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LEGHORN NOW A HEAP OF SMOKING RUNS PORT PUT OUT OF ACTION. TREMENDOUS DAMAGE DONE IN HARBOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 31. The “Evening Standard’s’’ Berne correspondent says a report from Rome describes Leghorn as a smoking heap of ruins, fqllowing on the American air attack on Friday. Telegraph, telephone and rail connections with the town are still cut Engineers had to concentrate on repairing at least part of the water distribution system, which was severely damaged. Independent witnesses say fires are still fiercely burning in many parts of the town, which has been evacuated by the defence services. The port district, which is the concentration point for the supply service to Sardinia and Corsica, has been razed. Many ships in the harbour were either sunk or damaged seriously. An unconfirmed report states that an
ammunition ship blew up, adding greatly to the destruction of the town, which has a normal population of 130,000.
The town is being evacuated, since the food and water supply is insufficient for more than a few days.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 3
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