NAVAL ENCOUNTER
IN THE SICILY CHANNEL ADDITIONS TO ITALIAN REPORT. BRITISH CRUISER ALLEGEDLY SEEN SINKING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. The Rome radio, supplementing official details of the Mediterranean battle given in a communique yesterday, says: “A flotilla of three Italian torpe-do-boats in the Sicily Channel discovered a British naval squadron. The flotilla leader ordered full steam ahead and attacked a British cruiser with three torpedoes, at a distance of about a quarter of a mile. It also fired several gunshots. Our torpedo-boats had to suffer under a heavy pounding from the cruiser. The flotilla leader was heavily struck and sank with its commander on deck, reporting by wireless to his base that the vessel was sinking. A second torpedo-boat also sank after being struck by several gunshots. A fire broke out aboard one of our destroyers which came to the aid of the torpedo-boats. The destroyer was taken in tow and proved unable to proceed. Consequently it was blown up by its own crew, who took to the boats. They saw a British cruiser sink.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 6
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