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ITALIAN FLEET AGAIN RUNS AWAY RETIREMENT AT HIGH SPEED. AFTER BEING ENGAGED AT EXTREME RANGE. The Admiralty announced yesterday, a 8.8. C. broadcast reports, that the Italian battle fleet, so far as it exists, has once more run away at sight of British warships. The Admiralty communique states that information has been received that out naval forces in the Mediterranean shortly before noon yesterday sighted an Italian force consisting of two battleships accompanied by a large number of cruisers and destroyers. The enemy retired at high speed towards his base. Our forces pursued and it is known that they engaged the enemy at extreme range. Since the successful bombing of Taranto by the Fleet Air Arm Italy has had only three serviceable battleships, so that it was practically the whole Italian battleship fleet that was encountered in the Mediterranean.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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