IN THE RED SEA
TWO ITALIAN DESTROYERS SCUTTLED MAKING LOSS OF FIVE IN FEW DAYS. SOME PRISONERS LANDED. Two more Italian destroyers in the Red Sea have been scuttled by their crews and a third, which was reported on the previous day to have been left in a sinking condition has sunk, the 8.8. C. reports. A number of prisoners of war from these warships have been landed. The Italians have now lost five destroyersin the Red Sea in the last few days. Of the two scuttled yesterday, the bow of one is showing above the water and the masts and funnels of the other. President Roosevelt, at his Press conference in . Washington yesterday, said if there was no prospect of fighting taking place in the Red Sea, the United States might remove that area from the list of war zones and permit United States ships to carry cargoes there. Such action might 1 be taken in two or three days.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 5
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