BLOWS AT SHIPPING
SUPPLIES FOR AXIS TOLL IN' MIimfEREANEAN (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 5. The Admiralty states that British and Allied submarines continue their successful attacks on enemy shipping in the Mediterranean. A submarine under Lieutenant Maydon twice torpedoed a large supply ship, and a medium-sized ship was torpedoed and sunk off the Libyan coast by a submarine under LieutenantCommander Hipkins. A Greek submarine under Lieutenant-Commander Ralwis torpedoed and sank another supply ship. A Cairo communique reports that on Saturday nigbt our patrols were active in all sectors. On the same night torpedo-carrying aircraft scored a direct hit on the centre of a medium-sized vessel in a southbound convoy in the lonian Sea. One fighter aircraft was lost in the delcnce of Malta.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 263, 6 October 1942, Page 5
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