3,000 TON TANKER
AND SMALLER ENEMY CRAFT SUNK BY SOVIET AIRCRAFT IN BLACK SEA. SUCCESSFUL GUERILLA ACTIVITIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This- Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 13.
The air arm of the Soviet Black Sea Navy sank in harbour an enemy tanker of 3,000 tons, two freight barges and two self-propelled pontoons, says a supplementary Soviet communique. On September 20, a Ukranian partisan group blew up a large railway bridge on an important sector of railway line. The Germans hurriedly sent a repair train, in order to restore the bridge, but the train was derailed by mines laid by the partisans. Then the Germans sent reinforcements and engineers, who erected a temporary bridge, but the partisans blew up a section of the line and another bridge, and lie enemy could not restore traffic. 1
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1943, Page 3
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