The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-21
NAN WARPLANES
LAUNCH ATTACKS
Continued From Page One)

:, +beir own nlSnL lOIdyS over
' ,on territory Friday, striking
- and naval bases along the
d If Germany and Nazi-held
uErond-potential jumping off
rOD for invasion of England-and
polaIs Nazi aircraft factories,
a1Sr o1ants and railroad communi-
ca .lons, in English southeast
ohipp o+tTacted the heaviest Nazl
porl sts today. Seventeen p a e s
attaeha bomb racks on ships in
empI lohtning raid but apparently
r,issed their mark;
mIsS mother, the British broke up
mtndron of more than a score
a a s German dive-bombers accom-
o OIL bv fighter planes after a
e p half-hour battle.
hei'' Straight Into Sea
nm German plane was seen to
wv straight into the sea and
ILLNESSES said they believed at
ey. three others also were shot
down. ,aa r,oko r,o
.on, the sea as the Nazi bombers
ni''ad time after time at a group
british ships before the British
eab4ers swept in with a blaze of
%machine-gun fire.
Elsewhere, German planes were
u;,-on hattie over southwest Eng
End Wales and Southeast Scot
land.
Cir Alan-one of the Northern Ire
Ind family of fighting Brookes'
Mren]aces Sir Edmund Ironside as
commander-in-chief of home for
ces Viscount Gort, who led t h e
british expeditionary force in
France, now is inspector-general to
The forces for training. q
Neutral military observers re-
earded the selection of Sir Alan,
who also fought with the B.E.F.,
ss fresh evidence of a British Shift
from stright defense to a balance
between defensive and offensive
nlans - aimed at wrestling initia-
five from the Nazis and, Ultimate
", winning the war on the CONT
nent.
Promotion" of Sir Edmund
1ronside to the rank of field mar
shall was not commented on in
military circles. His star has been
waning.
Military circles, however, were
quick to dispute any suggestion
that Lord Gort also had been kisk-
ed upstairs.
Perhaps Four Million
we expect to have perhaps four
million men under arms by fall"
thew declared. There is no great
er expert in training men t a n
Gort."
Brooke, a specialist in gunnery
and mechanization, has been an
answering advocate of more and
more mobility for combat troops.
Both he and Gort, military cir
cles point out, can apply the les
sons learned in Flanders and
France to their new posts.
With the 1907 class registering
today, Britain enrolled the third
group called to the colors tn S
month. When youths who reached
the age of 20 since June % and
the class of 1906 register next Sat
urday, it is expected that Britain's
army strength will reach 1000, 900
men.
1t was officially announced that
Sl2,64l registered in the 1907 class.
Applying the communique on
Fridays night air action by the
R.A.F., the air ministry said the
Focke-Wolfe airplane factories at
Bremen had been damaged in an
attack which lasted an hour and
a half.
Dornier plane factories at Wis
mar and Wenzendorf were set
afire; the Wilhelmshaven docks
were bombed and the main rsil
line south of Reckinghausen, mani
featuring and mining town in Wet
phala, was cut.
100 Planes in Air
In today's second air battle over
the channel, it was estimated
nearly 100 planes were in the air,
and that more than so German
bombs were dropped. Shell splint-
efs fell in the streets of a channel
Town, without causing any casual
ties.
Shore batteries as we'll as guns
OF British warships took part in
me light. The bonbels attempted
unsuccessfully to put he warships
ou1 OF action to bre..k their bar
rage.
Inc British, in T.eir tabulations
VI me months casualties, placed
We number of planes lost by the
aernans at 100 with 40 to so 9TH
rns 50 badly damaged it was I'M
.Aely that they would be able to
reach home.
Inc British calimed So German
plaiies were shot down in the past
week.