GENOA EXPLOIT
PRAISE BY GAYDA
"NEXT TO LIGHT BRIGADE"
LONDON, February 11
It is revealed that in the bombardment of Genoa gunners of the heavy and light ships registered definite hits on the following targets:—Very large oil tanks, dry docks, the Ansaldo boiler and engine works, the main power station, railway marshalling yards, and the enormously important Ansaldo electrical equipment works.
Writing in the "Giornale d'ltalia," Signor Gayda says that the valiant deed of the Royal Navy will rank second after the Charge of the Light Brigade.
He asserted that mist (about which no mention is made by the British gunners) was a powerful ally since it not only preserved the British force from the fire of the Italian coastal batteries but successfully enabled them to escape when an Italian naval squadron arrived on the spot at high speed.
Rome radio has since put out a different version. It says the Italian fleet was cruising in the Sicilian Channel at the time and was not able to make contact.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1941, Page 7
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