GERMAN BOMBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 12

GERMAN BOMBS

>" DROPPED ON BENGHAZI

ITALIANS ENRAGED

February 15, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, February 14. Raids by German, dive-bombers on

Benghazi since the British occupation have caused tremendous resentment - * among the 7000 Italians who are still there, says the Associated Press at Benghazi. One Italian mother, who -was running to a shelter with a baby in her arms, shouted "Haven't we had enough, without Mussolini sending

these Germans to kill us?" The cor- " respondent says that the dive-bombers " ' unloosed huge missiles attached to parachutes, but did comparatively little damage. One missile, dropped in a night raid that lasted' two hours, wrecked a vacant building, and the blast shattered windows and" blew out doors a quarter of a mile away. Another, landing in shallow water, caused a splash-three hundred feet high, drenching the streets some distance from the harbour. In another dawn raid, bombers machine-gunned the town and nearby airfields, causing little damage and no casualties. An armoured Hussar regiment which helped to cut off the Italian retreat from Benghazi" and now operating within Tripolitania, made contact with an Italian native camel corps, which; surrendered with J2OO camels and 60 horses. T* GREEKS TURN THE TABLES. A correspondent tells a story of how . 130 Greeks who were interned in a camp 80 miles to the south of Benghazi broke loose when the British armoured forces cut off the Italian retreat from the town. The Greeks seized arms from their guards, formed . themselves into fighting ranks, and '■.. surprised the Italian flank, inflicting \ ' . considerable casualties and rounding up nearly 3000 prisoners, including a general and a colonel.