“ITALIANS WIN BOAT RACE” SAYS NEWSBOY”
1 r LONDON, Thursday. 1 Apt comments on the Italian naval , retreat in the Mediterranean were • provided by London newspaper vendors, j who, since posters were banned bec.iu e ot paper rationing, have used black- \ boards on which they chalk their own < “posters.” On-? of the Fleet street sellers gave P the news of the naval skirmish in Inc Mediterranean the lull “Italians Wm ‘ Boa t Race.” An< 1 the city M wrote: “Naval Battle in Mediterranean ■ c —ltalian Stokers Win.” A West End vendor wrote: “Mediler- I : ranean Battle—Dose of Royal 1 Navy for i Castor Oil Ships” (a reference to the , " Fascist atrocitie : those who disagreed with them), and I another, “Italian Navy Hons It—Hope ! f , We Get ’Em.” Such of the cable news tn this Issue *8 is so headed has appeared tr. "The rimes” and is sent to ibis paper by •pecial permission It should be under * 'tood that the opinions are not those of ‘ ‘The Times” unless expressly slated to n Oe sa. • n(
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 31 July 1940, Page 6
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