NAVAL TACTICS
ITALY’S POOR SHOWING FAILURE OF TORPEDO CRAFT. PEOPLE BITTERLY SURPRISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, December 9. The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says the failure of their motor torpedo-boats has bitterly surprised the Italians. In the sole engagement of any importance, against the cruiser Sydney and a destroyer in the Dodecanese, the Italian boats were knocked out before they were near enough to launch their torpedoes. “We who have watched Italy’s line fleet being whittled away are surprised that the changes in command have not come sooner,” says the correspondent. "The Italians in six months have not made a concerted action or carried out a raid such as Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham produced several times a month, but it is not true that the Italians run away. “British sailors agree that the Italians in a number of recent actions adopted sound tactics in trying to draw the British into range of their coastal batteries and air force.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 5
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