DAMAGE IN GENOA
RESULTS OF BRITISH NAVAL BOMBARDMENT GREATER THAN AT FIRST BELIEVED. SOME IMPRESSIVE DETAILS. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright' LONDON. February 18. More details have been revealed in London today of the effects of the naval bombardment of Genoa, and they show that electrical services were interrupted, and railways and trams were at a standstill after the shelling. A gasometer burnt all day. A troopship in the old dry dock was hit. Large fires were caused at the Ansaldo electrical and boiler works, the main power station, dry docks, .and inner harbour. There, wore also hits on oil tanks, goods yards, and merchant ships. Various buildings in the industrial district were hit. and great damage was done to wharves ana warehouses. The moral effect of the bombardment has been considerable, and the material damage even greater than at first believed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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140DAMAGE IN GENOA Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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