MUCH DAMAGE DONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5

MUCH DAMAGE DONE

BRITISH AIR ATTACKS. IN LIBYA AND SICILY. ‘British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.36 a.m.) RUGBY. August 11. A R.A.F. Middle East communique states: “'On the night of August 9, Blenheim bombers attacked gun repair shops at Bardia, starting a number of large bright fires. “Enemy landing-grounds at Gazala were also bombed and machine-gun-ned. “Yesterday Maryland bombers of the South African Air Force carried out attacks on enemy positions, motor vehicles and personnel in the neighbourhood of Bardia. “On August 9, R.A.F. bombers demolished a barrack and blockhouses south of Misurata and also attacked enemy motor transport vehicles and petrol trailers in the same neighbourhood. All the trailers were holed by machinegun bullets and several lorries were overturned and destroyed. The formation then attacked two large ammunition supply dumps, which were scattered and the personnel standing by were killed or wounded. “Aircraft of the Fleet Ah’ Arm made a torpedo attack on a large merchantman at Syracuse on August 9. A quantity of bombs was also dropped at Augusta, one making a direct hit on a gasometer. “From these operations all our planes returned safely.”