ITALY’S AIR STRIKING POWER CRIPPLED
R.A.F. Attacks in Middle East STATEMENT BY AIR MARSHAL (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) CAIRO. June 11. A second R.A.F. communique states; British planes made additional attacks to these already mentioned, and bombed troop concentrations and more petrol dumps. The Oommander-in-Chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Long-more, told newspaper corres-< pondents that he thought the R.A.F. raids had crippled Italy s air-striking power in the Middle East. They caught the Italians by surprise, this probably explaining the light anti-aircraft fire and weak opposition from fighter planes. SHIP CAPTURED Carrying Cargo of Bombs According to a Daventry broadcast the British Navy captured an Italian ship in the Red Sea, carrying 5000 tons of bombs and thousands of tons of cement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1940, Page 6
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