ENEMY CONVOY BOMBED OFF TUNISIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 5

ENEMY CONVOY BOMBED OFF TUNISIA

Big Ship Blown Up and Others Damaged BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPY MOSUL OILFIELDS FURTHER 18,000 PRISONERS ROUNDED UP IN ABYSSINIA LONDON, June 4. A most successful attack was made by British aircraft on an enemy convoy proceeding south on the coast of on Tuesday. One enemy ship of about 8,000 tons blew up and flying debris hit and damaged other ships in the convoy. ately the debris also struck one of our bombers, which crashed into the sea. Direct hits were also scored on another ship m /the convoy, which was left blazing, and other vessels were British troops are now in occupation of the Mosul oil fields, in accordance with an agreement with the Iraq authoiities Rioting occurred in Bagdad on Monday. Martial law has been proclaimed and order has now been restored. The country generally is now quiet. . , , British planes bombed and machine-gunned a petrol depot at Beirut. According to a Vichy report an oil storage tank was destroyed. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire on the British Pla In Cyrenaica, South African fighters destroyed three enemy planes and machine-gunned a number of enemy aircraft on tne ground. Benghazi was raided for the second night m succession on Monday night. Large fires were started. A further 18,000 prisoners have been rounded up m Abyssinia. A Cairo communique states that the general advance continues. The enemy made a determined stand and launched determined counter-attacks supported by tanks. It is announced that during the evacuation of troops irom Crete the Australian cruiser Perth was hit by a bomb. Four men were killed and three wounded.