RAID IN ALBANIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 3

RAID IN ALBANIA

FIRST AGAINST GERMANS. AMERICANS SUFFER NO LOSSES. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. The United States Mitchell bombers’ attack against Tirana airfield was the first against German forces in Albania, says Reuter’s Algiers correspondent. The Mitchells operated without loss from Italian bases and destroyed or damaged more than half the planes on the ground. MIDDLE EAST BOMBERS RAIDS ON RHODES & ELSEWHERE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, October 14. A Middle East air communique states: “R.A.F. heavy bombers attacked the Maritze airfields on Rhodes on Tuesday night, scoring hits in aircraft dispersal areas. Other aircraft, on an offensive patrol yesterday, bombed barracks at Ambelo on Gavdos Island. From these and other operations none of our aircraft is missing.” Gavdos is 23 miles south of the western end of Crete. TREACHERY ALLEGED BRITISH BRIGADIER’S CHARGE. LONDON, October 13. The serious charge of Italian treachery against British prisoners is made in a letter from Brigadier R. G. Mountain, D.S.O, who was removed from a prisoners’ camp in Bologna to Germany three days before the Allies landed in Italy. Writing to his father in England, Mountain says: “The Italians definitely sold us, They never gave us a chance to get away.” The “Daily Mail” states that relatives of the men concerned are pressing for a full Allied investigation. Official inquiries are already being made to establish the identity of Italian camp officials who stood by while this act of treachery was carried out. ITALIAN INTERESTS SWITZERLAND TO CONTINUE ROLE. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. There is no likelihood of the Badoglio Government being represented in London, says the “Exchange Telegraph’s” political correspondent. Switzerland will probably continue to represent Italian interests.