London, Dec. 20.
New classes will be called to the colours early in the new year, it was learned here last night.
The Air Ministry issued an announcement confirming that one German Dornier flying boat was attacked in the North Sea by coastal command aircraft last Wednesday and was shot down. "Three of the crew of four survived the attack and have been rescued by a Swedish steamer and taken to Opervik", the announcement claimed.
The British trawler Resercho, 258 tons, sank off the east coast of England yesterday after striking a mine. A tanker rescued the trawler's crew of nine, none of whom was injured.
Naval quarters here said the battleship damaged by the U-boat would not necessarily be out of action for a long period. They pointed out tnat the vessel was designed to withstand such attacks and it is virtually impossible for one torpedo to sink it, The fact, they said, that th' Germans first announced the torpedoing of the Vessel indicated that the submarine escaped.—It was presumed it was obliged to flee after a single lightning stroke.—United Press.
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