STORY BEHIND THEM
NAZI TROOPS SOUGHT
ON ROUTE TO TRIPOLI
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
LONDON, October 27. Thousands of Germans with tanks, guns, and ammunition have been arriving at Naples throughout October for shipment to Tripoli. Now they are being driven out of Naples, says the Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Express," telling the story behind the RJ\..F.'s
four-night blitz against Naples,
The R.A.F. waited till a heavy concentration was gathered. The Germans began last week to embark in Italian freighters and liners. Then in cloudy, moonless nights the R.A.F. swooped with Britain's heaviest bombers, carrying bombs which leave a man dazed for 24 hours if he is within 500 yards when, they explode.
The waterfront at Naples is still burning and the harbour is temporarily untenable for big ships. Moonlight has now returned, helping the R.A.F., and the Italians have no night fighters.
The R.A.F. also paid attention to Naples railway station, so that the Ger-, mans are now bombed when they reach Naples, bombed while awaiting embarkation, bombed and torpedoed en route to Tripoli, bombed at Tripoli, and bombed when they arrive in the Western Desert.
The bombing is steady, heavy and increasing. The voyage from Naples to Sollum must be the most dangerous in the world.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1941, Page 7
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