MATAPAN BATTLE
ITALIAN CASUALTIES PROBABLY WELL ABOVE ESTIMATE. THOUSANDS OF BODIES SEEN IN SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 4. Italian casualties in the Battle of Cape Matapan probably were the heaviest of any naval engagement since Jutland. They are likely to be considerably higher than the official estimate. the Associated Press of Great. Britain Alexandria correspondent states. H.M.S. Gloucester cruised past the scene of the morning after the battle, and the officers said that thousands of bodies were strung over 15 miles of sea off Cape Matapan. “From what I learned from survivors,” the correspondent adds, “Italian officers and sailors fought among themselves for life-jackets and liferafts after the shells from our battleships started pouring into the Fiume and Zara."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 6
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