Show i LONDON S S 0 S 10 ave S S. S PARI fc i 5 S i S. S ceon S S S 'S Sl S S FRANCE FRANCES S k S S J JS S Bilbo t P S 9 too S S MILES AssocIated Press 0 Map Mop Nazi Navy Fades British warships and planes sank three German Garman destroyers in the Bay of Biscay symbols and crippled others G Germans assert British c commandos made two raids on Sark underlined in the Channel islands I British Commandos Raid Channel e Channells Isle Nazis Say LONDON Dec 29 UP lf The I The T e Ge Germans said 4 Wednesday ay t twp 9 British commando comm d assaults assault had d. d bee carrIed een-carrIed days on Sark in th the Channel islands tIl athwart a possible pos pos- sible bl r route u e f for i fl fight p D' D isenhowe s forthcoming jn- jn in I vas vasi cin of can from the west nL Si s The Account by the news news' agency B follower follower follower fol fol- fol- fol lower a report by the German high command Sunday of a combined British commando raid Christmas eve ye In an apparent probing of defenses on the nazi- nazi held French coast coastS S None of the he reports was confirmed confirmed con con- firmed by any allied source 1 The broadcast said that the Sark ark assaults failed like all aU similar att attempts of this kind e The Germans claimed Sunday to have wiped out the commando force raiding the channel coast vAs As the enemy approached the i be beaches ches several heavy detonations could be heard and the glow of fires fires' observed presumably due to the explosion of mines D N B dec declared ared It could be assumed from this that the mines had done their work A later checkup confirmed this One British soldier was found dead On the German side there was no need for the defenses to go into action occupied Sark and the other channel islands at the end of f June 1940 The islands lie 15 to 30 miles from the west wet coast of the Cher Cherbourg peninsula and andare are valuable stepping ston stones s for any allied invasion of the French coast From their first first- first class lass fighter bases planes could give tactical support to allied landings Sark is the wildest and most picturesque picturesque pic plc- of the the- channel islands It lies six miles west of Guernsey is three miles long a amile mile and a half wide and is almost entirely rockbound Its normal population is 5 |