The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-02

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 Germany Is Blasted
 The British air ministry reported today that royal air force planes in the past 24 hours smashed again at Nazi naval shipbuilding yards at Wilhelmshaven in the course of widespread raids that included at- tacks on objectives in Norway, Den mark and occupied France.
 The ministry said that all planes engaged in the attack upon Will helmshaven returned safely.
 Coastal command planes bombed the German submarine base at Lo- rient and the docks at Brest. Amer ican-built Hudsca II0ekheeds attack ed the harbor WorGs v. KristainSand, Norway, and other British aircraft blasted the gas works at Esbjerg, Denmark, causing a big explosion.
 American-built Hudson airplanes attacked the German-held Norwe- gian port of Kristiansand on Sunday, the British air ministry said today, and heavily bombed military targets.
 Diving from the clouds, one pilot said, the planes dropped bombs across the middle of a cluster of army huts "diSlocating the Sunday dinner arrangements" and then flew on to a town where Hong black building" believed to be storehouse on the Quay was attacked. T
 The bombs fell nicely spaced along the full length of the shed" the pilot reported, "and are believed to have caused considerable dam age"
 The British admiralty today re- ported the loss of the destroyer Sturdy, 905-tons, the 33rd British de- stroyer admitted lost since start of the war.
 The Sturdy is a small destroyer built under the World War 1918-19 program. It carried a normal con- plement of 98 men.
 Most of the destroyers of this class had been sold by the British prior to the outbreak of war. The re- mainder of the destroyers in the class had been designated for Serv- ice in the Far East.
 German Ace Lost
 Mai. Helmuth Wick, commander of the Richtofen squadron, who shot down his 57th plane in his last air battle, has failed to return from raid over Great Britain.
 Twenty-Five years old, Wick was Germany's No. air hero. A friend who witnessed his last battle said 1t took place over the English Channel.
 A group of German fighters criss- crossed the channel seeking British planes, the friend said. Wick and he paired off and engaged in dog battles with British hurricanes and spitfires near the Isle of Wight. Wick shot down a plane, then a British plane got on the tail of his plane and fired repeated volleys into it.
 Wick bailed out and parachuted toward the channel. His comrade pursued Wick's attacker "in cold rage" and shot him down, then re- turned to his base and reported his chiefs disappearance.
 Rescue planes and boats were dis patched to look for Wick but failed to find him although "all hope has not yet been given up."
 One Sub Each Day
 Employing mass production meth ods, Germany is producing 8 sub- marine a day, the Turin Newspaper La Stampa reported today. It said Britain unwittingly was responsible for training Nazi engineers to achieve ths production.
 This training, the newspaper said, was received in a British financed submarine factory in Holland after the last war.
 La Stampa also revealed that Ger man underSea craft are equipped with special apparatus to release quantity of oil when the submarine is attacked and make it appear the U-boat has been sunk.
 Most of Germany's present sub- marine experts, the newspaper said, were trained in huge experimental factory opened in Holland by the British after the World War. When Hitler came to power, La Stampa said, the German technicians re- turned to the fatherland.
 During the World War, the time necessary for building submarine was 18 months, but today everything is built in mass production and nine months is the maximum time necessary" La Stampa reported.
 German production has been re- doubled by acquisition of Dutch, Belgian and French shipyards and hence Germany today produces at least, one submarine per day"
 Italy's New Plane
 The Milan newspaper Corriere Della Sera said today that Italy's new mystery plane" was operated by compressed gas and did not have either a motor or propeller.
 The plane, which was tested by the famous racing pilot Col. Mario De Bernardi, was described as revo- lutionizing stratosphere flights.
 "The airplane was invented by an engineer, Campini, and built in one of our establishments" the news paper said. Tt is entirely metal and identical with other p:anes as far as the wings and form are concern ed. It has internal aereation and is run on highly compressed gas.
 "The test by Colonel De Bernardi constitutes a gigantic help toward stratosphere flights, it offers new horizons for war action by air.