NINE DAY’S TOLL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21067, 12 April 1943, Page 4

NINE DAY’S TOLL

62 EtiEiMY VESSELS TWO cruilers hit ATTACK BY~FORTRESSES (11 a.m.) LONDON, April 11. One,of the:largest numbers of Flying Fortresses eVpf employed anywhere heavily bqiiibed and scored direct hitft on the Italian cruisers Gorizia and Trieste, lying in La Maddelcn.% harbour, Sardinia, states an announcement from Allied headquarters in Algiers. The cruisers were damaged so severely that they are expected to bo immobilised, foi- the reriiainder of the Norfft African' campaign., Pnll re-" suits of-the attack Will not be .known until photographs taken during the raid ' are.. studied. . The.’ . Forttesses wore nndbf.tlie. command of MajorGeneral .T. Doolittle, who led the raid oh" Tpkib, The Moi-oecff .radid reports that pub Axis vessel was sunk' and another damaged in a naval engagement off' Bizerta. .

Royal Air Force lighter-bombers yesterday’ attacked an aerodrome on Lampedusa Island, between Sicily- and. Tunisia. They;, sighted an enemy convoy off the Tunisian' coast and attacked with the aid of flares. A flash was. seen from the stern of one slim which, was Idler seen with smoke pouring from it,... . The Algiers radio reports that the Axis, in the first nine days of, April, lost 62 supply ships in the Mediterranean.