FIERCE FIGHTING
BETWEEN FORCES OF ALL ARMS PRIOR TO SURRENDER FRENCH NAVAL CRAFT. DESTROYED AT ORAN & CASABLANCA. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, November 10. A British naval force under Commodore Troubridge, who is a direct descendant of one of Nelson’s captains, destroyed all the French warships engaged in resisting the landings at Oran. The entire force of French destroyers and other fighting craft at Casablanca has been wiped out, according to a war correspondent at the Allied headquarters, who adds that the battleship, Jean Bart, has been - left a burning hulk, and a cruiser is badly da m a e d "The French destroyers put up the stiffest resistance. Admiral Hewitt
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1942, Page 3
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