ITALIAN SUBMARINES SUNK
(Rec. noon.)
RUGBY, Feb. 1
Recently, whil« escorting a convoy in the Mediterranean, the Port Arthur, a corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, located an Italian submarine which it attacked with depth charges and gunfire, and destroyed. Some survivors were rescued. —8.0. W.
While an Italian submarine was taking a number of American and British officers to prison in Italy, British destroyers shelled and sank it, and rescued the prisoners, who were halfdrowned. They were taken to Malta, and some have since returned to their units in North Africa.
One was an American pilot who crash-landed his Lockheed near Zenuia, in Tripoli, after his machine had been damaged by flak. He was captured by the Italians after he had set fire to his machine, and was put in gaol in Tripoli and fed badly for two days before he was taken off with other officers in a big transport submarine. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 5
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