MANY TARGETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1943, Page 4

MANY TARGETS

FOUND IN MEDITERRANEAN BY BRITISH SUBMARINES. ADMIRALTY GIVES DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, July 27. ' An Admiralty communique states: “British submarines continue to pursue and harass the enemy in coastal waters in the Northern Mediterranean and have also successfully bombarded shore targets. On the Island of Amorgos, in the South Aegean Sea. hits were scored on sheds, dynamite dumps and the transporter system of a bauxite plant. Various installations were bombarded at Stratonike, in the Gulf of lerssou, near Mount Athos, in Posidia, on the east side of the Gulf of Salonika and at Kastro, on Lemnos. At Neaplayia, on the eastern approaches to Salonika, warehouses and a pier were damaged by gunfire from submarines, which also destroyed three supply ships and a tanker by torpedoes and nineteen small enemy vessels by gunfire. This tanker was attacked in the North Aegean, while proceeding under the escort of two destroyers and an anti-submarine vessel, and was seen to sink. Near Suda Bay, in Crete, an attack on a supply ship was followed by a violent explosion and ten minutes later the target was still obscured by smoke. This vessel is considered to have been seriously damaged or sunk. In the same area a torpedo hit was scored on a supplyship escorted by two destroyers, and a naval auxiliary craft yas damaged by gunfire. Shipping in Italian coastal waters was also harassed by a submarine. In the Gulf of Genoa, a supply ship was torpedoed and sunk. Another was destroyed off Elba and a third was sunk by a torpedo off the Island of Monte Cristo, south of Elba. A small naval auxiliary vessel was engaged near Cotrone, in Southern Italy, and sunk. In addition, 17 small vessels and an armed tug were destroyed by gunfire from submarines.”