RAID ON SARDINIA
NAVAL AIRCRAFT
POWER SUPPLY SOURCE BOMBED
LONDON, February 3
The text of an Admiralty communique about a raid on Sardinia is as follows: —
"Yesterday morning naval Swordfish aircraft carried out a successful attack on one of the main sources of power supply in Sardinia."
This raid is admitted in today's Italian High Command communique, which says that our planes dropped bombs and aerial torpedoes. A number of bombs fell on a dam in the River Tirso, which rises in the centre of the island and has its mouth on the west coast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 29, 4 February 1941, Page 8
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95RAID ON SARDINIA Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 29, 4 February 1941, Page 8
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