunk
since the war started. The Rawal-
pindi, 1857 tons, was lost last Nov.
% with $50 of her personnel after
an attack by the German pocket
battleship Deutschland off Ireland.
Earlier an official admiralty state
ment had observed that "the bal
ance of naval strength in favor of
the Allies is now far greater than
at the outset of the war"
On the other side of the book,
the British marked down new bomb
ing success in the air: An attack on
German troop concentrations at
Abbeville throughout Friday and
Friday night and on military OBJ
jectives" in northwest Germany.
MANY reconnaissance were car
ried out and on the information OBJ
tanned a large number of bombing
sorties were undertaken" the air
ministry communique said. Lines
Of communication, ammunition and
petrol dumps, troop concentrations
and columns of armored fighting
vehicles were repeatedly attacked"
II Nazis DOwned
The Royal Air Force destroyed II
German planes yesterday, the COM
munique said, while 10 British planes
were missing.
Much damage was caused to the
railhead at Hirson where woods We're
set on fire and many explosions
caused" the communique said.
Here troop concentrations were
machine gunned. At Abbeville many
explosions and fires were caused
and extensive damage was done to
the airdrome 49,"
Reports of Saturdays operations,
it added, indicate chat our medium
bombers inflicted heavy damage on
the enemy's motorized forces"
In a supplementary statement, the
air ministry said German troop con-
c%entrations and mechanical columns
in the immediate real of the battle
front between LIE Treport, a chan
mel port, and Amiens were SUBJ
inofnI fo r-ornnfnI otto lie NJ el~
intervals by waves Of aircraft.
Road and rail communications in
back areas were Systematically
bombed and towns and villages in
which troops were massing were
wrecked and set ablaze,' the state
ment continued.
"At Araines . . which the enemy
had converted into a vast military
encampment, over 800 high explo-
sive and incendiary bombs were
dropped within the period of three
minutes"
1t claimed direct hits in the GEN.
ter Of Vismes, and destruction of
houses to block strategic roads near
Miannay.
One British plane, it said, after
bombing a small ammunition dump
northeast of the river Bresle, flew
at a level of 100 feet to machine
gun an anti-aircraft gun and crew
out of action.
The air ministry said one bomber,
attacked by three Messerschmitt
1925 had SKINNED the housetops
of scattered villages as he made
for the coast" shooting down nj
of the pursuers in flight. The others
gave up the chase at the coast.
Has Not Resigned
The war office, incidentally, de-
MED today a report that the Duke
Of Windsor had resigned, and an
nounced that he a visiting French
troops on the italian border and
would shortly return to his head
quarters. Before he went to the
south-the Duchess of Windsor is
at Cap D'Antibes-the Duke was
liaison officer between the British
and French armies.
The statement on Allied naval
strength said that the navy had
been increased since the beginning
of the war by the addition Of more
than so armed merchant cruisers
and more than 1900 minor war yes
sells and auxiliary craft "of which
So have been lost"