NOT SMOKE SCREEN
MEDITERRANEAN ATTACK
(Rec. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 15.
The Admiralty announces that the Fleet Air Arm sank an 8000-ton enemy supply ship and also set fire to a destroyer in the Mediterranean. The merchant vessel blew- up and the destroyer was last seen with clouds of smoke pouring from it. The pilots confirmed that the smoke was not a smoke screen.—U.P.A.
GERMAN AIR CLAIMS
(Rec. 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 15,
The official German news agency claims that German bombers on May 14 attacked targets in the Midlands and on the east coast. A direct hit was scored on the Nottingham locomotive works. The Waddington aerodrome and shipping in British and Atlantic waters were also bombed.— U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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119NOT SMOKE SCREEN Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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