R.A.F. ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1941, Page 6

R.A.F. ATTACKS

I DAMAGfi DONE IN MANY I AREAS — ■ IN ALBANIA AND AFRICA. ENEMY LOSSES OF PLANES. (British Ollie-lai Wireless.) ■ (Received This Day. 12.20 p.m.l rugby'. February 23. I A R.A.F. Middle East communique I stales: "In further successful raids by I R.A.F. bombers considerable damage ' was done to enemy storage dumps and ' motor transport columns in the Buzi j area, near Tepelene. yesterday. In the I Preveza area, one of the British tighti ed patrols shot down three enemy airi craft —a three-engined seaplane, which * crashed into the sea and two threeI engined bombers. "In the region south-west of Brava, south of Benghazi, bombers of the South African .Air Force made heavy ; bombing and machine-gun attacks irom a low height on enemy troop concentrations, ".A camp at Mega in the Moyale region. was also bombed. As a result of an attack' by South African lighters on Massawn .Aerodrome, announced yesterday fires were started among j the forts and buildings. At. Burse the I R.A.F. bombed and machine-gunned troop positions cast of the town. "It is now learned that as a result! of the encounter near Brava on Februp ary 19. between fighters of tile Austra-j linn squadrons and a number of Jun-! kers 87’s and Messerschmitt lid’s, one! Junkers and om- Messerschmitt were! destroyed. "From all these operation?; one Bri-j lish lighter is missing." ITALIAN REPORT ‘Received 'Phis Day. 1140 a.m.i I LONDON. February 23. ! An Italian communique rey.w Ar. j enemy miacl: in the Kanchewa z-.r.e. I m Eritrea. w;.- ; rcpul•«•<:! A motori<-*d' column was aLo repulsed on the Low-' er Juba Enemy pkmes dumbed the 10-j eahty of (jam '