MANY BOMBINGS
BRITISH AIR FORCES ACTIVE IN MIDDLE EAST ATTACKS ON MESSINA & OTHER CENTRES. MUCH DAMAGE CAUSED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY. September 12. A general R.A.F. Middle East communique states: “Heavy and medium bombers of the R.A.F. and aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm raided a number of objectives in Cyrenaica during the night of September 10. At Benghazi the harbour was bombed, fires breaking out at the base of the Cathedral Mole. The landing grounds at Gambut and Derna also were attacked. A large number of bombs were dropped on the train ferries’ landing stages ( and the ferry power house at Messina during the night of September 10. Details of the damage caused could not be observed owing to smoke. Yesterday medium bombers of the R.A.F. located two merchantmen and one destroyer in the lonian Sea. The larger of the merchant ships was hit twice and photographs taken by our aircraft show that the ship was left in a sinking condition. “In Abyssinia yesterday R.A.F. bombers successfully attacked hangars at the Azozo aerodrome. “On the night of September 10 an unidentified enemy aircraft dropped a small number of bombs near Acre, in Palestine. No damage or casualties resulted.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 6
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