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LOST ITALIAN CONVOY. MISTAKE MADE EVEN IN DATE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. In connection with the action in which an Italian convoy of five ships was sunk in its entirety, with all three destroyer escorts, between Sicily and Tripoli, on the night of April 16, it is learned in London that the ships were laden with motor transport, that one had ammunition and that two almost certainly were troop transports. The Italian claim that they lost only one “torpedo boat” and two ships is unlikely to carry weight in view of the fact that they gave an inaccurate date, April 17, for the action. The British Navy was on the spot to meet the convoy on the night of April 16,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 5
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125VAIN DENIAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 5
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