SUCCESSFUL ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 11

SUCCESSFUL ATTACK

BRITISH SUBMARINE

ITALIAN SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received December 21, 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, December 20.

An Admiralty communique announces that the submarine Truant operated successfully against Italian sea communications off the south of Italy on the night of December 13----14, and attacked a convoy of heavily-laden supply ships at Cape Spartivento.

One of the ships was sunk and a second possibly sunk.

On the following night the Truant torpedoed and -sank a large Italian tanker off the Calabrian coast. The tanker was deeply laden and steering south.

the next ridge. These withdrawals are taking place along a 20-mile front.

That night I spent in a snow-covered village; No one had a fire, for the peasants had no chance to gather wood. There were six Italian mortars in the room in which I slept, and boxes of captured ammunition in an adjacent room.

The following morning it was snowing so severely on the mountain above that it was impossible to see the summit, but the journey was not so severe as that of the previous day, because, after a morning in which I hitch-hiked on army lorries, which seemingly hung over precipitous drops in the hands of Providence, I finally reached a surfaced road, on which the mountains were pouring melting snow and landslides.

I crossed the Albanian frontier to Greece for the first time in ten days, and going inland I encountered villages, once in the front line, but now settling down to normality. Food was plentiful, women were reappearing in the village shops, and damaged buildings were being repaired.

The weather's only blessing is that it prevents aerial bombing,