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ITALIAN CRUISER OTHER SHIPS ATTACKED (British Official Wireless.) ill a.m.) .RUGBY, April 7. The Admiralty has announced that a British submarine attacked an Italian cruiser of the Regolo class in the Straits of Messina. The noise of a heavy explosion followed the attack, the full effects of which were not observed. Other submarines operating in the Mediterranean torpedoed two tankers and a medium-sized supply ship. One of the tankers was intercepted near Cape Spartivento, Italy, while proceeding under air and sea escort. The other tanker was torpedoed while being towed off the north coast of Sicily, and the supply ship formed part of a convoy attacked near MaritLimo. Noisy but ineffective enemy counter-measures made it impossible to observe the full results of these attacks, but at least one tanker is believed to have sunk.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 3
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