The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-02

and seek refuge in the harbor of
Rio De Janeiro. The German cruiser
continued 1t cruise and carried out
its tasks according to plan"
German bomber units yesterday
attacked small conveys and several
individual small ships of the Hum
Der, in st. Georges Channel, and
off Yarmouth, sinking one mer-
chant ship and severely damaging
two merchantmen, one tanker and
one minesweeper, according to the
high command.
Further effective attacks were
carried out against an aircraft fac
tory at Norwich" the high command
said. Bombs dropped from low
altitude hit workshops and caused
big fires and several explosions"
Eigfiht British Planes Lost
The high command said that yes
terday eight British Bristol Blen-
helm bombers raided the Querque-
vile airdrome near Cherbourg and
that all eight were shot down by
German anti-aircraft fire and Ger
man chasers without loss to the
Germans.
(In London the air ministry said
that three British planes had been
lost in the raid of Cherbourg).
1t was claimed also that several
British bombers had been shot down
over Holland.
British planes raided western
Germany against last night the high
command said, but bombs dropped
did not cause military damage. 1t
was admitted, however, that CON
siderable damage was caused to
houses near Cologne, killing and
wounding several civilians"
The communique said that Bril-
tain had lost 10 airplanes yesterday
and that one German plane was
missing.
Papers Accuse Britain
German newspapers charged that
Britain was bombing non-military
detectives in Germany and summed
up German estimates of damage
done to British ports and warshlps
in recent attacks.
The newspapers emphasized first
that Britain will have to pay for
it's bombings and secondly that such
bombing would not break German
morale, but, on the contrary, in
crease German determination to
win the war.
Voelkischer Beobachter official
newspaper organ of the Nazi party.
published on its first page tabula-
tons of German and Italian COM
muniques since the French armlS-
tice June Is.
Results are already visible in the
case of the harborS of London,
Southampton, Hull and Newcastle, y
it said.
British Fleet Divided
Most of the British Mediterran-
can fleet has been sundered into
two parts"
1t listed British losses since the
French armistice as follows: Sunk
1857 OFT tons of merchant shipping,
eight submarines, to cruisers, four
destroyers, one auxiliary cruiser and
one tanker, and in addition three
merchantmen of unknown tom
mage; heavily damaged by torpedo
and bombing attacks = about 70
merchantmen, four battleshipS or
battle cruisers, three aircraft car
riers, seven cruisers, eighty destroy
erS, one submarine, two auxiliary
cruisers, one mine sweeper and six
outpost ships.
At the same time the official news
agency reported that a German
auxiliary cruiser had heavily
damaged" the British cruiser Alcan-
tara in brief fight in the South
Atlantic.
THE British Admiralty previous
ly had reported the battle. 1t said
that the German raider fled under
smoke screen. The Alcantara put
into Rio De Janeiro harbor yester-
day for repairS)
Admit Bombing of Germany
For the first time, the newspapers
this morning gave banner headlines
to a specific British bombing Of
Germany.
They reported a raid over Ham
over early yesterday and asserted
that there was no military objec-
tives "even if one could be seen
from the intense clouds"
The newspapers said two women
and one man were killed, six or
seven persons severely wounded and
nine persons slightly wounded. The
official news agency reported a
bombing raid on Heidelberg early
Tuesday. Bombs fell in a residential
section, it said, and destroyed sew
eral houses and wounded on civil
ian.
German Army On March
Grenoble, France, Aug. 2 - (U.
P) - Troops Of German army OF
occupation are in motion all the
way between the Belgian frontier
and the Spanish border, moving to-
ward the seaports Of northwestern
France opposite England, 1t was UNI
derstood today.
Most OF the German troops who
had crossed the Loire river and &C.
cupied the seaboard as far south as
fiendaye on the Spanish frontier
have been turned northward within
the last two days. They include
two arnlored divisions.
Detachments Of troops have been
left In occupation for such big ports
on the southwest coast as Bayonnc.
81. Jean Deluz. Bordeaux and La
Rochelle. German troops are occu-
plying inland q line which extends