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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 6

ACHIEVEMENTS OF BRITISH SUBMARINES AGAINST ITALIAN CRUISER & SUPPLY SHIPS. ADMIRALTY REPORT. (British Official Wireless.') (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 3. An Italian cruiser has been torpedoed and possibly sunk, and supply vessels totalling 7,000 tons have been torpedoed and sunk by British submarines in the Mediterranean. This news is contained in two Admiralty communiques. The first communique reads: “An Italian cruiser, either the Eugenio Di Savoia or the Emanuel Filibcrato Duca Daosta, has been attacked in the Mediterranean. This enemy cruiser was in company with a six-inch gun cruiser of the Garibaldi class, and they were screened by destroyers. Two hits were secured and destroyers were observed later to be circling the position in which the cruiser had been hit and to be laying a protective smoke screen. It is not known whether the enemy cruiser sank.”

The second communique states: “Submarines operating" in the Mediterranean have reported further successful action against the enemy. Supply vessels of 1,600 and 6,000 tons have been torpedoed and sunk. A floating dock, towed by two tugs and escorted by a destroyer and two torpedo-boats, was attacked within less than a mile of the Italian coast. The floating dock was hit by at least one torpedo.