RAIDS ON CYPRUS
“♦ ■ ATTACKING PLANES FLY AT GREAT HEIGHT TOWN LATER MACHINE GUNNED. NO CASUALTIES OR DAMAGE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, September 23. The first enemy air attack on Cyprus is recorded in a communique from the headquarters of Cyprus troops which reads: "Hostile planes, flying at a great height, raided a town in the Morahou Bay area on Sunday morning. The attack lasted from 11.20 a.m. to 12.2 p.m. Bombs were dropped in the sea, but later part of the town was mach-ine-gunned. There were no casualties and no material damage. An air raid alarm was sounded in Nicosia from 11.25 a.m. to 12.5 p.m.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 5
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