ALLIED CONVOY BLASTED
SEVENTEEN SHIPS LOST ENEMY RAID ON BARI HARBOUR City’s Defences Taken By Surprise Two Ammunition Vessels Explode . London, Dec. 16. The United States Secretary for war, Mr Stimson, lias given further details of a German air attack on Allied shipping in Bari harbour on the east coast of Italy. The attack caught an Allied convoy and the explosion of two ammunition ships caused great damage. In all 17 merchant ships were sunk, but many of them had completed the discharge of a big part of their cargo. There were a thousand Allied casualties and supplies for the Eighth Army were lost. The Washington message says the German bombers came over the Bari area at down, flying very low, and very fast. They took the city’s defences by surprise.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13330, 17 December 1943, Page 5
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