AXIS SHIPS SUNK
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, October 17. Two British submarines in the Mediterranean have sunk three further supply ships and torpedoed four others, according to an Admiralty communique. The first one torpedoed and damaged a small enemy supply ship near the Libyan coast and sank another small supply ship and schooner at anchor and scored a torpedo hit on a mediumsized supply ship which was beached on the southern Italian coast after Royal Air Force bombing. The second submarine sank an enemy supply ship and torpedoed and damaged two others, one of which was a large vessel. ATTACK ONAXIS CONVOY IN LIBYA (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. The Fighting French announce that Fighting French planes from Central African bases attacked a lorry convoy travelling across Sezzan, which is a district in southern Libya 200 miles north of Chad Territory.
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Southland Times, Issue 24878, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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140AXIS SHIPS SUNK Southland Times, Issue 24878, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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