FEEBLE DEFENCE BY GENOA
Naval Correspondents’ Description LONDON, February 12. Reuter’s special correspondent on board H.M.S. Malaya stated that during the bombardment of Genoa he saw neither Italian ships nor Italian aircraft. Planes attached to the squadron acted as spotters and there were no signs from the shore that the arrival of the ships had been detected. H.M.S. Malaya flew the same flag that she sailed under at the Battle of Jutland. Even when the Italian shore batteries replied after the British bombardment they were so inaccurate that the escorting destroyers abandoned the smoke screens they had started to lay. It was not till the afternoon that two Italian planes got through the barrage. They dropped two bombs which exploded in the sea about half a mile away. Another correspondent stated that it took the Italian shore batteries 15 minutes to reply to the British shells. The attempts of the Italian planes to attack the fleet were only half-hearted and were totally unsuccessful.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 119, 13 February 1941, Page 8
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