ITALIAN PLANES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7

ITALIAN PLANES

DESTROYED ffi RAF.

FRENCH ALSO ACTIVE

BOMBING RAIDS

(By TelegrapUr—l Jresa' Association—CopyrtßJu. »> (Received: June 21,. noon.) LONDON, June 20i A communique issued in Cairo states that. R.A.F. bombers and fighters off the Egyptian coast destroyed three Italian planes and probably two others. One of~~the Brttish fighters is missing. The South African Air Force bombed and machine-gunned nine enemy planes dispersed around Lavella Aerodrome in Italian East Africa, destroying two and damaging three. It also shot down two others.

Six enemy planes were set ore fire at Eritrea, making 15 Italian aircraft lost in the past 24 hours.

The Havas news agency reports from Algiers that French troops in North Africa made.contact with enemy troops on the Tunis-Libyan border.

The French. a& force in. Africa is very active. It successfully bombed Tripoli and Cagliiari. Italian raids on. French territory met with little success. A message, from. Jibuti states that revolts against the Italians are reported to be beginning in, each province of Abyssinia. The damage done by the Royal Air Force to the Italian bases has convinced the Abyssinians of Britain's superiority. Italian planes, visit Jibuti four times a day without dropping, bombs. An Italian war communique says that an Italian submarine torpedoed and sunk, a 2500-ton French destroyer.. Corsica was continuously bombed from the air yesterday. Italian, aviation is very active in Africa.