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...fact remained last week, after more German air raids over the North Sea, one of which ended with a lone Heinkel bomber being brought down like a shot duck near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, that Germany's winter campaign of harassment affects the mass of Britain's shipping about as much as a woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning...
...sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover or Kinnaird Head (Moray Firth) entrances, heavily guarded by the Navy, to reach British east coast ports...
French and German pilots dog-fought over the congealed Western Front last week; Belgian and Dutch pilots chased belligerents out of their skies; a German scout tried for a look at the Firth of Forth and got his tail stung for his pains. But the 16th war week's biggest air battle was an Anglo-Nazi wrangle over what happened last fortnight when a large force of Vickers Wellington bombers was tackled by Messerschmitt fighters based on Helgoland. Britain continued to claim that she lost only seven and downed twelve (out of perhaps 36) Messerschmitts; that the virtue...
Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
LONDON--The British Admiralty tonight admitted that "a torpedo or a mine" damaged the new 10,000-ten cruiser Belfast near the entrance to the Firth of Forth Tuesday, the same night that a mine sank the destroyer-Gipsy...