Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-05
6 British Desfroyers
Sunk by Sea Forces,
Nazi Command Says
German Planes Strike
Back for Killing of
Score in Night Roids
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. Silk British de-
stroyers have been sunk recently by
U-boat and torpedo boat flotillas,
the high command said today, as
Adolf Hitler's Voekischer Beo-
bachter, bellwether of the German
press, declared Britain'S acquisition
of so United States destroyers might
be used only to cover the eventual
glorious retreat" to America.
The high rate of destruction of
Britain'S smaller warShipS was en-
phasized by the high command as
German planes striking back at the
British, whose bombs killed score
of persons in raids last night on
Berlin and other parts of Ger
many, were reported centering day
attacks on airports in the suburbs
of London.
A special cOmmunique said a de-
stroyer of the Imogen class Q,37O
tons) was sunk by torpedo boat
fiotilla in an attack yesterday on
British convoy from which $4,000
tons of shipping were shot.
Fires Started in Britain.
The regular communique said
three more destroyers, the Esk and
Express of the 1,375-ton Eclipse
class and the Ivanhoe of the $780,
ton Intrepid class, had been newly
sunk by German submarines, which
also took a toll of $1,000 tons of
merchant shipping from one
strongly protected" convoy. These
were besides two destroyers which
were reported sunk by German sub
marines September 2"
The British Admiralty an
nounced that two destroyers, the
Ivanhoe and Esk, had been sunk
by torpedoes and mines and that
a third, the Express, had been
damaged.
britain has announced the
loss of 80 deStroyerS in the war,
but with requirements and the
addition of so destroyers she
acquired in naval ase-destroy-
err trade with the United States is
believed by observers to have 200
or more available for use in con-
scattered empireD
The high commands communique
said numerous fires" were started
at Britain'S ports, air bases and in
dustrial centers-Liverpool, Swan
sea, Bristol, Weymouth, Poole, Chat
ham, Tilbury, Great Yarmouth and
Hull-in night raids, while an air.
plane motor factory at Rochester,
plane factory at Weybridge, NUM-
tions dumps and hangers were hit in
day raids.
Attack Resumed Today.
Good weather, the first reported
here in weeks, permitted numerous
German battle planes to resume the
attack this morning, with Biggin
Hill and Henley, London suburban
airports, as the objectives.
German air raiders who returned
to their home bases after forenoon
raids on Southeastern England to-
day reported they shot down 20
British planes in numerous air bat
ties. Five German planes are miss
ing. informed sources said.
Eighteen civilians were killed by
a British bomb in a Northern Ger
man town last night, the high COM
mand announced, and two men
the Berlin area.
The 18 German civilians were
killed when a bomb dropped on
workers quarters while the victims
were outside a shelter, the high
command reported.
In the Berlin raid bombs damaged
an electrical plant and warehouse
where army equipment was stored.
A policeman was killed when
bomb dropped in the famous Tier
garten Park in Berlin and another
man was killed by a bomb which
damaged aparl ment houses in a
community south of the city.
Electrical Works Hit.
At the electrical works in the
suburb of Spandau, 9 miles west of
the heart of Berlin, two bombs
struck without causing extensive
damage" an official announcement
said. Foreign correspondents who
viewed the scene were told opera
One missile plunged through the
roof of a building still under con-
struction and as yet unused, while
the other hit the ground near the
plant, the conclusion shattering sew
eral hundred window panes.
Authorized sources declared only
two British planes penetrated the
Berlin defenses, and one of these
was shot down outside the city.
Most of the British raiders which
entered Germany were turned back
for the second successive night by
anti-aircraft fire and Nazi chaser
planes, they said. These sources
asserted the British succeeded, how
ever, in dropping incendiary bombs
on various parts of the Reich.
They said several persons were in
jured by a British attack on the
noted health resort of Kissingen, in
Bavaria.
(The German wireless broad
cast report that British bombs
struck and set fire to an apart
ment house at Kissingen)
Adolf Hitler's Sport Palace address
yesterday in which he reiterated his
determination to crush Britain and
threatened to "erase" English cities
to avenge the British night raids
absorbed attention of all Germans.
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