DAY & NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 5

DAY & NIGHT

BRITISH AIR OPERATIONS AT PALERMO CONCENTRATED ONSLAUGHT ON BARDIA. „ ENEMY LOSES 13 PLANES ' IN ATTACKS ON CONVOY. LONDON. September 30. A daylight raid on Palermo by the R.A.F. is reported in today’s communique from the Middle East. Aeroplane and seaplane bases were attacked. Two bombers, six seaplanes and one flying-boat were severely damaged. This raid followed an attack by heavy bombers on Palermo on Sunday night. In that attack direct hits were made on a power station, causing fires and explosions while merchant vessels in the harbour and the dry dock area were also attacked. Tonight’s communique from the Middle East reports a series of heavy attacks on Bardia by aircraft of the R.A.F., the South African Air Force and the Fleet’ Air Arm. On Saturday night harbour installations and works on the Island of Rhodes were bombed. One enemy plane was shot down into the sea and several others so badly damaged that they were unlikely to reach their base. Three of our planes are missing. It is known that 13 Italian aircraft were destroyed in recent attacks on one of our convoys in the Central Mediterranean.- An Admiralty communique states that six enemy planes were shot down by the Fleet 1 Air Arm and seven by the guns of the fleet.