BOMBING ATTACK
MADE BY ITALIAN PLANE ON SHIP CARRYING AXIS PRISONERS. ARRANGEMENTS FOR EXCHANGE IN TURKEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON. March 21. Italian and German prisoners on the British ship Talma, bound for Mersin, in Turkey, on prisoner exchange, had a narorw escape in the Mediterranean on Friday, when an Italian bomber dropped a stick of bombs alongside the ship. The captain wirelessed the Italian authorities, asking them to call off the bomber, and soon afterwards the plane ceased its attacks. The Talma and the Italian ship Gradisca anchored at Mersin yesterday, but the exchange was postponed until today because of bad weather. The prisoners include Admiral Cowan, who was taken prisoner just before Tobruk fell last year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1943, Page 4
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