BLAZE IN BENGHAZI
BRITISH RAIDS ON ENEMY BASES NAZI PLANE SHOT DOWN OVER TOBRUK. MORE ATTACKS ON AERODROMES IN SYRIA. LONDON, June 2. In North Africa, British planes have made further raids on enemy bases. On Saturday night Benghazi was raided and fires were started which could be seen forty miles away. Yesterday a South African fighter shot down a German plane over Tobruk. In Syria, German planes at Aleppo were again attacked. One large twinengined plane was destroyed and others damaged. British bombers continue to harass the Italians in Abyssinia. South African planes successfully attacked enemy positions and. motor transport in the Jimma area and the R.A.F. bombed enemy troops in the Gondar area. Free French planes also bombed and machine-gunned transport at two other places in the same district. Telegraphic and telephonic communication between Syria and Egypt has been suspended as the result of action taken by the Vichy authorities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 5
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152BLAZE IN BENGHAZI Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 5
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