RAID AND COUNTER-RAID
THE MIDDLE EAST
ENGAGEMENT OVER MALTA
(Official Wireless and U.P.A.) (Received September 28, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. The R.A.F. reports from Cairo that enemy fighters flew over Malta on Wednesday and were engaged by ! R.A.F. fighters. As a result, one enemy 1 aircraft was shot down, the pilot being killed. Another probably was shot down and a third enemy fighter is believed to have been severely damaged by antiaircraft fire. A Cairo communique reports that Italian planes raided Haifa. There were no casualties and no damage. A message from Jerusalem says that Haifa's perfected ground defences harassed the raiders who, after dropping their bombs, streaked out to sea towards their base in the Dodecanese Islands. It was the second raid on Haifa in five days. R.A.F. bombers raided Solum yesterday and bombed an Italian camp and an aerodrome, where three planes were hit. An Italian • communique states: "British planes attacked Italian troops. Italian planes bombed British troops on the Sudan-Abyssinian frontier and also at Atbara."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 11
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