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ITALIAN BASES ATTACKED MERCHANT SHIPS CAPTURED Not waiting for thfe Italian Command to attack, the Allies in the Near East have taken I the initiative. A Royal Air Force communique issued in Cairo a few hours ago states that bomb ers attacked Italian bases in East Libya and Italian East Africa, destroying aircraft on the ground and petrol dumps. The places attacked were the principal Italian air bases threatening the Red Sea route and the Sudan. The bombers met some opposition from Italian fighters but the latter were driven off. Three R.A.F. 'planes are missing. The Royal Navy, too, has been active and has sown extensive mine fields around the Italian coast and on the Albanian coast. ft is estimated that 27 Italian merchant ships have been lost, by capture, internment or scuttling. Fourteen have been interned in British ports. * 9 o » On the Western Front the battle continues to rage. The latest French communique states that on the Aisne and the Meuse there was nothing of im portance but there has been at further withdrawal in the sector covering Paris. The French' Army continues to fight magnificently in face of 3 to 1 odds* m m * m Paris is being evacuated and the military authorities are erecting barbed wire barricades s as e a The R.A.F. yesterday bombed! enemy lines of communications, destroying armoured columns and attacking troop concentrations. The activities covered a wide area in the region of Rouen and further extensive raids were made over Western Germany, military objectives being attacked. More British troops have ar-# rived in France and other reinforcements are being rapidlyorganised. m ac 9 » . The civilian population of Malta is being evacuated.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 172, 12 June 1940, Page 5
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