LOSSES AT SEA
SOME ENEMY ADMISSIONS & CLAIMS. (Bj’ Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. An Italian communique reports that tiie Conte Rosso, while sailing in convoy in the Mediterranean, was hit by a torpedo. The major part of the crew was saved. The communique adds that Italian Air Force planes repeatedly attacked enemy naval forces in the Eastern Mediterranean and that a British destroyer blew up after being hit by a bomb. Many of the crew were rescued. It is officially stated in Berlin that the Luftwaffe sank two British destroyers off Crete on May 29.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 6
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100LOSSES AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 6
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