Evening star., 1940-08-09
Naziis Resume
Plane Attacks
On England
New Report Places
Reich Loss at so
In Channel Bottle
BY the Associated Press.

with loss of at least go planes for
wholesale aerial assaults
on British shores and shipping, the
Air Ministry reported today, as
Nazi air attacks continued.
In all, the Ministry said, so Ger
man planes were destroyed land
many others damaged"-a toll OF
about one in seven of some 400"
Nazi raiders it counted in the raids
the greatest attack in British his
tory.
A loss of 16 British planes was
acknowledged, but the Air Min
istry said three pilots previously
counted as missing now are reported
safe, two of them wounded.
(The German high command
asserted that British losses were
49 planes shot down near the Isle
of Wight in the English Channel
and of the port of Dover. Ger
man losses, it said, were only 10
planes shot down and two which
had to make forced landings.)
Sinkings Multiplied by Three.
An authoritative source said the
German communique, reporting IL
merchant ships totaling $1,000 tons
sunk in the forays, multiplied by
three" the British losses.
Contrary to the German report,
this source said, the attacked con-
voy contained no tanker nor, in
deed, any ship approaching the ton-
mage figures for single ships given
in the German claim" mentioned
an 8,000-ton tanker and two steam
ers of 5000 and 1000 tons.
Two German bombers were shot
down today, one by anti-aircraft fire
after it had bombed a northeast
coastal town and the other by three
Spitfires off the northeast coast.
Three of the crew of the second Nazi
plane were captured in a rubber
boat.
Although the intensity of the at
tacks apparently had slackened, the
Air Ministry reported scattered raids
throughout last night and today.
It disclosed there had been some
damage to property and some cas-
ualties, one Of which was fatal" in
Southwest England.
Casualties Few"
Renewed bombardments of the
Strait Of Dover. the Bristol Channel,
Northwest England and the Mid
lands also caused some damage and
killed some" persons. Casualties,
however, were said to have been
few"
Seven persons were reported killed
and IL injured in collapse of part Of
factory in the northwest. The
building was surrounded by a mill
tary guard after the accident.
A grim order by the government to
Britons to "stay put" lest they be
killed was underscored by yesterdays
day-long attack in which unofficial
tallies reported that 800 Nazi planes
roared over the Channel and inland
In waves of about 80 planes each.
One attack formation included $50
planes, bombers and fighters.
Press Warns Of Mass Raids.
The press warned that the Ger
mans now may stage raids of 500
planes at a time and the public was
told to stay where you are" in a
leaf1et published by the Ministry of
Information and tucked under the
doors of millions of homes in the
United Kingdom today.
Yesterdays assault was the great
est ever leveled against this island
seat of empire. At least 100 Ger
men airmen met death, 1t was
claimed.
Last night British airmen were
believed to have struck back. Ten
German-controlled radio stations
went silent, indicating they were
shut down so as not to guide the
Britons. They were the stations al
Stuttgart, Brussels, Cologne, Hilver-
sum, Leipzig, Berlin, Strasbourg
Frankfort, Saarbrucken and Ham
burg.
The Ministry of Information
warning to the public to stay put
capped a five-day campaign de-
signed to prepare Britons for mass
aerial bombardment, if not actua,
invasion.
The government is represented
as content with the navys ceaseless
patrol, Royal Air Force forays ovel
the continental coastline and the
army's stand to" at the dangerou.
hours of dawn and dusk. The fight.
ing services are secure against sur.
prise, it is held.
To prepare the man in the street
Prime Minister Churchill himself
opened the campaign Sunday by
warning against "the slightest re.
(See BRITISH, Page A-4.)