The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-28
British Losing Crete
 By Attacks Of Nazis
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forcements to relieve exhausted Im- perlal troops and there were indi- cations of a long, hard struggle.
 On the sea front, Britain reported that on enemy liner of about 18,000- tons carrying probably 5000 troops to North Africa had been torpedoed and that q French tanker of 5000 tons had been sunk despite an 1tal- ian warship escort, Two other en- emy supply ships of 4,000 and B. 900 tons also were hit and probably sunk, the admiralty said in q statc- ment that confirmed the previously reported sinking of an Italian des- troyer.
 British warsnips and planes were pressing the search in the north Atlantic for the l0,000-ton German cruiser Prinz Eugen, which fled when the Royal Navy closed in Tuesday morning to sink the 35 ,000- ton German battleship Bismarck. There were no definite reports of the progress of the search.
 The German high command an- nounced that Admiral Guenther Luetjens, his officers and crew, es- timated at about 1,400 men, went down with tho Bismarck when the big Nazi dreadnaught was sunk more than 400 miles off Brest.
 At Rome, the Italian nigh conn- mand reported that Axis airplanes, which previously had been credited with destroying % British warcraft around Crete, had bombed British naval units near Tobruk, hitting an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, 0 tor. pedo boat and four steamships. Pre- vious Axis claims in the ai-sea duel had been disputed by Britain, which said only two cruisers and four des- troyers were lost.
 Nazls Gain in Africa
 The Germans also reported Q gain on the North African land front, where the British admitted that Axis forces had again advanced across the Libyan border to tn c Egyptian frontier town of Sollum. The Nazis said their air force had heavily bombed British camps and other military targets but London reports indicated doubt that the Sollum thrust marked the begin ming of big-scale operations.
 Tn the air, the British bombers raided Cologne for the 80th time, reportedly starting big fires in the German Rhineland industrial cen- ter, while other bombers smashed at targets on the French coast.
 Greatest interest, however, center- ed on reaction to President Roose- velts speech, which was viewed as advancing the United States near the limits of undeclared war and providing the ground work for in- creased aid to Britain by declara- ton of national emergency.
 Cologne Is Attacked
 London, May 28. = (UP)-Britisfl planes started big fires in an attack during the night on Cologne, in the German industrial Rhine area and bombed German occupied territory in France, the air ministry said to- day.
 Big bursts were observed on ifn- portant objectives which were un- derstood to include the Hohenzol- Tern bridge across the Rhine, oil re- flneries, munitions factories, rail- road communications and ware- houses.
 The British planes bombed the Boulogne area of the French if- vasion coast and, 1t was said, made 6 particularly successful attack on a German airdrome at Lannion, fin Brittany, destroying several planes
 It was the 80th raid on Cologne.
 Cologne is tho second most bombed city in Germany. Hamrn, q great railroad center 65 miles to the northeast, has been bombed 82 times. Cologne was the target of the last big raid on Germany last Erie day.
 Relays of bombing planes crossed the Strait of Dover from shortly af- ter midnight until just before dawn Boulogne and Calais were believed to be the main targets, windows and doors of buildings on the southeast England coast were shaken by the explosions.
 There was very little German air. plane activity over Great Britain during the night. 4 few bombs were dropped on eastern, southeastern and southern England but the ali and home security ministries said that no eubstantiai damage Wal