British Warships Now Scouring Sea for Lone Raider; Reich Orders Further Bombings London, Oct. 12. op yesterday's communique, details were given of the enemy's unsuccessful bombing attack on a British destroyer in the North Sea on October 9, says an Admiralty communique issued here last night, ight.
"An attack delivered the same day on a cruiser squadron," it continues, "was reported, but apart from the fact, now confirmed, that no ship was hit and no casualties were sus~ tained, details were then lacking.
'A further account from the cruiser squadron has now' been received.
It reports that the enemy's attack was as prolonged it, was unsuccessful. The German attack," the communique adds, "continued for more than five hours, and more than 100 bombs were dropped. Of these, tone salvo fell near enough to throw a few splinters on to a British cruiser, Others fell wide, sometimes a mile wide."—Reuter.
London, Oct. 11. "In the past fortnight Great Britain has taken 18,615 tons of enemy ship-by U-boat action 5,809) Balance in our favour Close Anglo-Polish Relations In giving this information at question time in the House of Commons today, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that there ad been no further losses since JOctober 9.
In the past sixteen days, he added, 59,000 tons of new merchant shipping, [prepared for such an emergency, had come into the water.
Therefore, Mr. Churchill. said, the jecuntry was $8,000 tons better~ off ian when he made lis last statement Reuter.
London, Oct, 12
The Polish Foreign Minister, M. August Zaleski, arrived here yester-ay on a three-day visit in order to discuss with Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, and Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, Allied war views avd the future conduct of the Among thave who met M. Zales at the aerodrome were the Polish Ambassador, Count Raczynski, and Mr, Oliver Harvey, representing Lord Halifax.
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