ITALIAN REPORT
OBVIOUS FALSEHOODS REGARDING BRITISH RAIDS ON WAR FACTORIES. “FARMHOUSE SET ON FIRE.” (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day. 11.5 a.m.) ROME, August 28. A communique states: ‘’British planes, coming as usual across Swit-. zerland, last night raided Piedmont and Lombardy. A few bombs fell at Michelino, in the Rurin province, where a farmhouse was set on fire. “We again violently bombed the oil centre of Haifa last night, hitting a railway station and a new oil refinery, starting large fires everywhere. All our planes returned. “Large numbers of enemy planes raided Derna and a small Italian ship carrying timber was hit. Elsewhere, sustaining some damage, two were killed and five wounded.
“The enemy hit the native hospital at Harar and the local garrison hospital at Dessye, where eight persons ■were killed and 29 wounded, also the prison at Hassawa, but there were no casualties. One British plane was shot down.”
British official reports make it clear that in the attack to which the above communique refers the Fiat aircraft factory at Turin was successfully bombed, nad a large fire started. The results of the attack were observed clearly by British airmen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1940, Page 6
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