IMPORTANT POSITIONS
SUCCESSES AT SEA
BIG STEAMER SUNK
fßy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received February 3, 10 a.m.)
ATHENS, February 2.
It is officially announced: "We launched successful local in various sectors, occupied important positions, and- icaptured automatic arms, mortars, and all sorts of material and 270 prisoners, including officers."
The submarine Papariicolis torpedoed and sank an Italian steamer of 10,000 tons which warships were escorting off Btindisi. An unidentified submarine .on the Dalmatian coast sank an Italian tug. which was towing a large armed barge for Albanian coastal defence. Fifteen men were drowned. The barge was then towed into a Yugoslav port.
Italian air attacks during the third month of the war, ended on January 28, killed 67 civilians, including 21 women and children, wounded 93 persons, and destroyed 160 homes, 50 refugee houses, and five churches, and hit three schools and four hospitals.
British aid to Greece is not confined to war material but includes many consignments of food and clothing, such as 2,000,0001b of bully beef, 2,200,0001b of rice, 350,000 pairs of boots, 120,000 pullovers, and 350,000 pairs of socks, besides 80 tons of medical equipment and 45 ambulances. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 7
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190IMPORTANT POSITIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 7
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