London, June 12.
Heavy British bombers struck at three German warships in the har-hour of Brest late on Tuesday night, and "large-weight bombs were dropped on docks zd anchorages," the Air Ministry announced, A cruiser of ihe Hipper class, believed to be the Prinz Eugen, was in refuge at Brest, together with the German battleships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, the communique stated, The Prinz Eugen, which accompani. ed the 35,000-ton tattieship, Bismarck, on its last fatal voyage, e dently had escaped searching Royal Navy units and found refuge in Brest, The Prinz Eugen left the Bismarck in an effort to escape before the latter was sunk.
The Gneise: and Scharnhorst have been in Brest for several weeks, apparently for repairs to damage sustained by the battering R.A.F. attacks carried out when the two warships were first reported in Brest—United Press,
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