SUBMARINE SUNK
AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER SUCCESS IN MEDITERRANEAN SYDNEY, 19th June. The Minister for the Navy, Mr A. G. Cameron, has had the pleasant duty of telling Australians of two actions in which their ships participated within the past week. One was the interception of the Italian liner Romolo by an Australian naval vessel, and the other was the sinking of an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean by an Australian destroyer. In releasing the news about the sinking of an Italian* submarine, Mr Cameron said that this, .vas the first engagement between the Royal Australian Navy and enemy warships in this war. It was a feather in the cap of the Australian destroyers in the Mediterranean , that the first time the enemy gave their, a chance they got him. To get in first with an enemy submarine at night, as the Australian , destroyer did, showed that hard- continuous training at a specialised job had reaped its reward.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 2
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