ITALIAN STORY
OF THE ABORTIVE RAID ON MALTA USE OF TINY BUT POWERFUL CRAFT. REGARDED AS PRECIOUS SECRET.
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) ROME, July 27.
The “Voce d’ltalia” said that the Eboat raid against Malta was made after information had been received, on July 25, that the British convoy which was attacked in the Mediterranean had taken refuge there. The newspaper described the boats with which the assault on the harbour was carried out as “tiny but powerful craft, on which the designers had worked silently for many years, constituting one of Italy’s most precious secrets.”
An earlier British Admiralty communique states that the Italian assaulting force was destroyed while attempting to enter Valetta Harbour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1941, Page 6
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