HIT AGAIN
THE ITALIAN NAVY
HEAVY R.A.F. POUNDING
(Rec. noon.) ; RUGBY, Feb. 17. , Italy's navy, already hard hit at Taranto and Cape Matapan, has sustained a further heavy pounding.
A Royal Air Force (Middle East) communique says: "Naval aircraft carried ou^ a successful attack on a strong formation of the Italian fleet in the central Mediterranean on Sunday night. Hits with torpedoes were scored on two cruisers and a destroyer. Another destroyer was probably hit. One of the cruisers was well ablaze at the stern shortly after the attack.' 1
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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