The German squadron leader, showing greater daring. than any other attacks, swooped down over the middle of a'ship in the convoy and flattened out until his machine ap peared to sit astride the masts, when released his bombs.
The raiders climbed.steeply back and quickly repeated" the attack. Then ""laming onions" dotted the sky around them and. they fled Fighters closed in on them while they tried to reach the cover clouds and after. the crackle of machine-gun fire two fell into the "en in flames. An hour later bombers made a third attempt on the convoy but the attack was quickly broken London, July 25.
Nearly 300 French lives are feared to have been lost as a result of the sinking, without warning, by the Germans last night of the 6,127-ton Fiench ship Meknes, one of a number used in the repatriation of French naval officers and men.
announcing this in the House of Commons today, Mr. A. V. Alexander, Fisst Lord of the Aamiralty, said the ship was sunk by a torpedo from a German speedboat, and that 20 far nearly 1,000 persons had been rosetied by British vessels. Reuter.
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