GERMAN CONTROL.
OF ITALIAN FLEET. LONDON, Jan. 19. Hitler insisted that German naval officers' should take charge of the Italian warships betorc any attack was made against Malta. This was passed on to Admiral Riccardi by Admiral Raeder, when the two Axis naval chiefs conferred recently, says the Daily Mail’s Madrid correspondent. German staff officers and gunnery and navigating officers for all ships down to destroyers and submarines are being drafted to the Mediterranean to organise co-operation between the Italian fleet and the Axis air forces. Hundreds of officers from bottled up ships like the Scharnhorst, Gneiscnnn, and Prinz Eugen are already in Italian ports ready to take over!
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 43, 20 January 1942, Page 5
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