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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 11

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Italian Air Raid Or Alexandria PEOPLE’S ANXIETY ENDED

LONDON, August 22. Alexandria reports that the city was bombed today for the first time for a week. The raid lasted half an hour. Slight damage was done, but there were no casualties.

The anxiety aroused by the early raids has entirely disappeared. People are returning to the city at the rate of 500 a day.

The fact that raids are more. infrequent is proof of the effectiveness of the British attacks on the Italian bases.

A Royal Air Force communique from Cairo states: —

“Bombers raided Tobruk harbour on Tuesdav night and scored direct hits on naval oil tanks on the foreshore and a jetty. Other bombers successfully attacked aerodromes at Tobruk and El Aden.

“Three Savoias were seriously damaged during a raid on Sidi el Thini on Wednesday. “AU our machines returned safely. “We also attached a seaplane jetty at Bomba and scored a direct hit.' Raids on Abyssinia.

A message from Aden states that the Royal Air Force, raiding over Abyssinia, heavily bombed the Italian ait' base at Dessie. Direct hits were made on the aerodrome and buildings. All the British planes returned. Heavy attacks were also made ou hangars and the railway station at Diredawa, direct hits being observed. One British plane was shot down. The Royal Air Force announces that in the attack on Sidi el Thini one of the grounded Italian bombers was set on fire and exploded, a second was burnt out, and a third had its wings blown off. There were also a number of near misses which probably caused damage to other enemy aircraft. In the raid on Bomba direct hits were registered on a seaplane jetty. South African and Rhodesian aircraft carried out numerous offensive reconnaissance flights over Italian Somaliland. Direct hits were made on a jetty and a hangar at Mogadiscio, while at Merka one Caproni on the ground was damaged.. Direct hits wore also registered on buildings. All the planes returned safely. A Nairobi communique states that ground patrols were again active in the northern frontier district, gathering most valuable information.

FEW BOMBS DROPPED

Alexandria Again Raided

LONDON, August 23. . Italian planes raided Alexandria again early this morning. The raid lasted nearly an hour, but clouds obscured their objectives and few bombs were dreplied.

ITALIAN VICTORY

Hungary’s Congratulations

LONDON, August 22.

Rome announced that the Hungarian Premier, Count Teleki, telegraphed to Mussolini his congratulations on “the glorious Italian victory iu Somaliland.” Count Csaky, the Foreign Minister, sent a similar telegram to Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister. An Italian High Command communique states: “Italian bombers attacked military objectives at Gibraltar One of our planes failed to re-

turn. “A torpedo-boat sank an enemy submarine in .the Eastern Mediterranean. A submarine torpedoed an enemy destroyer. Our air squadrons intensely bombarded enemy naval formations composed of several cruisers, which were repeatedly hit. Two of our native troops at Cocacia, in East Africa, shot, down an enemy plane."

GERMANS IN HOLLAND

Not Conquerors, Says

Berlin

LONDON, August 22

Berlin radio said that, the Germans did not come to Holland as conquerors. The country would be preserved as a territorial entity.

SOUTH AFRICANS ASKED TO HELP DUTCH

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 22. Dr. 11. D. Van Broekhuizen, South African Minister at The Hague at the time of the German invasion, in letter asking all South African churches to make a special collection in aid of “the oppressed and subjugated people of the Netherlands, writes: “I feel that, tlie history of South Africa is so closely connected with the house of Orange and the people of the Netherlands that it k our duty to help.”