Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-12
ZOO German
Planes In
New Attack
Royal Air Force Fight
ers Are Quick 70 Meet
Challenge of Nazi
Raiders; Britain Cold
to Hoover Proposal.

(By The Associated PrcSS.)
NaZi Warplancs by the hun
notwithstanding i 200-plane ar
mazda in a single thruSt-lashed
with biitzkrcig fury against Eng
balloon barriers, harborS. chan
mel shipping and the great
naval base at Portsmouth.
An unofficial German tally
claimed l64 British planes de-
strOycd in the twO-day assault
which 9pcrcd yesterday with an
intensity limiting that the long
awaited zero hour" may now be
al hand.
Berlin dispatches said record
sized fires were started at Ports
mouth. the base of the British
home fleet. and that the airport
in DOrSctShirc was left in ruins
by concentrated bombing at
tack.
The official GcrIIan news
agency asserted that Hitlcrs air
force had already begun to seize
air neutrality-suspicious. to ac-
tual land invasion i'm other Nazi
c0rqueS:S and that British
royal air planes were no longer
attacking German raiders.
Swift TO accept the challenge, royal
air force defense planes raced out
to sea to meet the naZi aerial armada
and drove back all but SIS of the at
lacking force.
London dispatches said that by
early afternoon AT least H. possibly
l6, German planes were shot down.
The Berlin radio counter claimed
that % royal air force planes were
destroyed in the opening phase of the
days battles.
German planes were reported still
pouring across the channel in appar-
emily growing numbers.
The raiders sniped at barrier bal
looms, strung in protective networks
like mines floating in the air, along
the south English coast Four of the
sky traps were reported shot down
over Dover.
Large scale enemy activity is
taking place over d wide area in the
channel and ThOmaSe estuary" the
British air ministry reported.
The official German news agency
said that the raids INFLICTED new
severe blows" and that the battle was
still under way.
The nazi high command asserted
90 British planes were destroyed in
yesterdays spectacular air fight, with
three others shot down by anti-air-
craft fire. TWcnty-one German
planes we're reported missing The
official British score was 60 Ger
nan planes shot down, and rs Brit
iSh craft
More than 100 planes clashcd in
this mornings first sky battle, stag
ed over the English channel and the
hills Of the southeast coast.
Droning through the sunrise haze
at an altitude Of 10000 feet, the naZi
bombcrs and Messcrchmidt fighters
were intercepted by British planes.
Royal all force SpitfireS knitted down
to break up the MesscrSchmittS,
WHICH dl''i'IIJlcu W hCcl llyllS I'll
clcy" formations TO protect each
other.
An eye witness said one nazi plane
made FLAMING torch" as it plunged
into the sea.
In the new raids over Britain to-
day, naZ war planes attacked air
plane factories, ports and oil depots,
he German high command reported.
In London. spokesman indicated
in the absence Of official comment
that Britain would be adverse to
of former President Herbert
Hoover that the United States sup
ply food to Holland, Belgium, and
Norway.
The spokesman said that Britain
would vigorously maintain its block
ide against Germany and naZi-Oc-
:upiCd European states, and that food
or 100000 nor-Germans in the
occupied territories depended on
fair distribution by Germany, which
las an abundance Of supplies.