ENEMY SUPPLIES
ATTACKED BY NAVAL AIRCRAFT IN NORTHERN NORWEGIAN ' WATERS. SEVERAL SHIPS HIT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. Further successful action has been taken by the Royal Navy against enemy supplies and sea communications with his troops on the north Russian front, states an Admiralty communique. At dawn on Wednesday naval aircraft attacked shipping and communications in the Vestfiord area, Norway. A supply ship of about a thousand tons was hit and left burning. The pylons of the electric power system were destroyed on the island. In further attacks during the day, a ship of about fifteen hundred tons was hit and seen to be abandoned and two supply ships of about two thousand tons, escorted by anti-aircraft ships, were attacked off Bodo, both supply ships being hit. AU our aircraft returned safely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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