BOMBING RAIDS IN ALBANIA

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23177, 14 November 1940, Page 7

BOMBING RAIDS IN ALBANIA

BRITISH AND GREEK ATTACKS ENEMY ' BASES HEAVILY DAMAGED (Received November 13, 7 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. Yalorte, On the Albanian cofigt, received another hammering from Royal Air Force bombers yesterday, .according to a Royal Air Force, communique issued in Cairo. Bombs feu in thi Idock area, hitting a large building. It was not possible to observe the full damage, but the attack was pressed home in the face of intense anti-air-craft fire. British bombers completely destroyed a depot for combustibles at the chief Albanian port of Durazfco last night, causing a fire which WaS visible for 100 miles. They also blew up a munitions depot. Royal Air Force bombers sighted three large ships oil fire 15 miles from Valona. They may have been towed to sea after Greek bombers had attacked them on Sunday. It has been reported from Athens that the Itali&n Air Force is repeating , its attacks on centres of civilian population. Orte raid was carried but bfi Corfu, where there were four deaths. Other machines flew low find machinegunned women and children ift the fields. A Router message frpVn Athens tonight says that British bombers again raided Albanian bases to-day. Reconnaissance flights were carried out yesterday over the lonian Sea, Taranto, and other Italian ports. Fighter patrols Were Out over Greece, There were no Italian raids on Greece today. Italian airmen bombed an English cemetery in the Kilkis district in the course of wanton raids on places of no military importance whatever, states k Greek communique. Villages and hamlets in the Epirus district were attacked, and in one village enemy airmen swooped down on the very* roofs of the houses. In addition to machinegunning, they dropped hand-grenades on the inhabitants. The morale of the population, however, remains excellent.

An Italian communique says that Italian aeroplanes bombed Jaaitta, Kastoria, Corfu, Larissa, find Lakd Presba.

EAST INDIES OIL’ i FOR JAPAN

DUTCH COMPANIES’ ; AGREEMENT (Received November 14, i.30 a.m,) BATAVIA, November 13. An agreement covering the sale of Dutch East Indies oil to Japan has been initialled by representatives of the Mitsui &fta Royal Dutch Standard and Vacuum companies in the presence of a Dutch official representative. Under the agreement. Japan will receive a substantial increase in supplies Of gasoline and oil. It had been agreed before the negotiations that the Dutch would 480,000 tons of crude oil and 100,OWJ tons of gasoline to Japan, and the negotiations add 280.000 tons of crude oil and 440,000 tons of oil products.