MEDITERRANEAN
ITALIAN CLAIMS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
ROME, July 15
An official communique states: “An Italian submarine in the Western Mediterranean sank an enemy destroyer. The submarine also said that the enemy air raid on Tobruk had caused neither victims nor damage. In East Africa Italian aviation lias successfully bombed Aden. “Oil a reeoimoitering flight, near Buna, an enemy contingent were ma-chine-gunned. Two enemy ’planes were destroyed on the ground. “The enemy made air raids on Assab which weru| resultless. One enemy ’plane was shot down.”
IRAN SHIP TORPEDOED. JERUSALEM, July 15. An Italian submarine torpedoed an Iranian ! 4 '-eighter vessed fifty miles from Haifa. Two members of the crow were killed. Eighteen others reached Haifa.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1940, Page 5
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