AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS
FIVE MORE SUNK IN CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN BY BRITISH SUBMARINES. AND NAVAL SMALL CRAFT. LONDON, January 18. Further successes by British submarines and naval small craft in the Central Mediterranean are announced by the Admiralty. One submarine made another raid on the Italian coast and shelled a goods train near Paola, on the western coast of Calabria. Many hits were scored on the train. Machine-gun batteries on shore tried to return the submarine's fire, without success. Threequarters of an hour later the train could be seen still burning. Another submarine made two torpedo hits on a large enemy supply ship, which went ashore in the Gulf of Genoa. A medium-sized supply ship off Sardinia was sunk. The ship was fully laden and was escorted by an Italian warship. A third supply ship was hit by gunfire and ran ashore, after being abandoned by its crew. The submarine sent a torpedo into the 1 stranded ship and split it in two. I Little ships of the Royal Navy have also had successes against the enemy I off the coast of North Africa. One force sent a small merchant ship to the bottom in the Gulf of Gabes on Saturday, and on the same night another force sank a medium-sized supply ship 100 miles out from Tripoli. FRENCH FEAT ADVANCE OF 1,900 MILES FROM CHAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, January 17. The British United Press correspondent in Tripolitania says that the Fighting French regiment from the Chad which has made contact with the Eighth Army, marched 1900 miles, systematically mopping up all Italian garrisons. When the Fighting French reached Murzuk the Italians had already fled, and French motorised units went in pursuit. A French airman spotted 110 Italians 20 miles ahead of the pursuers. He rounded them up like a sheep dog, and machine-gunned any who tried to escape. The Italians then waved white flags. The plane kept watch till the motorised units over took them. The Italian garrisons, spread over 1000 square miles of country, consisted individually of between 50 and 100 men. They were all either killed, wounded, or taken prisoner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 3
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