RAIDS ON MALTA
FOURTEEN ALERTS IN TWENTYFOUR HOURS
POSSIBILITY OF INVASION DISCUSSED.
MEANING OF INTENSIFIED ATTACKS.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, January 16.
Fourteen alerts in twenty-four hours were recorded in Malta on the eve of the anniversary of the first Luftwaffe attack on the island, when Stukas dive-bombed the harbour and H.M.S. Illustrious, which was undergoing repairs in a dockyard. Expert opinion is that the intensification of air attacks on Malta, 230 in the last five weeks, is due to either of two reasons: First, the Italians themselves claim that they are trying to neutralise Malta as a menace. British bombers would then be removed from the airfields of Sicily and Southern Italy and from convoys on the way to Libya; second, it may be the contemplation by Hitler of a sea and air invasion, which will be conducted by General Geissler, who is reported to be the leading German expert in these tactics and at present is the Nazi Com-mander-in-Chief in Southern Italy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 3
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