ESTABLISHED WITH ITALIAN NAVY IN MEDITERRANEAN
Enemy Squadron Retires at Speed BATTLESHIP HIT BY HEAVY BRITISH SHELL AT LONG RANGE FOUR AIRCRAFT DESTROYED BY FLEET AIR ARM (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 10. It is officially announced that British and Italian naval forces are in contact in the central Mediterranean to the east of Malta. (( The Admiralty, referring to the engagement, states: Almost immediately after the contact was made the enemy retired behind a smokescreen laid by their destroyers, but before the enemy were obscured one of our capital ships, at extreme range, obtained a hit on an Italian battleship. “Our Fleet Air Arm also attacked the enemy ships.” “The enemy force consisted of two battleships, a number of 8-inch and 6-inch-gun cruisers, and destroyers. “British forces based on Gibraltar also carried out a sweep to the.central Mediterranean. Four enemy aircraft were destroyed and seven others were damaged, including three which are unlikely to reach their base. No surface forces were encountered.” It is announced that at the time the report was received the enemy warships were still, being pursued by the British naval force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 5
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