ITALIAN CLAIM
SINKING OF BRITISH SUBMARINE. AIR RAIDS IN AFRICA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) . LONDON, October 16. An Italian communique claims that the Italian submarine Torti sank a - British submarine of the Perseus class, in the central Mediterranean, after a violent gun duel at very close range. It adds: —“British planes again raided Bardia, Scllum, Derna, and Dirsofoai, south-eastwards of Sidi Barrani, also Raegaza, Hassawa and Diredawa. The British made a night raid on Benhgazi, considerably damaged dwellings and sank a motor-boat.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19401017.2.63
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
85ITALIAN CLAIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in