SUBMARINES’ TOLL
ITALIAN WARSHIPS TWO PROBABLY SUNK TWO VESSELS TORPEDOED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 23. An Admiralty communique states: “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 a large area of the sea in the 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 w ith two torpedoes and probably sunk, while two enemy supply ships were torpedoed. All these successes were in the central Mediterranean.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 25 November 1941, Page 9
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