WELL-AIMED TORPEDOES
ENEMY WARSHIPS HIT
TWO POSSIBLY SUNK
(Rec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 23.
An Admiralty communique states that an enemy cruiser has. been torpedoed and possibly sunk by a submarine of the Mediterranean Fleet. When the cruiser was attacked it formed part of a force of three cruisers and three destroyers. Subsequent air reconnaissance showed that a large area of the sea in tlie locality where the attack was made was covered with oil, while only two cruisers were with the enemy force.
An enemy destroyer _ has also been hit with two torpedoes and probably sunk, while two enemy supply ships were torpedoed.
AH these successes were in the central Mediterranean. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1941, Page 7
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