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FRANTIC BUT VAIN

ENEMY DEFENSIVE EFFORTS HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT. AT RELATIVELY SMALL COST (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 22. Mussolini today has met Italian defence leaders in conference in Rome as the Allied air offensive against Italy mounts to ever bigger proportions. A Reuter correspondent says that Mussolini heard reports on the anti-invasion plans from the chiefs of the principal civil departments controlling war supplies, transport and civilian evacuation.

The reinforced Luftwaffe and Italian air fleets are making frantic but vain efforts to ward off the Allied planes which are swarming over Italy, Sardinia and Sicily.

) Allied fighters and bombers are Smashing the Axis air bases and communications in Sicily and Sardina in a mighty air assault, says Reuter's Algiers correspondent. The harassed defenders up to last night have been relentlessly hammered non-stop for 96 hours. The North African strategic air force has brushed aside the weakening resistance and maintained a round-the-clock assault. A considerable number of Axis fighters have been patrolling the islands, and the Luftwaffe generals are striving to stave off the main weight of the attack, as the destruction or neutralisation of the key airfields in Sardinia and Sicily would leave Italy wide open to attack. A correspondent at the Allied headquarters in North Africa says that 86 enemy planes were destroyed yesterday, 19 of them in dogfights and 67 on the ground. The total number of Axis planes destroyed in the last three days is 273, while we lost 12.

“WE NEVER THOUGHT”

PLAINT BY ROME RADIO. WAVE OF BARBARISM. LONDON, May 22. The Rome radio said: “When we entered the war we could not expect such a trend in events. We never thought that the Europe of progress and civilisation would be swept by a wave of barbarism unsurpassed in history. The British and Americans have sworn to wipe out our cities, and they may carry out the threat. What

else can be expected of these modern barbarians, who drop explosive pen* , cils and dolls into our cities, aiming at the destruction of our children? We have entered a dark age. Europe is in peril.”

HEAVY TOLL

OF ENEMY MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING. SINCE BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN LONDON. May 22. It is announced that the British and Allied naval forces from the time of the battle of El Alamein last October till the capture of Bon Peninsular sank or damaged at least 313 Axis ships in the Mediterranean. This total does not include the enemy submarines destroyed or the ships sunk and damaged by mines. Various types of warships in the total numbered 56 and supply ships 257. Allied submarines made 228 successful attacks, surface ships made 56, and the Fleet Air Arm made 29.

A substantial proportion of the enemy ships claimed only as damaged are believed to have sunk before reaching harbour.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 3

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FRANTIC BUT VAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 3

FRANTIC BUT VAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 3

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