ALPINE FIGHTING.
ITALIAN COMMMUNIQUE. ROME, June 14. An Italian communique states: “Italian troopers made contact with French soldiers for the first time in the Alpine region along the ItaloFrench frontier when a French attempt to Capture a mountain top in Galisia in Italian territory was thrown back.
“In the centre of the Mediterranean the Italians sank two enemy submarines and seriously damaged another. “Italian aviation bombed the region of Tunisia and machine-gunned French ’planes, also bombed the air base at Fayence (north-west of Cannes) All but one of the Italian ’planes returned to. their bases. “Enemy attempts in North Africa against Italian outposts on the Egyptian frontier were repulsed. Italian aviation destroyed a number of enemy tanks. Italian aviation bombed Port Sudan and the port and airport at Aden, in which the Italians lost two aeroplanes. “The enemy attempted to cross the Ethiopian frontier near Moyale, coming from Kenya, but were repulsed. Enemy aviation bombed various points in Eritrea with slight damage.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 7
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