HEAVY TOLL
TAKEN OF ENEMY SHIPPING BOTH IN WESTERN EUROPE & MEDITERRANEAN. ENTERPRISING BRITISH AIR ATTACKS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 3. Attacks on enemy shipping, at sea, in dock and on slipways, continue,, and during the week ended June 30 heavy loss and damage to enemy shipping were reported from the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, concentration of heavy air attacks on harbours, ports and naval bases in north-west Ger-many and enemy-occupied countries is the most noteworthy feature of the week.
The naval base at Kiel has been the most regular objective of the Bomber and Coastal Commands and the Fleet Air Arm has operated with the Coastal Command. Bremen, Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Sylt, Oldenburg, Hamburg, Den Helder, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne have all come in for their share of punishment. Off the coast of Syria full support has been given British and Free French troops operating against the Vichy forces and the harbours of Beirut and Tripoli have been frequently bombed with good effect. Bombing the harbour at Benghazi has become almost a routine exercise for the R.A.F., and there are reports of at least six raids there during the week. Direct hits were observed on moles and numerous fires started. A convoy of merchant vessels was attacked off the south coast of Italy by the R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm, and three vessels, totalling 60,000 tons, received direct hits, two from torpedoes and one from a bomb. A ship acting as a supply and prison ship for a German raider’ was intercepted and the prisoners rescued. A submarine sank an enemy tanker of about 7000 tons and a supply ship of I 500 tons. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 5
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