ITALIAN DESTROYER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 6

ITALIAN DESTROYER

SUNK IN RUNNING FIGHT TWO ENEMY SUBMARINES DESTROYED. BRITISH UNDER-WATER CRAFT MISSING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. June 29. The Admiralty announce: “Three Italian destroyers were reported yesterday by R.A.F. reconnaissance aircraft. Acting on this information our light forces located the enemy and. in a running engagement at extreme range, sank one of the enemy destroyers. The enemy retired at high speed, the other two escaping under cover of darkness. There is no reason to believe that there were any British casualties.” The Admiralty also announces thatthe Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies reports the destruction of two more Italian submarines. The British submarine Grampus is overdue and must be considered lost. She carried a crew of 51. "y A communique in Rome states that \ an Italian submarine sank a 10,000-ton armed steamer which was navigating under an escort. The German High Command states that U-boats report the sinking of 38,000 tons of enemy merchant shipping. and another U-boat sank three armed enemy merchantmen. A message from New York says that the Radio Marine Corporation has picked up a message declaring that the steamship Edgehill was torpedoed at 10.25 p.m. yesterday. (The only Edgehill in Lloyds Register as a United . States freighter from New Orleans). The R.A.F. headquarters at Cairo announce: “One of our flying-boats on reconnaissance located an enemy submarine and attacked it. The result is not known.”