The death-roll as a result of the German air raid on British warships in the Firth of Forth has risen to seventeen with the death of one of the seriously wounded—bluejackets, One of the three officers killed was Commander R. U. Jolly, of the destroyer Mohawk.
The frst intimation of a German air raid on Scapa Flow, the scene of the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak last Saturday, was made by Mr, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons yesterday after giving an account of the raid on the Firth of Forth, At 1030 yesterday morning, the Prime Minister said, an air raid took place at Scapa Flow, The attack was made by about four machines, Two bombs fell very near the 21,250-ton training ship Iron Duke, and the vessel sustained certain damage. No casualties occurred, The Iron Duke is an old battleship, demilitarized under the London Naval Treaty and had all her armour removed, She has since been used for depot and training ship purposes.
Mr, Chamberlain said that one of the raiders was shot down in flames by fire from either ship or shore guns, and another was probably damaged,
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