BRITISH RAIDS

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 8

BRITISH RAIDS

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

italian strongholds motor trasport hit little reply by enemy

Rec. 7.30 p.m. London, Sept. 23. Still the only news of the African theatre -is of air attacks by British planes which are now penetrating deep into Libya. Rome sources admit th.es e attacks but do not mention any great activity by Italian services. A bomber squadron on Friday attacked the Giarabub fort, states an Royal Air Force communique. Many direct hits were scored and a large cloud of smoke arose. Enemy fighters attacked the formation returning from the raid and one Italian was shot down. One Biritish plane did not return. An attack was also made on a motor transport concentration 25 miles south of Giarabub. Bombs fell on stationary vehicles. Many fires and explosions occurred. South African Force Strikes. A Nairobi communique received on Saturday says: "Successful attacks ^ on Maji were made by the South African air force -on Wednesday. Waves of aircraft bombed military buildings and aerodromes. Direct hits were scored on buildings with heavy bombs and large fires were started. In addition numerous reconnaissance flighte were made over Abyssinia and Somaliland. All our machines returned safely." "Two bomber formations escorted by fighters again attacked Malta, bombing the Micaba and Halfar airports," states a Rome report. "Clearing-up operations and reconnaissance were continued in North Africa. The British bombed Garnulgrein and Giarubub, about 150 miles southward of Tobruk. There were few casualties. British mechanised _ units twice attacked, the Kassala zone in the Sudan but retired with losses. Our air force bombed enemy defences in the middle Sudan."