“DEVILISH CHEEK”
VICTORY OF H.M.A.S. SYDNEY THE ITALIAN VIEWPOINT The “ devilish cheek ” of the Australians, and the fact that the British, anyway, never admit that they j can be beaten, was responsible for the British naval victory recently off ! Crete, when H.M.A.S. Sydney sank , the more heavily armed Italian j cruiser Bartholomeo Colleoni, says a London paper. This is how a senior officer of the Italian cruiser himself sees it. This officer is now detained somewhere in Egypt, and it is learned that in describing the Crete engagement he declared that the Italian ships j were technically superior and they were expecting an Italian victory. What they were not expecting, he said, was the devilish cheek of the Australians, who rushed into the fight with the greatest contempt for the enemy’s longer range. After being ten minutes under fire of the Italian guns, they in turn opened fire and almost immediately hit the Bartolomeo Colleoni in a vital spot. From that moment the battle was over.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 9
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166“DEVILISH CHEEK” Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 9
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