BOUND FOR EGYPT
BIG BRITISH CONVOY STRONG ENEMY ATTACKS SINKING OF CARRIER (2 p.m.), LONDON. Aug. 12, The German coipunique states .that a U-boat hit the British aircraft car-, rier H.M.S. Eagle with four torpedoes and sank her. The Eagle was part of a strongly-escorted, convoy in the western Mediterranean. The Berlin radio reported that since Tuesday evening strong German and Italian air formations and submarine forces have beeil fighting fl large British ccnVoy in the western Mediterranean. escorted by the bulk o! the British Mediterranean fleet. The Rome radio, boasting of the sinking of the Eagle, stated that the convoy which she whs assisting to protect was the largest that the British had attempted to send through the Mediterranean. An Italian communique announces that the Royal Air Force last night i raided Catania in Sicily, and several localities in the province Of Cagliari in Saridnia.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 4
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