RAID ON TEPELENE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 5

RAID ON TEPELENE

MADE BY BRITISH PLANES WEATHER RESTRICTING LAND OPERATIONS. GREEKS CONSOLIDATING GAINS. Bad weather in Albania is still restricting operations, the 8.8. C. states, but has not prevented another successful raid by R.A.F. bombers on Tepefbne, the main centre of operations at present. A R.A.F. communique states that military objectives were effectively bombed, direct hits on military stores and motor transport concentrations being observed. The Italian counter-attack of some days ago is described as having failed disastrously. Six enemy tanks were destroyed by the Greek guns. The Greeks are consolidating the new positions they have gained in the mountains beyond Klisura. dominating the east of Tepelene. ITALIAN TRANSPORTS HARRIED ON THEIR WAY TO ALBANIA. USE OF YUGOSLAV WATERS. ’ • BELGRADE. February 6. Two torpedoes apparently fired from a British or Greek submarine at an Italian transport missed the ship and exploded on the beach at Petrovag. near Budva. The authorities declared that the torpedoes were fired in Yugoslav territorial waters, where Italian transports are alleged to be seeking safety when going to Albania. It is also reported from Yugoslav ports that the wreckage of Italian ships and hundreds of oil barrels have been washed ashore, indicating a heavy British and Greek toll of Italian vessels. STIFFER RESISTANCE OFFERED BY ITALIANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY. February 7. It appears that the Italian resistance on the Albanian front is somewhat firmer which, considering the state of the weather and the type of the country, as well as the fact that the Italians are retreating on their, own bases, is only to be expected.