ITALIAN REPORT
CLAIM LAID TO NAVAL SUCCESSES BRITISH VESSELS ALLEGEDLY SUNK. R.A.F. RAIDS ON NAPLES & PALERMO. (British Ofrici.'il Wireless.) (Received This Dav, 9 a.m.) ROME, January 9. A communique says: "Waves of British planes last night attacked Naples and Palermo. Numerous bombs were dropped at Naples, but most of them fell into the sea. Fifteen buildings in Naples were hit, resulting in five persons being killed and thirty wounded. In the Palermo raid there were neither victims nor important damage.
"An Italian torpedo-boat rammed and sank a British submarine, while an Italian submarine, operating in the Atlantic, sank a British auxiliary cruiser. The submarine also sank a 3.Gild ton merchant ship.
“The Italian Air Force bombed Salonika, with evident results. "There is nothing worthy of mention on the Cyrenaica (Libyan) front. British air raids on Benghazi and Tripoli caused slight material damage and three deaths in Tripoli "On the Greek front there has been activity between patrols and actions of ;t local character.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 5
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163ITALIAN REPORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 5
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