The Archive · 1939

Effective Defence

London, Sept, 20, It was officially revealed "today that the German bombers which attacked @ British naval squadron In the North Sea on Tuesday was able to take advantage of low-lying clouds to dive over the British battleships.

Other aircraft flew at a height of about 12,000 feet and were also able to take advantage of a break in the clouds to deliver an attack on. the British cruisers.

So effective, however, was the defence put' up by ihe British squadron that the German planes found it impossible to find the target.

It appears that the squadron was covering the movements of one of the British submarines which were damaged and was coming back, and it was during this operation that the Germans made their fruitless attack, Two of their "planes were brought down and at least one was badly damaged.—Reuted,

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