Show I Germans Claim Sinking Ship Near Australia BERLIN Aug 24 AP German AP-German German sources asserted to tonight tonight tonight to- to night that some of the harbor facilities of the English naval port of oC Portsmouth had been left in flames today in heavy nazi air raids over Britain and that the British had lost 50 planes to 13 for the Germans BERLIN Aug 24 UP The UP-The The high command claimed Saturday to have sunk the armed British merchant ship Turakina tons in Australian waters The high command said submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines have sunk more than tons of British shipping during the past eight days No clue was given as to how the Turakina was attacked the com corn saying merely that it had been sunk by German naval forces operating in Australian waters wates One submarine was credited with sinking tons of British shipping and another was said to have destroyed the British merchantman merchantman merchantman mer mer- tons the Brockwood tons and a ship of tons It was claimed that a third submarine torpedoed a merchant ship of tons Describing operations of the German air force Friday and Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night the high command said that German planes attacked throughout southern England and the midlands and bombed ports dockyards armed factories and military camps The added that a number of British planes dropped bombs on western Germany durIng during during dur dur- ing the night without causing damage worth mentioning It was claimed that three British British British Brit Brit- ish planes were shot down by German pursuit ships Friday and four by antiaircraft fire It was admitted that two wo German planes were missing Authorized German quarters told of Saturdays Saturday's renewed German German German Ger Ger- man air raids on the British isles The official German news agency D. D N. N B. B said that German German German Ger Ger- man planes which attacked objectives objectives objectives tives in county Kent this morning morning morning morn morn- ing consisted of a large formation formation formation forma forma- tion of numerous planes flying in several waves of at least 20 each |