The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-01
NEW EXPLOSIVE BRITISH BOMBS
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(Continued from Page D The bombers then flew over the Terschelling and Ameiand islands, bombing and machine e-gunning gun emplacements and German troops on parade, inflicting heavy casual ties among them, the air ministry said.
 Another flight of British bombers scored a direct hit on Q German supply ship which was in convoy of eight ships protected by warships and fighting planes, the ministry said.
 Two British bombers were missing after Mondays attacks, 1t said.
 At Bremen, informants said, bombing was centered on the yards where surface warships and sub- marines were under construction, on the Deutsche Vacuum oil re- flneries, the Fockwulfe airplane fac- tory, on railways and warehouses along the waterfront, and on rice and starch mills.
 It was announced that Emden also was attacked for the 37th time, and informants said that although the raids were not on @ large scale, they made g good show," indicat- ing that they were successful. They were first raids on Germany since Cologne and Dusseldoorf were at- tackled last Thursday night.
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 British bompers also were seen passing over teh southern coast, ap- parently headed for Brest to renew the previous nights attacks on the harbor where the German battle- ships Schwarnhorst and Gneisenau were tied up. It was pointed out that the planes might be doing only reconnaissance work, however, to acertain whether the battleships had been moved.
 A northeast England coast of the German attacks last night. An air ministry home security ministry communique said there were num- Der of casualties and considerable damage to the town.
 Though not of long duration or of large scale, the raid was sharp" the communique. Bombs dropped elsewhere near the east coast caused little damage and a small number of casualties. Also, there were a small number of isolated incidents in south and southwest England and South Wales. Some damage was done but casualties were few"
 It was reported that bombs had damaged @ wing of an infirmary at northeast coest town but had caused no casualties.
 (The official German news agency at Berlin said German raiders at- tackled Great Yarmouth last night, causing large fires and that other attacks were made against an ifn- portant harbor city on the east coast.)
 British Ship Losses
 London, April - (U.P) - Brit ish shipping losses during the week which ended at midnight, March 20, were 59,l41 tons, the lowest since the spring sea blitzkrieg began, 1t was announced today.
 During the week, 10 British ships totaling 24,940 tons, six allied ves- sells aggregating 27,528 tons and one neutral ship of 6,672 tons were lost.
 During the four weeks ending March g British, Allied and Neu- tral shipping losses totaled 393, ,689 tons. For the entire war the figure now stands at 5,214,632 tons. In a supplemental communique the Ad- miralty amended its figures for the week which ended March. Losses for that week were raised to 94,402 tons from the previously announced fig- ure of 7i,773 tons.
 Germany claimed that in the week of March g she had sunk 387,000 tons of shipping and Italy claimed to have destroyed 10000 tons of shipping.
 There has been a steady decline in shipping lost since the first week of the intensified war on British shipping with submarines, surface raiders, and bombing planes. During the week ended, March 2, 14l,3l4 tons were lost. During the week ended March 9, the loss was 98,832 tons which declined to 94,402 tons during the week ended March 16.
 British quarters said Britain seemed to be gaining in the battle of the Ttlantic" in view of the grad- ual diminution. Germany has been using all of her resources to pre- vent ships carrying United States war supplies and food, reaching Britain, even two 2s,ooo ton battle- ships.