MUCH DAMAGE DONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1943, Page 3

MUCH DAMAGE DONE

BBATTLESHIPS BOMBARD' TOE OF ITALY RODNEY & NELSON IN ACTION. WARSHIPS RANGING FREELY IN ENEMY WATERS. LONDON, September 1. A message from North Africa slates that the British battleships Rodney and Nelson did much damage in a bombardment of targets in< Italy at Reggio and'another • place. A correspondent stales that Allied warships have shelled targets up and down the toe of Italy in recent weeks, but this is the first time battleships have taken a part in the bombardments. Areas which were previously regarded as Italy's home waters are now entered by large forces of warships. • r ‘ ■ RAILWAYS BOMBED TEN INTERCEPTING, FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN. ENEMY SHIP DAMAGED OFF GREEK COAST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. A Cairo air communique says United States Liberators yesterday attacked railway installations at Pescara. The marshalling yards were well covered' with bombs, resulting in fires and explosions. Bombs also directly hit a railway station and a railway bridge over a river. Ten intercepting fighters v. ere shot down. R.A.F. Beaufighters damaged a merchantman off the west coast of Greece. One of our planes is missing. A Rome communique says Allied planes yesterday bombed Pisa, Pescara, Salerno, Cosenza and Catanzaro, causing considerable damage and many civilian casualties. BIG ITALIAN TRANSPORT SUNK BY UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT. DIRECT HIT ON CRUISER. LONDON, September 1. Two American fighter-bombers recently sank a 50,000-ton transport of the Conte di Savoia class, anchored near Bagnafa, south-western Italy, announced the War Department. The pilots reported two direct hits. They said that the whole ship lurched, and the stern sank; the vessel then shook itself and rose to the surface, but reconnaissance the next day showed that the ship had sunk. Another formation of Invaders scored a direct hit on an Italian cruiser off the south-west coast of Italy.