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THREE ITALIAN SUPPLY SHIPS WORK OF BRITISH SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN. ON THE ROUTE TO LIBYA. British submarines in the Mediterranean are adding considerably to Italy’s difficulties in sending supplies to troops in Libya, a Daventry broadcast states. One British submarine reports having sunk an Italian supply ship of 3000 tons and another reports having attacked a convoy of two supply ships escorted by a destroyer. Both ships were sunk. AN OFFICIAL REPORT (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 9. Recent successful activities of British submarines are mentioned by an Admiralty communique, which states: “British submarines are operating in Mediterranean waters, adding considerably to the Italian High Command’s difficulties in keeping its army in Libya supplied. The submarine Osiris has sunk an Italian supply ship of about 3,000 tons. The submarine Rorqual attacked a convoy of two supply ships, escorted by one destroyer. The Rorqual torpedoed and sank both the Italian supply ships.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 5
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