Meanwhile, authoritative quarters revealed that, contrary to German German Planes Bomb Lo Havre Lo Havre, June 4.
Fresh from their bombing of Paris. during the day, German planes last night roared over Lo Havre and dropped many bombs on the port and the surrounding are The planes kept up their at~ tack from 10.15 pin. to 1.30 m. While no military ob= Jectives were hit, a number of private buildings were dam~ aged and several victims were discovered later among the ruins.—Havas, claims of about 100 French planes having been destroyed during gets, only four or five were shot down, while "15 Were destroyed on the ground, According tothe French communique. The German losses were 25 planes out of an estimated 125 to 1160 which took part in the raid, More-ever, the "communique added that many bombers were seriously hit, and were seen to be in present was a complet failure from every' point of view, accomplishing nothing in a military sphere and having no effect fon the moral of the population, Nozl leaders are, however, ungomtortably- aware of the effect that the' bombings had "on international opinion, particularly" in. the "United ates," his, it wad attested, Ys une doubteaty' the reason why the Ger mans are attempting to give to the folie a spectacular aspects Which hes relation to Tacs aircraft, in retaliation for ihe German According to latest ros
ald, effected highly successful bomb: ings on German military: objectives Jn'the regions of Munich' and Franke. {orton Hain, A German colonel commanding of the ale" squadrons which bofabod Faris|was aot down and captured, tie information Atay revealed was struck by a pat bomb, and the missile penetrated from the root right to the rst Moor of the building.
'The Passy and' Auteuil suburbs were also heavily bombed and many residences were struck, Very many of the buildings. in. there quarters have not any window panes. left Intact, The enti-fir raid organization worked perfectly this afternoon and every case where there was a fice, caused by one of the hundreds of incendiary bombs dropped by the talders, or where there were injuries, immediate care was given, This smooth functioning on the part of the fire department, the Red Gross and the various other units of the anti-air rald_preeautions system permitted a return to normal by late
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