SOME TELLING BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 6

SOME TELLING BLOWS

IN LIBYA & ELSEWHERE R.A.F. OPERATIONS. BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY. July 10. A Middle East communique states: "In Cyrenaica yesterday, R.A.F. bombers attacked enemy aerodromes at Martuba and Gazala, starting fires at both places. During the night of July 8. heavy bombers carried out further attacks on Benghazi, causing fires at quays near the Cathedral Mole. Night attacks were also made on the landing grounds at Dorna, Martuba, Eltmimi and Gazala. "Unidentified enemy aircraft, which raided Malta during the night of July 8, were intercepted by our fighters. One, believed to be a Fiat BR2O, was shot down in flames into the sea. "In Sicily, R.A.F. aircraft attacked Italian float planes on the water at Syracuse yesterday. Three float planes were burned out and several others were badly damaged, while casualties were caused among crews on the slipways by machine-gun attacks. Enemy aircraft were engaged over the Sicilian coast and a number, including a Macchi C2OO and a seaplane, were badly damaged. "In Syria yesterday R.A.F. aircraft attacked Vichy aircraft on the ground at Aleppo, destroying two and damaging about ten others. Aircraft of a South African squadron attacked and damaged armoured cars near Beirut and in the Damour area. R.A.F. bombers blew up ammunition stocks at Beirut and bombed a railway siding at Rayak. "From all the above operations one of our aircraft is missing.”