MYSTERY "RAID"
REPORTED CASUALTIES IN
ROME
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, July 27,
A Cairo message says it was stated officially by R.A.F. headquarters that no R.A.F. aircraft of that command was in the vicinity of either Gaeta or Rome on the night of July 24. This statement has reference to a curious occurrence in Rome in which civilians are reported to have been injured by splinters from an anti-aircraft barrage put by by the Italians. Other reports mention an alarm from the Gaeta naval station, 74 miles noth-west of Naples, as the cause of anti-aircraft gunfire. Accounts of the raids issued by the German official news agency omitted to mention the fact that casualties were caused by anti-aircraft gun splinters and not by bombs.
Since no British aircraft were involved, the "raid" is something of a mystery, and some commentators are inclined to explain it by the wish of Germans and Italians to provide stories of civilian casualties as advance "justification" for large-scale air attacks on the civil population of Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 8
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