PORT DESTROYED
WKECKS LITTEE TOBRUK London, Sept. 12. The Times says that combined operations of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm have rendered the Italian port of Tobruk in Libya utterly useless for supporting Italian troops and basing submarines and warships. The harbour has been clcared of its crowded shipping, including five submarines. of which at least one was sunk. The harbour is now littered with ships sunk or lying drunkenly on their sides.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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