ITALIAN PRISONERS
MANY KILLED ON SHIP ATTACKED BY GERMAN PLANES. OFF COAST OF LIBYA. (British Official Wireless..) 'Received This Day. 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, February 3. An Admiralty communique states: "It has been reported from the Mediterranean that a largo number of Italian prisoners lost their lives as a result of an attack off the Libyan coast by two enemy aircraft, believed to be German, on a ship transporting prisonersof war. The ship was hit and sustained some damage. A large number of casualties were caused among the Italian prisoners, many of which were fatal."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 6
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94ITALIAN PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 6
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