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BRITISH SUBMARINES ACTIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OVER A WIDE AREA. AEGEAN IRONWORKS SHELLED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 7. An Admiralty communique states that his Majesty’s submarines in the Mediterranean have sunk six ships and damaged two others. Of these, a med-ium-sized ammunition ship was destroyed by a torpedo in the Gulf of Genoa. In the same area a small supply ship carrying troops was sunk and a medium supply ship damaged by a torpedo. One submarine operating off the northern coast of Corsica torpedoed two medium supply' shins, one of which broke in 'two and sank, and the other was damaged. A naval auxiliary was sunk off the island of Elba, and an auxiliary petrol carrier was destroyed north of Bari and a small supply ship sunk off Tpulon. Another submarine bombarded important ironworks at Stratoni, on the coast of the northern Aegean Sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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153SIX SHIPS SUNK Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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