DODECANESE RAID

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1940, Page 5

DODECANESE RAID

ITALIAN AIR BASE BOMBED 1 1 ! HANGAR SET ON FIRE r 1 EXPLOSIONS IN AMMUNITION r DUMP. ) (British Official Wireless.) > (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, October 29. > An Admiralty communique states: 5 “Naval aircraft from British ships of i the Mediterranean Fleet carried out an attack on Maltezana, the capital of the , island of Seampalia, in the Dodecanese ; group, which is the nearest Italian air > base to Athens. A hangar was hit and i set on fire and a seaplane slipway was damaged by a direct hit. A consider - L able number of bombs were dropped on • barracks and in. an ammunition dumps area, causing heavy explosions, which continued for some time after the aircraft had left the area. Incendiary bombs were also scattered over the target area. All our aircraft returned. “CHESTS OF STEEL” GREEK PREMIER SALUTES ARMY. POSITIONS HELD AGAINST ATTACKS. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) ATHENS, October 29. General Metaxas’s first order of the day to the Army reads: “At the end of the first day, on which with chests of steel you have defended the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the whole nation salutes you. Forward soldiers of Greece, for victory awaits you.” A communique stated: “The enemy armed forces attacked our positions in successive waves, but all our troops held on successfully.” TURKEY UNITED IN WORLD OF DARKNESS & THREATS. i PREMIER'S DECLARATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 28. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Dr. Saydam, broadcasting today bn the seventeenth anniversary of the declaration of the Turkish Republic, said that the Turkish people were united in a world of darkness and threats. The steadfastness which the Turkish people had shown before the increasing gravity of the world situation, and their of love of honour and independence, were realised today as in the past. “We have confidence in our strength, and do not hesitate to defend our independence,” he said.