YET AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 5

YET AGAIN

NAVY STRIKES TELLING BLOW IN MEDITERRANEAN Six Enemy Supply Ships Sunk by Submarines FOUR OTHERS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS SUNK ON SUNDAY LONDON, November 11. An Admiralty communique reports a further successful action by British submarines in the Mediterranean in which six enemy ships were sunk and four others seriously damaged. Of the six vessels, sunk, four were troopships or supply ships, three of which were sunk by torpedoes and the fourth by gunfire. The other two were sailing vessels, one of them carrying the Nazi flag. The enemy ships damaged included an armed merchant cruiser of about 8,000 tons and another of about 5,000 tons. One supply ship of medium size was left in flames. Another, a tanker, was hit by a torpedo. ’ It is now known that the total Italian losses in the naval engagement in the Mediterranean on Sunday were ten supply ships and three destroyers, with two other destroyers seriously damaged. The third destroyer was sunk by a British submarine which intercepted the shattered ehemy escort on its way home, after the convoy in its charge had been wiped out. The submarine hit and badly damaged another enemy destroyer. A tribute to the work of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean has been paid by General Sir Thomas Blarney, Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East. Speaking in Canberra, Sir T. Blarney said: “They are doing great work. Hardly an enemy convoy goes out without losing a considerable proportion of its strength.”