ITALIAN REPORT
“ADVANCE ON WHOLE FRONT.” (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) ROME, June 24. A war communique states that Italy launched an offensive along the Alpine from Mont Blanc to the French Riviera, starting on Friday and continuing. “Despite strong enemy resistance.” the communique states, “the Italian troops pushed forward with considerable success and occupied Fort Chentaillct. Briancon and Razet. Units also reached the Valley of the Isere, penetrating fortified systems and endangering the entire enemy front. The Italian troops are advancing on the entile front and also in the low part of the Tyrhennean Sea.
“An Italian torpedo-boat sank an enemy submarine.
“The Italians bombarded enemy bases at Masra, Matruh and Sidi Barrani in North Africa, while in East Africa we bombarded air bases at Jibouti and Berbera and enemy troop concentrations in Kenya at Syop. “The enemy aviation bombed Palermo, in Sicily, without damaging military objectives. Twenty-five persons were killed and 153 wounded. One enemy plane was shot down.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 5
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