MISHAP TO ITALIANS.
(Rec. 1.2 p.m.) ANGORA, Sept. IS. Four Italian bombers returning from a raid on Tel Aviv made a forced landing on the Turkish coast on September 9. One nose-dived into the sea and was not seen again. Two floated for three hours. Six members of the crew are believed to have been drowned, an Italian Red Cross plane rescuing the remainder. The engine of the fourth plane cut out as the result of the failure of the lubricating system, but it made a good landing. A message from Malta says several enemy formations damaged Government property on Monday morning. Our lighters drove off’ another formation in the afternoon shooting down three planes and making a prisoner of one pilot. No bombs were dropped.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10
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126MISHAP TO ITALIANS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10
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