ATTACKS ON SHIPPING
SMALL SAILING VESSEL SUNK AT LEAST FIVE OTHERS DAMAGED. MIDDLE EAST & MALTA PLANES BUSY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 13. A Middle East air communique states: “Yesterday, in one of the attacks made on enemy shinning in the Aegean Sea and off the west coast of Greece, R.A.F. long-range fighters sank a small sailing vessel and damaged at least five others, two of which were beached. Direct hits were scored on the quay and on buildings in a harbour on Syros Island. One enemy plane was shot down. All our planes returned.” Yesterday long-range fighters from Malta attacked shipping off the toe of Italy, states an agency message. _ A coastal patrol vessel was left burning. Fighters on an offensive patrol over Sicily attacked a goods train with cannon and machine-gun fire. The locomotive and several trucks exploded. Intruder aircraft attacked railway communications and vehicles in Sicily and Southern Italy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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