NAPLES RAIDED
FIRES CAUSED
SHIPPING ATTACKED.
(Per British Official Wireless.#
(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, December 16.
Further information regarding Saturday night’s R.A.F. attack on Naples is given in an R.A.F. Middle East communique this afternoon. It states that a very heavy and successful raid was carried out by long-range bombers on Noples, during the night of December 14/15. Bombs burst on the jetty to which battleships were moored, causing fires whicli burnt for a considerable time. Eire direct hits were made on a concentration of cruisers and destroyers, resulting in four large explosions. One of our aircraft dropped an entire bomb load close to a battleship. At the same time the aerodrome was raided and fires started. The railway station and junctions were attacked, .resulting in three -Iprgo explosions, followed by a number of fires. A VIOLENT ATTACK. , W (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.) GOTHENBURG, December 16. The Danish newspaper “Berlin Gskctende’s”’ Rome correspondent describes the British raid on Naples as the most violent thus far, against any Italian city.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1940, Page 5
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