LOSSES OF PLANES
Week's Bombing Raids
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 31, 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, December 30
During tha week ended at midnight on Saturday the Germans, in their raids on London, lost seven planes—two in the early hours of Sunday, December 22, three on the night of Monday-Tuesday, one during Tuesday, and one on Christmas Day.
During the same period no British fighters were lost. Five British bombers were lost in the course of widespread and heavy attacks over enemy and enemy-occu-pied territory—one on the night of Monday-Tuesday, one on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, one on the night of Thursday-Friday, and two on the night of Friday-Saturday.
west of Tepelini along the road to Valona. The Italians made a counterattack in the Pogradetz area, which the Greeks repulsed.
In Athens the official spokesman referred last night to the defeat of another Italian attempt to halt the methodical , Greek advance which is being made quietly and efficiently under the most difficult conditions of country and weather. According to this statement some Bersaglieri troops were brought specially by aeroplane from Italy to make a counter drive along the road from Berat towards Klisura i and Kelcyre. The Greeks are at Dobrushe, a village some fifteen miles j south-east of Berat. The Bersaglieri' were heavily defeated by the Greeks. LONDON, December 30. It is believed that the Greeks are! attempting to. gain command of the terminus of the railway from the northern Albanian port of Durazzo. Advances have been made west of Tepeleni, and if the Greeks can obtain command of the crossroads at Berat and the crossroads about 10 miles south-east ofr their latest capture the Italians will have only a single road leading from Tepeleni along which to retreat or bring up supplies.
It was announced in Athens this meaning that 88 people were killed in Italian raids during the second month of the war, which is considerably less than during the first month.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19401231.2.69
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8
Word Count
324LOSSES OF PLANES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.